MILWAUKEE (AP) — The majority of private wells in southwestern Wisconsin are substantially polluted with fecal matter as concerns intensify over pollution of rural drinking water, according to a new…
By Joe Kelly Courthouse News MADISON, Wis. (CN) – In a 4-3 decision along party lines, the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday upheld the GOP-controlled Legislature’s lame-duck laws limiting the…
By SCOTT BAUER and TODD RICHMOND Associated Press Eds: Updates with details on building budget, background. MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republicans on the Legislature’s budget-writing committee approved money Tuesday to…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislative leaders are thinking about splitting the state budget into two bills. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald tell Wispoltiics.com that…
By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson said Saturday he doesn’t support a federal law mirroring Alabama’s effort to ban most abortions.…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos has appealed a ruling that would force him to be questioned by attorneys representing Democratic voters in a federal redistricting…
By Analise Pruni, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Milwaukee Ald. Nik Kovac feels Wisconsin is “way behind the curve” when it comes to marijuana laws. The state is one of 17 …
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on a judge blocking Wisconsin Republicans’ lame-duck laws (all times local): Gov. Tony Evers is pulling Wisconsin out of a multistate lawsuit challenging the…
By Joe Kelly, Courthouse News MADISON, Wis. (CN) – A Wisconsin judge on Thursday temporarily blocked three controversial laws passed during a December lame-duck session in the GOP-controlled Legislature aimed…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican legislators began a push Tuesday to streamline Wisconsin’s water pollution credit-trading system, introducing a bill that would create a clearinghouse that they say would make…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Republican Assembly speaker says Milwaukee hosting the 2020 Democratic National Convention would be good for President Donald Trump. Speaker Robin Vos also told reporters Thursday…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is giving Democratic Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to legalize medical marijuana just a 10 percent chance of winning approval in the…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Attorney General Josh Kaul has rejected Gov. Tony Evers directive that he withdraw Wisconsin from a multi-state lawsuit seeking to repeal the federal health care law,…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers, in his first State of the State speech Tuesday, called on the Republican-controlled Legislature to scale back a corporate tax credit…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican leaders in the state Assembly aren’t happy with Democratic Gov. Tony Evers saying legalizing medical marijuana could start the process for full legalization. Evers said…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge says top Republicans in the Wisconsin Legislature violated the First Amendment when they blocked a liberal advocacy group from seeing their Twitter feeds.…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans on Thursday unveiled an alternative way to pay for Democratic Gov. Tony Evers proposed income tax cut while also moving quickly to approve a…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge on Thursday struck down early-voting restrictions Wisconsin Republicans adopted in a December lame-duck legislative session, saying the limits mirror restrictions he blocked two…
