The NEW News Lab is a collaboration among six newsrooms — FoxValley365, Appleton Post Crescent, Green Bay Press Gazette, Green Bay Press Times, Wisconsin Watch and Wisconsin Public Radio — to cover the most important issues affecting communities in Northeast Wisconsin. It is funded by Microsoft in partnership with the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Cities.      

Wisconsin Indigenous children separated from families at disproportionate rate

When child welfare officials decide a child is unsafe in their home, most people would agree they should be protected and removed from that...

“This is something we owe.” Madison church pays “voluntary tax” to...

The history of Indigenous peoples in Wisconsin is deep and abundant, yet it’s a history that has long gone glossed over without proper attention...

Appleton man arrested in assault of Black woman

An Appleton man is in custody after an apparently unprovoked attack against a Black woman Friday afternoon, some of which the victim caught on...