As federal trappers remove thousands of beavers each year — including from prized trout streams — Wisconsin regulators face calls to weigh the critter’s flood-control benefits against long-standing…

As the cost of everything, especially energy, increases, nonprofit organizations stockpile wood to help neighbors stay home through winter.

The view from a small Dane County farm affected by Trump administration cuts to the Local Food Purchase Assistance program.

Jess D’Souza had hoped to finally turn a profit this year, aided by a federal program to bolster local food systems. The Trump administration canceled the program, upending her plans.

Journalist Bennet Goldstein discusses the ways that people are living with beavers and learning how to mitigate floods and drought from them.

Journalist Bennet Goldstein discusses the ways that people are living with beavers and learning how to mitigate floods and drought from them.

In Wisconsin and elsewhere, Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft are contracting with utilities, which face growing power demands.

Researchers are using aerial photos, taken by satellites, to teach computers to recognize winter spreading of manure in Wisconsin.

Environmental groups and policy analysts in the Mississippi River basin have looked to a cleanup program in Chesapeake Bay as a model.

The chickens do not slow down. Workers hang featherless bodies upside down onto hooks, cut the limbs and wings off the birds, and automated machines separate viscera from meat, slicing through 144 chi...

The Wisconsin Department of Corrections offers few details about the deaths, which coincided with a respiratory illness outbreak.

Competing proposals would protect “innocent landowners” — those who didn’t knowingly cause pollution — from liability under the spills law.

Gov. Tony Evers is proposing more funding to clean up toxic “forever chemicals” known as PFAS, while offering farmers more protections.

Beavers can cause property damage, but research shows they positively impact the environment. Some landowners are ditching traps and dynamite to peacefully manage the nuisance.

Experts call it incredibly difficult to document beavers in the wild. Could a team of Wisconsin Watch reporters succeed?

A bill that would empower Wisconsin municipalities to block the construction of solar and wind farms in their backyards has been introduced a second time.

A bill that would empower Wisconsin municipalities to block the construction of solar and wind farms in their backyards has been introduced a second time.

Jay Dee Nichols stamped and packed stiff willow branches between maple wood posts, with muffled crunches. At 63, the semi-retired handyman from the Wisconsin city of Black River Falls has trapped b…

Applying manure atop snow or frozen soil heightens the risk of runoff. Researchers are using aerial photographs — snapped by satellites orbiting the globe — to teach computers to recognize winter s…