Category Archives: State News

Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce is challenging the governor's assertion about federal unemployment benefits hurting businesses. Governor Tony Evers claimed there is no evidence the additional ben...

A northern Wisconsin man has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual assault of a child and plotting to murder the victim. Russell Wilson had been charged with assaulting the girl when inv...

The Department of Public Instruction has approved $13.5 million in funding for Wisconsin charter schools. State Superintendent Carolyn Stanford Taylor says the 19 federal grants help those schools wit...

The FBI Internet Crime Report shows a 69% increase in cybercrimes when last year is compared to 2019. Wisconsin businesses haven't escaped the online plague. Authorities received reports from more tha...

The city of Beloit is asking its residents to conserve water so it can help Illinois emergency responders fight the fire at a Rockton chemical plant. Officials say the fire at the Chemtool plant will ...

Former N-F-L player and Wisconsin All-American Thomas Burke is facing child sex abuse charges in northeastern Minnesota. The 44-year-old Burke of Rice Lake was arraigned Monday in Duluth for first-deg...

U-S Senator Ron Johnson says the company's actions show YouTube has too much unaccountable power. The Wisconsin Republican has been suspended from uploading videos to YouTube for seven days. Johnson i...

Beloit police say two people wanted for a homicide last week have turned themselves in. 19-year-old Damon E. Allen and 18-year-old Elontae M. Phiffer showed up at the Rock County Jail Friday morning j...

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says he "most likely" will veto legislation that would end the $300-a-week federal unemployment supplement payments. More than two dozen other states have stopped them sa...

Only a week after Governor Tony Evers announced his plans for reelection, a former Sheboygan City Alderman has thrown his hat into the ring. Job Edmond Hou-Seye served on the Sheboygan City Council fr...