By Danielle Kaeding Wisconsin Public Radio Thirty-year-old Conner Andrews has swum in Lake Michigan since his childhood days vacationing in Door County. “It was always a huge deal for me…
Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News The number of people hospitalized because of amphetamine use is skyrocketing in the United States, but the resurgence of the drug largely has been overshadowed…
Jenny Gold, Kaiser Health News Some good news from the front lines of the heroin crisis: Half as many people tried heroin for the first time in 2017 as in…
By Yuki Noguchi/Side Effects It’s hard enough for employers to find workers to fill open jobs these days, but on top of it, many prospective hires are failing drug tests.…
By Christine Herman, Side Effects Wisconsin is among one of the hardest hit states by the opioid crisis. Yet, for five years in a row, Wisconsin along with every state…
By Shereen Siewert Suicide rates rose by nearly 26 percent in Wisconsin since 1999, according to a study released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The…
Paul Feldman FairWarning The victims include a Bible college student in Iowa who was bicycling home from work, a 13-year-old Michigan boy riding in his older sister’s car and a…
By Shereen Siewert WAUSAU — About 3.7 million gallons of raw wastewater, including human waste, flowed into the Wisconsin River during a recent sewer backup on the city’s southeast side,…
By Susan Perry/MinnPost Changing the cost to consumers of just seven types of food — making the healthful ones (like fruits and vegetables) cheaper and the unhealthful ones (like sugary…
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Green Bay and Brown County governments are setting aside money to deal with a rat problem in the city. Both are dedicating $5,000 in their…
By Raymond Neupert WAUSAU, Wis. – Wausau city leaders are looking to expand a ban on public smoking to include all of the city’s parks. The smoking issue was first…
Paul Raeburn/FairWarning On Oct. 26, 2005, Alfred Caronia, a sales consultant for a little-known pharmaceutical company based in California, met with a doctor to discuss promotion of one of the…
