A “Pipes of All Types” bill circulating in the state Legislature would try to hold down project costs by preventing water utilities from specifying which types of materials must be used in pipe-installation jobs — setting up a fight with the engineers who usually make such decisions.

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A Milwaukee scientist who has found sewage migrating from old pipes through soil and into the storm-water lines that drain to lakes or streams says the problem is likely to elsewhere.

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A Wisconsin man armed himself with a handgun, convinced the banging and bumps he heard in his house were a sign that someone was breaking in. A woman who heard similar sounds rounded up her children and called 911.

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By Marie Rohde When Door County’s $30 million Justice Center opened in 2005, civic officials were aglow with pride. Within five months, center inmates took on a glow of their own, this one with a green hue most prominent after ...

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