Milwaukee's Metcalfe Playfield features a splash pad and a lighted football field on North 33rd Street.

The storybook-inspired hideaway honors former City Librarian Paula Kiely. It's tucked outside the branch at 3912 S. Howell Ave.

Nearly 700 riders pedaled past zebras last year — this year's ride celebrates the zoo's new $22.6 million rhino and hippo habitats.

Milwaukee County celebrated the finished Bender Park link Thursday, a project two decades in the making that reaches back to a 2007 county trail plan.

Moss Universal Park will replace Wauwatosa's old Wisconsin Avenue Park with an adaptive ballpark, sensory playground and therapy spaces.

Peak fall migration sent millions of birds over Wisconsin, with warblers among the tiniest, most vulnerable travelers.

A free app helps people track butterflies, with Madison's Goose Pond Sanctuary among the tagging sites.

A new trail link connects the Lake Country and Interurban trails near Oconomowoc.

Governor Tony Evers and DNR Secretary Karen Hyun attended an August 31 event at Bad River as Wisconsin began its first Wild Rice Week, an observance tied to tribal treaty rights.

Over 700 dead deer reports have poured in as a midge-borne virus tears through southeastern Wisconsin herds.

A research associate says heavy acorn clusters are showing up across the state, but the real count won't be known until the nuts hit the ground.

Bender Park Friends gathered 422 petition signatures after sediment left the Oak Creek harbor as shallow as six inches this year.

Goat yoga, sound bowl healing and a free wildflower craft await at Lakeshore State Park's zero-waste festival.