Senior living
- Assisted living waiting lists in northeastern Wisconsin can last a year. Here’s how to start your search.
- Socializing, exercising can help slow aging brain, study shows. Here’s where to find groups in Green Bay
- Falls in senior living facilities are on the rise; two new bills want to help
- Green Bay-area lawmakers trying to give residents more time to transfer senior living facilities
- A guide to finding a senior care facility in Wisconsin
- ‘It isn’t right’: Resident dies 3 weeks after transferring from Emerald Bay assisted living in Hobart
- Long-term care facilities are struggling to keep vulnerable residents on Medicaid across Wisconsin
COVID-19
- Wastewater tests show COVID peaked last month in Green Bay, ‘very high’ in Appleton
- Updated Novavax COVID vaccine has arrived in Green Bay. Here’s what you need to know.
- The updated COVID-19 vaccine to arrive in Green Bay today. Here is what you need to know.
- Three years later, hospitals still gets COVID cases but ‘they have less of an impact on our system,’ Bellin doctor says
- COVID-19 vaccine doses for children under 5 have begun arriving in Wisconsin. Here’s where they’ll be available.
- Only 1 in 3 residents got a COVID-19 vaccine shot in some areas in Brown County. Local health officials are trying to change that.
- Some Wisconsin hospital workers are protesting COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Can they be required to get shots?
- ‘It’s going to be a bad fall,’ Prevea CEO says as he urges the unvaccinated to get shots now before it’s too late
- Brown County doctors warn the spread of the Delta variant could lead to new mask rules if more people aren’t vaccinated
- Aurora BayCare explains why 191 doses of COVID-19 vaccine were tossed
- Brown County’s Black and Hispanic residents slowest to get COVID-19 vaccines. Here’s why, and who’s helping fix the problem.
- ‘Choose survival over tradition’: Sister of Bay Port teacher who died of COVID-19 pleads with people to be careful at holidays
- More than a third of state COVID tests were positive for the virus on Sunday
- ‘This shouldn’t have happened’: As COVID-19 deaths, hospitalizations climb, health care workers urge people not to ignore the virus
- Why U.S. meatpacking workers are vulnerable to coronavirus, and why the industry won’t easily change
- Two Green Bay hospitals are using survivors’ plasma to treat COVID-19 patients
- Prevea Health CEO recommends everyone wear homemade masks while working, shopping around others
Hospitals and medicine
- How Prevea, TitletownTech are bringing a medical robot to Wisconsin to help perform ultrasounds
- Is it heat stroke or heat exhaustion? Here are some safety tips as summer temperatures rise
- How Green Bay became a hub for genomic testing under MCW and UW-Madison program
- Proposed Medicaid cuts would impact mental health, substance abuse services in Brown County, experts say
- Green Bay police join Project Lifesaver to rescue people with cognitive disorders who get lost
- Hospital prices hard to compare in Green Bay, Appleton; updated transparency law should change that July 1.
- New pediatric, adolescent clinic from Bellin, ThedaCare, Children’s Wisconsin on target for summer 2025
- The Green Bay area is getting a micro-hospital soon. Here’s what you need to know.
- 2 NWTC students found a new antibiotic in soil at Pamperin Park. Here’s why it’s so groundbreaking.
- A De Pere teen was diagnosed with arthritis when she was 12. Now she’s off to college to help other kids cope.
- Thousands of flights later: Retired ThedaStar nurse remembers the beginning of flight nursing in Fox Valley
- Waupaca County woman shares her stiff person syndrome journey after Celine Dion’s diagnosis
- Domestic violence, bad grades, job loss, expulsion: Chronic hunger is more than just a grumbling stomach.
- What’s the matter with marijuana? For some people, it’s dangerous
Women’s health
- ‘Our angel’: Why a De Pere woman is walking for March of Dimes
- For health workers, Wisconsin Supreme Court race wasn’t about politics. It was about basic care.
- Doctors say Wisconsin’s abortion ban is making them delay or deny care in high-risk pregnancies for fear of legal consequences
- Wisconsin pharmacies say they have emergency contraceptives on hand, some cutting prices, limiting pills purchased
Weather
- After months of a dry winter, blizzard puts Green Bay above normal for snowfall
- Blizzard warning issued for Green Bay area; 10-15 inches of snow in forecast; list of closings, snowfall totals
- Storm headed toward Green Bay could dump 8-10 inches Saturday ahead of Packers playoff game
- Flooding forces some Green Bay residents to evacuate homes on East Shore Drive and near East River
- Wisconsin weather: Heavy rains in Green Bay area cause flooding, evacuations, road closures
- Green Bay sets rainfall record for September, inches toward wettest year ever
- Flash flood watch issued; heavy rain this week likely to make 2019 wettest year in Green Bay history
- Swath of destruction: Macrobursts on July 19 affected over 150 square miles
- Repairs are underway after weekend storms; thousands of Wisconsinites are without power
- Severe thunderstorms sweep Wisconsin again; tornadoes reported in Pulaski, Mosinee, Adams, Juneau, Tomah
- How dry is it? Rain in forecast could help lawns, crops, but 2021 has started out as one of the driest on record
Benita Mathew 