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Thanks to a recent six-figure grant from a local service organization, Simpson Street Free Press — staffed by Madison area students — will be able to continue literary exploration.
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Thanks to a recent six-figure grant from a local service organization, Simpson Street Free Press — staffed by Madison area students — will be able to continue literary exploration.

The Wisconsin Newspaper Association honored the work of newspapers across the state during its 2025 Better Newspaper Contest Awards Luncheon on Friday, March 6, 2026 at The Madison Concourse Hotel in downtown Madison, Wisconsin.
The WNA Foundation on Thursday, March 5 celebrated Wisconsin’s outstanding student journalists, announcing the winners of its 2025 collegiate Better Newspaper Contest during the Branen Family Student Luncheon held as part of the 2026 WNA Convention at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison.

The WNA Foundation on Thursday, March 5 celebrated Wisconsin’s outstanding student journalists, announcing the winners of its 2025 high school Better Newspaper Contest during the Branen Family Student Luncheon held as part of the 2026 WNA Convention at the Madison Concourse Hotel in Madison.

Newspaper publisher Carlton DeWitt, former reporter and UW-Whitewater newspaper advisor Sam Martino, and former newspaper managing editor and current Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation President Scott Peterson were inducted on Thursday, March 5, 2026 into the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame.

State and local taxes paid in Wisconsin in fiscal year 2023 declined to just under 9.8% of all Wisconsin residents’ personal incomes, dipping just below the prior year’s low.

Caden Perry is leaving River Valley Media Group for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Connect team.

News/Media Alliance and America’s Newspapers on March 2, 2026 announced the launch of a new partnership designed to strengthen collaboration across the news publishing industry and provide additional benefits to their members.

Knowing your rights — and slowing down — can protect you after heavy snow, flooding, wind or hail damage, when contractors often go door to door promising quick, low-cost fixes.

Port Washington Mayor Ted Neitzke and Clerk Susan Westerbeke must give depositions in an open records case filed by a Town of Port Washington resident seeking information about the Vantage Data Centers Lighthouse Campus, Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Adam Gerol has ruled.