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Utah downwinder, advocate and playwright Mary Dickson is back from the ICAN Nuclear Ban Week in Vienna. Great Salt Lake news recap, FAQ and Lake Effect voices. Plus, Crossroads Urban Center's July Food Drive needs and Golden Celery Compe...

Dr. Jesse Ehrenfeld of the Medical College of Wisconsin talks about health care needs after the overtuning of Roe v. Wade.

Dr. Kathy King is the medical director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin and has spent the week working toward getting her license in Illinois to continue helping Wisconsin women access health care. She shares more about her concerns and next steps as an abortion provider.

Have some affordable fun in the sun this summer by investing in an above-ground pool from Amazon or Walmart.

A local community organizer talks about his experiences with gun violence, the people he’s lost, and his work helping other young people find new purpose in life. Then, we’ll learn about the history of the Ho Chunk Nation in Wisconsin. We'll hear music from Racine blues musician Stephen Hull. Plus, we'll learn how Chicago almost became part of Wisconsin.

For many LGBTQ couples like Jake and Nick, the path to parenthood is different compared to heterosexual parents. To help start their family, Jake’s best friend volunteered to be their gestational carrier, and the three of them worked with Dr. Kate Schoyer, a reproductive endocrinology and infertility specialist at Froedtert, to bring their daughter Eleanor into their world.

The festival season feels like its really getting back to normal with the return of Napervilles Ribfest, Taste of Des Plaines, Blues on the Fox in Aurora, Swedish Days in Geneva and the many concerts in the park, art fairs and cruise nights.

We'll explore how being incarcerated at a young age can impact mental health. We’ll visit the gravesite of Milwaukee’s only known Black lynching victim and see how the effort to memorialize him has come full circle. A culinary historian shares how he’s working to restore African Americans to the center of America’s barbecue history. Plus, we’ll speak with a father-son duo keeping the tradition of Latin music alive in Wisconsin.

RadioACTive's Lara Jones talks politics with Derek Kitchen and Jen Plumb, both of whom want to be the Democratic nominee for UT Senate District 9. Without a Republican challenger in the general election, the June 28th primary likely will...

We look at what’s happening at Wisconsin’s Election Commission and how it could impact the midterm election. Then, learn about a new app offering guided interactive walking tours through generations of Milwaukee’s LGBTQ history. We learn about the documentary Mama Bears, featured in the Oriental Theatre's Pride Month programming. Plus, learn why UW-Madison is one of the leading universities in recruiting Peace Corp volunteers.