Category Archives: State News

Wisconsin is one of several battleground states where Republican lawmakers have introduced bills making it harder to vote absentee. Opponents say the legislative packages are a form of voter suppressi...

A Wisconsin man is jailed on $500,000 bail for an Anoka County carjacking and chase that left one suspect dead and a police dog injured. 26-year-old Joseph Heroff of Hammond is charged with first-degr...

Funding to pay for upgrades to the outdated computer system used for unemployment benefits has made it through the Assembly and is headed for the Wisconsin Senate next. Governor Tony Evers has already...

Officials at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville say plans for five acres of solar panels could save the school up to 217,000 dollars-a-year. When completed it would be the largest state-owned sol...

Officials at the Apostle Island National Lakeshore say poor ice conditions will keep visitors out of the ice caves again. They say Lake Superior ice near the caves is unstable and rough. The coronavir...

The deep freeze that hit Texas shut down refineries, idling production, and is now being seen in higher gas prices in Wisconsin. Badger State pump prices range from $2.30 per gallon to $2.99. GasBuddy...

The capital budget proposal released by Governor Tony Evers Monday includes two-point-four-billion dollars for Wisconsin building projects. $1 billion would go to the University of Wisconsin System fo...

It isn't clear what the problem was, but you can't go around shooting at snowplow drivers. Janesville police arrested a Chicago man early Monday morning for doing just that. Va Clan Na'eem Thomas was ...

A former Wisconsin Badgers football star has entered a not guilty plea in Rock County Circuit Court to charges of first-degree intentional homicide. Marcus Randle El was first charged last year and ma...

Seven former Milwaukee Police Department employees say they are fired for no apparent reason on February 22nd, 2019. They say that's why they are suing former police chief Alfonso Morales. The group f...