Rob Ferrett

In a rural community in central Wisconsin with a mysterious past, there’s a shocking murder. At the forefront of the effort to solve the crime: the victim’s ghost. That’s the premise of a new supernatural mystery novel by Wisconsin author Isabelle Spotts. Comments This field is for validation purposes and should be left unchanged.

A Wisconsin festival featuring glass art is still on for this Saturday — after a very close call with a tornado and a quick change of location. The Fox Valley EF-3 tornado damaged the grounds of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah, as they were gearing up for their annual outdoor Glass Arts Festival. Damage on the grounds of the Bergstrom-Mahler Museum of Glass in Neenah, after the tornado on July 27, 2026.

As solar power makes up a bigger piece of our electricity puzzle, there’s a worry about a trade-off, especially in rural areas: If we build more solar farms, are we losing land for crops? But University of Wisconsin-Madison scientists are asking the question: Why can’t we have both? “Agrivoltaics” is a concept that brings together solar panels and food production in the same field, in a way that allows the two to work together.