Category Archives: State News

The search for a missing Wisconsin boy in the woods of the Upper Peninsula has come to a happy ending. Searchers located eight-year-old Nante Niemi Monday, noting that he was a little dirty, and a lit...

The suspect in the killing of the deputy in western Wisconsin had a history of violence, was a registered sex offender, and had been convicted of rape. Prison officials in Minnesota revealed Wednesday...

Republican Madison legislators are considering a new law that would offer funding to prevent suicides. Tomorrow's meeting of the Assembly Committee on Mental Health is scheduled to discuss the proposa...

The Assembly Speaker of Wisconsin is testing a new tax cut plan. Republicans will likely have a plan to reduce taxes in the next state budget by the end of the month, according to Assembly Speaker Rob...

Firefighters in Eau Claire say they were able to put out a garage fire on Saturday night, save the house, and make sure nobody was wounded. On Saturday night, it took place in a residence on the west ...

A St. Croix County officer was shot and died while conducting a drunk driving stop on Saturday night. Deputy Kaitie Leising was only 29 years old. According to investigators, the man she had stopped t...

Rural advocates from around the U.S. recently gathered to lay out policy priorities at the state and federal levels in hopes of making smaller communities better. The summit included representatives f...

The University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, and Agra Energy are operating Wisconsin's first commercial facility to turn manure into fuel for trucks and jets. The project started six years ago when Agra Ener...

Sizable funding will be given to UW-Eau Claire to study the stars. The institution will specifically receive a $526,00 National Science Foundation grant to research white dwarf stars. This summer's re...

More people drank more, according to University of Wisconsin researchers, during the coronavirus outbreak. According to the UW's School of Medicine and Public Health, a recent poll found that during t...