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09/28/2026

Interview: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Watch a talk with Jim Drees, the La Crosse County homeless response system manager for Pathways Home, about the city-county program's work finding housing and goal to assist all unhoused people in the community by the end of the decade.

Jim Drees on La Crosse's goal of achieving a 'functional zero' homeless population.

09/28/2026

Interview: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Watch a talk with Alder Michael Martens about work by the City of Wausau Government seeking to complete the replacement of about 3,000 lead service lines connecting water mains to buildings by the end of 2028.

Michael Martens on Wausau's goal to remove and replace lead services lines before 2029.

09/28/2026

Interview: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Watch a talk with Tom Content, executive director of Citizens Utility Board of Wisconsin, about the growing cost to heat homes as fuel prices increase and what homeowners can do to save money.

Tom Content on spikes in costs of heating fuels as utilities move to hike prices.

09/28/2026

Tribal leaders in the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and others living in Bayfield County question a federal bill to redesignate the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as a national park, reported in collaboration with Indian Country Today. Watch more "Here & Now" at https://pbswisconsin.org/news/ and on the PBS app, streaming devices, phones, tablets and smart TVs!

09/28/2026

Every day online scammers steal billions of dollars and ruin victims’ lives. Investigators trace the rise of a global criminal industry, the people and technology enabling it and the efforts to shut it down. Watch FRONTLINE | PBS at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 29, on PBS Wisconsin.

09/28/2026

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Mega-donors fund Republican candidates, gas prices cause growing economic pain, and corruption emerges as an issue — Inside Wisconsin Politics looks at how each development impacts the 2026 election.

Mega-donors fund Republican candidates, gas prices and corruption as an issue.

09/28/2026

Watch: 📺 🖥️ 💻 📱 Here's what guests on the Sept. 25 episode of "Here & Now" said about higher home heating costs, lead pipe removal in Wausau and finding shelter in La Crosse.

Projections for Wisconsin show rising prices for home heating fuel, and Tom Content of the Citizens Utility Board described ways homeowners can save money over the long run. Wausau is ...

09/28/2026

Explore Cuban singer Omara Portuondo's life, from the stages of Havana's nightclubs to her worldwide fame as part of the Buena Vista Social Club. Tune in to VOCES "Omara — Cuba's Legendary Diva" at 9 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, on PBS Wisconsin.

09/27/2026

In January 1991, Eau Claire's Uniroyal tire plant employees received devastating news: after 75 years of manufacturing tires, the plant was scheduled to close. As the city struggled to overcome the loss of its largest employer, the former employees struggled to find their footing in a quickly changing world. What would happen next was anyone's guess. But if the city hoped to survive, it was up to its citizens to figure out how. Watch "When Rubber Hit the Road" at 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 28, on PBS Wisconsin.

09/27/2026

“Madison Symphony at 100” on PBS Wisconsin commemorates 100 years of music from the Madison Symphony Orchestra and also marks John DeMain’s final performance as the orchestra’s music director.

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