Two weeks after shuttering his bid for Wisconsin governor, David Crowley reentered the state’s Democratic primary on July 18, with the Milwaukee County Executive announcing he received last-minute ...

When wildfires burn, smoke can travel long distances and degrade air quality far away, posing risks to those breathing it.

It is the emergence of a status envy ideology that shapes how Americans interpret their own lives and measure themselves ...

For children growing up in the early 1970s, Ultraman arrived without the prestige now attached to one of Japan’s most ...

Wisconsin’s eighth-place finish in the 2026 State of the States rankings offers the kind of headline any state would want. In ...

3.11 EXPLORING FUKUSHIMA: This feature is part of an original Milwaukee Independent editorial series that documented the 13th anniversary of the "Great East Japan Earthquake," tsunami, and nuclear ...

Former Milwaukee Judge Hannah Dugan was spared from prison July 8 for ushering a Mexican defendant out of her courtroom to ...

During the Depression-ravaged days of the 1930s, Wisconsin’s German-Americans faced a vicious campaign of harassment. One Milwaukee businessman received an anonymous postcard with a picture of an ...

Milwaukee’s reputation as a manufacturing powerhouse once defined its economic and cultural identity. But as industry collapsed and neighborhoods suffered decades of disinvestment, residents began ...

In recent years, political, and religious commentators have increasingly employed the term “Christofascism” to describe a fusion of extreme Christian Nationalism with authoritarian methods of ...

Milwaukee’s skyline tells a story of progress, with glass towers and tax-funded redevelopment projects that promise renewal. But beneath the glow of new construction lies a persistent reality: the ...