Category Archives: State News

Republicans on the legislature's joint finance committee are ending the UW-System's tuition freeze. That freeze had been in place for eight years. Wisconsin Democrats wanted the freeze to remain along...

State health officials say the seven-day average for new COVID cases in Wisconsin dropped below 300 for the first time since last summer. The Department of Health Services dashboard showed 282 new cas...

A Waushara County man will spend more than two decades in federal prison for distributing child pornography. The U-S Attorney's Office says 39-year-old Thomas Kerl of Redgranite was sentenced to 262 m...

Wisconsin's unemployment rate inched up a tenth to three-point-nine percent in April. The Department of Workforce Development reports total non-farm jobs rose by 9,300 last month and private sector jo...

Wisconsin could lose federal COVID relief funds if G-O-P leaders cut Governor Evers' proposed education budget. The Legislative Fiscal Bureau said Wisconsin might not qualify for more than $1.5 billio...

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is hiring investigators to review the 2020 presidential election in Wisconsin. Vos said he recognizes President Joe Biden narrowly won the state and is not trying to change ...

One of three people hurt in a crash involving a Wisconsin State Patrol vehicle in Eau Claire County did not survive. Sheriff's officers say 66-year-old Charles Mills, Junior from Virginia died of inju...

Republican lawmakers are explaining their objections to expanding BadgerCare. In a letter to Governor Tony Evers, they said broadening eligibility for the program would be too expensive. Republicans a...

A 33-year-old Milwaukee man is in custody in connection with a Tuesday night shooting at a strip club in Franklin. Police were dispatched to On The Border Gentlemen's Club shortly before 11 p.m. No em...

A man from Rhinelander is facing federal child sex trafficking charges. The US Attorney's Office says a grand jury indicted 35-year-old Paul Osterman for soliciting a 13-year-old Illinois girl for com...