With the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin sitting near record lows, the bill aims to ease staffing shortages with grants to help pay for the training of new hires. But it faces an ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a GOP-backed challenge to a decades-old campaign finance law that limits how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal office.

A handful of legislative Democrats supported the Wisconsin State Budget. In exchange, they got funding bumps to the UWs, public schools and child care, angering some on the left who wanted more.

Ted Gregory senior editor Ted is a former general assignment reporter at the Chicago Tribune who, as part of a team of six reporters, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He also ...

With the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin sitting near record lows, the bill aims to ease staffing shortages with grants to help pay for the training of new hires. But it faces an ...

With the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin sitting near record lows, the bill aims to ease staffing shortages with grants to help pay for the training of new hires. But it faces an ...

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Elon Musk joins the usual billionaire donors in Wisconsin politics: the Uihleins, Diane Hendricks, George Soros and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker, along with many others dumping huge sums into political ...

More than 30 states released their full list of cops. But not Wisconsin. The state Attorney General’s office denied a records request late last year from a group of news media outlets seeking the ...

Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin joined nine other Senate Democrats urging President Donald Trump to revive his 2016 campaign promise and pressure the GOP congressional majority to close a loophole in the ...

In the November election in Wisconsin, a question on the ballot asked voters if the state’s constitution should be amended to order that “only” American citizens age 18 or older may vote. Voters ...

The Democratic Party of Wisconsin has raised nearly $57 million this election, and is showering its candidates with cash. The state Republican Party has raised only about $29 million. Here are the ...