Category Archives: State News

A Horicon man faces a half-dozen counts - including homicide by vehicle - for a 2021 fatal crash. Forty-seven-year-old Daniel Bryfczynski was driving a pickup truck pulling a boat in the town of Oak G...

Instead of building a meatpacking plant in the Milwaukee suburbs, Strauss Brands has decided to sell the land. A lawsuit had been filed to stop the $73-million project. The Franklin Plan Commission he...

The Legislature will take up a Republican package of election bills this week. One of them would require the Wisconsin Elections Commission to submit all guidance to the Legislature for approval. Anot...

U.S. Senator Ron Johnson says if Russian President Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine, "sanctions should be levied." Johnson was speaking at a Saturday event in Madison for the Republican Women of Dane Co...

The Wisconsin State Patrol reports ten people were injured in a 39-car pileup on U-S Highway 51 in Marathon County. The chain reaction collision happened at about 4:30 Friday afternoon. Investigators ...

A Milwaukee police officer has been fined for his role in a 2020 incident while he was off-duty. Matthew Willmann apologized for his actions in court Thursday. He had pleaded guilty last November to t...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced that they have extended the application deadline for their ReConnect Program. Applicants now have until March 9th to submit paperwork for fundin...

A group of nurses who want to unionize say they will picket outside next week's U-W Health Board meeting Thursday. They say they will conduct an informational picket for safe staffing, quality care, a...

At the beginning of the pandemic, Wisconsin's Department of Health Services (DHS) waived numerous requirements to participate in the state's food-aid program. Now, some lawmakers want to reinstate tho...

A federal judge has restored endangered species protections to gray wolves across much of the Lower 48, including Wisconsin. While conservation groups cheer the decision, some experts are urging state...