A recent Wisconsin appeals court ruling regarding closed sessions has positive implications for government openness.

Waiver use has increased because the number of required vaccines and the legal protections given to vaccine manufacturers have “fueled skepticism about vaccine safety and testing rigor,” Wisconsin ...

Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee rejected calls to add more permanent staff and approved transferring $5 million in licensing fees to the general fund.

Jim Davel, administrator for Shawano County, Wisconsin, said the inclusion of his community must have been a clerical error. Davel voted for Trump as did 67% of Shawano County.

Building an underground tunnel for an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that stretches across a Great Lakes channel could destroy wetlands and harm bat habitats but would eliminate the chances of a boat ...

As of May 21, 2025, all Milwaukee County teens who are the county's responsibility and in Wisconsin youth prisons were Black ...

Yessenia Ruano worked to build a life in Milwaukee with family, a teaching career and church. She’s fighting to stop it from ...

County’s youth justice dashboard offers real-time data, but it does not currently provide some key racial demographics.

Adams County filed a lawsuit seeking to remove its county treasurer elected less than a year ago and replace her with the ...

A claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that an immigrant threatened the life of President Donald Trump has begun to unravel.

Clerks say GOP-backed legislation calling for a 20-hour minimum wouldn’t make sense in towns with only a few dozen voters.

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