Milwaukee WI

MILWAUKEE— Milwaukee leaders are launching a new effort aimed at helping residents clean up neighborhoods across the city. Alderman Russell Stamper, Alderman Peter Burgelis, and Alderwoman Sharleen Moore announced Wednesday a free yard waste bag distribution program through the ongoing Big Clean MKE Initiative. Officials say residents will be...

An after‑school bus ride for an 8‑year‑old Milwaukee girl ended with her standing at the wrong stop nearly a mile from home, according to her mother. A passerby found the child crying near 44th and Congress, used a contact sticker to reach the family, and the student then called her mother and made it home safely.

Nobody warns you that this state would completely ruin every other fish fry you would ever eat. Eight supper clubs, hundreds of miles of Wisconsin roads, and a growing realization that what you thought you knew about Friday night dining was embarrassingly incomplete. Crispy perch from a northwoods kitchen so...

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man accused of killing another man on the city's south side back in May 2025 pleaded guilty in court. The accused is 52-year-old Jonathan Caravello. He was originally charged with 2nd-degree reckless homicide. According to court records, on Thursday, May 7, during a plea hearing, he...

MILWAUKEE - Tamirat Mills, the man convicted in the 2022 homicides of two brothers in Brown Deer, was sentenced to life in prison on Thursday, May 7. Mills, 22, was found guilty at trial of two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of taking and driving a vehicle without the owner's consent.

The Sussex corner long ruled by butterburgers and frozen custard is about to start dealing in debit cards instead. The Culver's that has anchored a busy local intersection is moving to a new site, and its current building is set to be converted into a Chase bank branch, trading drive-thru meals for financial services.

Clark Williams and I walk the woods through Kenosha’s Petrifying Springs Park on a bright Monday, the April sun splitting the slender trees. Parents stroll their babies, joggers prattle past, and a lithe doe keeps her distance, all unaware Clark and I search the leaves for signs of human remains.

MILWAUKEE - A Milwaukee man is accused of shooting and killing a 32-year-old after a hit-and-run on the city's north side in April. Milwaukee County prosecutors charged 25-year-old Daniel Evans with first-degree reckless homicide and two counts of felony bail jumping. He's being held in the Milwaukee County Jail on $100,000 cash bond.

MILWAUKEE — The owner of a Milwaukee food truck is suing the City of Milwaukee over its new food truck curfew in the downtown area. Fatty Patty food truck owner Abdallah Ismail is one of many food trucks downtown that have expressed concern over the curfew that requires they close by 10 p.m. downtown.

Wisconsin state Rep. Jessie Rodriguez announced Thursday she will not seek reelection this fall, ending nearly 13 years representing the 21st Assembly District.