On a short version of Lake Effect, we learn how to apply for FEMA assistance for flood-damage, how the Milwaukee County Zoo keeps animals safe during severe weather, and journey to Guatemala's night sky.

What it means to be a Latino-American in 2025. A traveling artists visits Milwaukee farms with a hand-made watermelon couch. A documentary on a collegiate Acapella group competing to win a national title.

Federal cuts to a program that helped Milwaukee-area teachers incorporate local history. A new NPR podcast called “Sources and Methods.” Milwaukee band Chapped Lips joins us for an in-studio performance.

We check in with a homeowner who suffered damage during last month's flooding. A project in Milwaukee’s 30th Street Corridor aimed at reducing future flooding. Senator Tammy Baldwin discusses her “Go Pack Go Act."

A documentary about a daughter’s journey to learn about a mother she never got to know. Chimney Swifts and the fall migration of birds. An in-studio performance by local singer-songwriter Hillary Reynolds.

What's being done to prevent local suicide deaths. We learn about the victims of the 1886 Bay View Massacre. Highlights from Milwaukee Magazine’s Best of Milwaukee issue. Photographing the Great Lakes.

How improving bike safety and accessibility locally can be big wins for biking statewide. The ongoing battle over Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline in northern Wisconsin. What the National Weather Service provides for people in Wisconsin.

A new effort to raise Wisconsin’s minimum wage to twenty dollars an hour. The waiting game around the presidential disaster declaration after flooding in Milwaukee. A former Wisconsin governor shares his journey caring for his wife as she developed Alzheimer’s.