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Asian-American shoppers are stockpiling rice amid the COVID-19 pandemic, while other shoppers are hoarding and stockpiling on tissues and toilet paper. “It feels like people were preparing for an apocalypse,” said Dustin Her, an employee at Hmong Town Market in Milwaukee. “They keep coming and buying all the rice. We’re only left with the unpopular […]

On March 12, the NCAA released a statement from President Mark Emmert and the Board of Governors to cancel Men’s and Women’s Division I basketball tournaments as well as winter and spring NCAA championships. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee baseball team was just getting their season started as everything comes to a complete stop due to […]

Milwaukee food banks are playing a vital role in relieving hunger in struggling communities. In the wake of Gov. Tony Evers’ extended safer-at-home order, organizations such as the Riverwest Food Pantry, Feeding America, and the Hunger Task Force, which typically rely greatly on in-person volunteerism to run day-to-day operations, have needed to make adjustments in […]

The impacts of colorism, toxic masculinity, and racial profiling on the black community were only a few of the topics that were discussed at the well-attended ‘How Black is Black enough?’ panel hosted by the African Student Association. The Wisconsin room was packed with a diverse crowd of students, alumni community members, and Senator Lena […]

The water of the Milwaukee River cascading over the Kletzsch Park Dam in Glendale is first heard before it can be seen. One could mistake the dam for a natural waterfall rather than a man-made installation. Oak trees estimated to be more than one hundred years old stand on the west bank of the river, indicating the area’s rich history. Built […]

Milwaukee County may be turning over a green leaf with proposed legislation to eliminate single-use plastics in all county-owned properties by sometime next year. The goal is to reduce the amount of plastic waste in county parks and waterways by 50% in 2020 and reach 100% by 2021. As the snow melts and reveals plastic […]

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student journalists won dozens of top honors in competitive regional contests for multimedia news and feature stories published in 2019. With journalism awards ceremonies and conferences cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic, winners are being announced online. Society of Professional Journalists In the prestigious Society of Professional Journalists Mark of Excellence competition, […]

The scenes at the polls during Wisconsin’s unprecedented mid-pandemic election were very different depending on where you were. That’s what a team of student journalists learned when they spanned out to interview election officials – including county and city clerks and poll workers – throughout the state on the day after the election. In the […]

Across from Riverside High School, one of five polling places in Milwaukee holding in-person voting for the April 7 election, UW-Milwaukee student Abigail Klug watched from her apartment as a line formed near the school. What started as six or eight people became a several-hour wait by the afternoon, the line stretching behind the school […]

The body that Milwaukee Police pulled from the Milwaukee River last night has been identified by the Milwaukee County Medical Examiner as University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee student Sean Baek, 18, who had been missing for 45 days. Milwaukee Police said yesterday that they responded to a report of a body in the river near a pier […]

Photojournalist Derek Johnson documented bleak public spaces in Greenfield, Greendale and Mitchell International Airport in late March after residents were urged to stay home.