The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced that native plant sales are blooming across the state through April. This year,nonprofits and governments are offering online or mail order options with pickup at local sites for spring plant sales. Many of the native plant sales, offered by local nonprofits and governments, are fundraisers that help to provide habitat for wildlife.

Wisconsin driver licenses or IDs are the most common form of identification used for voting purposes. The Wisconsin Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is encouraging voters to check and be sure that they have the proper identification needed to vote in the next election on April 6.

PBS Wisconsin has announced the launch of “Why Race Matters,” a nine-part digital series focused on important issues affecting Wisconsin’s Black communities. In the new series, host Angela Fitzgerald interviews Black Wisconsinites about race, identity and achieving racial equity in the state.

As a continuation of its efforts to increase civic education and engagement, the Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation has launched the Wisconsin Civics Games Editorial Writing and Cartoon Contest. The contest will celebrate the rights established by the First Amendment.

As the COVID-19 vaccine rolls out, patients should also remember the importance of vaccinating for whooping cough – most importantly, the youngest patients of all. Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious, person-to-person bacterial respiratory disease. Its name comes from the gasping sound that adults and children make as they breathe deeply in between coughing fits.

For the past three decades, the PBS Wisconsin Garden and Landscape Expo has brought a touch of spring-like warmth and lots of gardening and landscaping inspiration to the middle of the cold Wisconsin winter. In 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 28th annual Garden and Landscape Expo will offer that same inspiration — and warmth of spring — in an online-exclusive, virtual experience Feb. 20-21.