Category Archives: State News

Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Madison say there is no threat to the campus after a report of a gunman at the school's law library earlier today (Wednesday). Police gave the campus the all-c...

Wisconsinites who get divorced would no longer have to wait six months to get remarried in a measure that awaits committee approval. The Assembly's Family Law panel held a public hearing on the bill f...

A 57-year-old man has died after being pulled from the Fond du Lac River. Police and rescuers from Fond du Lac were called just after 2:50 this (Wednesday) morning, after getting a report of an intoxi...

Two groups that have spent close to a century analyzing the effects of Wisconsin public policy are about to merge. Boards of the Wisconsin Taxpayers' Alliance and Milwaukee's Public Policy Forum have ...

We're now learning that a Green Bay man who drove the wrong way did a lot more than kill himself and two others in a head on crash last Friday night. Thirty-eight-year-old Todd Beyer cast a cloud at a...

For the second time in three years, U-W Superior is dropping a sizable number of academic programs. The school said Tuesday that more than two dozen programs in sociology, political science, theater, ...

Prosecutors say two men high fived each other after they broke into a house and beat, bound, and smothered a 76-year-old man to death. Police say the body of Kenneth Latus was bound underneath a blank...

A settlement has been reached in a wrongful death suit filed by the estate of a man killed when his motorcycle struck a cow in western Wisconsin. Fifty-six-year-old David Kelch of Arkansaw died April ...

The Wisconsin Senate has voted to make it illegal again for parents to host drinking parties for their teens' friends. Senators approved a bill Tuesday from Racine Republican Van Wanggaard, that nulli...

The Wisconsin Assembly is expected to vote tomorrow (Thursday) on a bill to end the state's 19-year-old moratorium on new sulfide mines. The Assembly's Labor Committee voted 6-3 Tuesday on a measure t...