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People who sell less than $5,000 a year worth of food they can at home would not have to get licensed by the state under a bill before the state Assembly.

People who sell less than $5,000 a year worth of food they can at home would not have to get licensed by the state under a bill before the state Assembly.

TOWN OF MENASHA - Law enforcement officials say a little awareness could go a long way toward reducing the crime, injuries and death associated with the illegal use of prescription drugs.

The Assembly speaker is reforming a committee that oversees risky state information technology projects after receiving criticism for failing to appoint its members earlier.

Wisconsin inns and hotels would be able to allow smoking in up to 25 percent of their rooms under a bill in the Legislature that would amend the statewide smoking ban.

Managers of some Wisconsin hotels want an exemption to the statewide smoking ban before it takes effect next summer.

Managers of some Wisconsin hotels want an exemption to the statewide smoking ban before it takes effect next summer.

Managers of some Wisconsin hotels want an exemption to the statewide smoking ban before it takes effect next summer.

Managers of some Wisconsin hotels want an exemption to the statewide smoking ban before it takes effect next summer.

Managers of some Wisconsin hotels want an exemption to the statewide smoking ban before it takes effect next summer.

Wolves in the previous two weeks have killed four dogs and injured one dog that were being trained to hunt bears.

Madison a ' At least four members of the Assembly are listed as having received campaign contributions earlier this year despite an Assembly rule banning fund raising during budget deliberations.

Two days ago, a man with an arrest record which includes burglary shot two Milwaukee police officers.

The legal requirement that state government notify the public of its actions is a guarantee to citizens that what by law must be done actually is carried out.

The legal requirement that state government notify the public of its actions is a guarantee to citizens that what by law must be done actually is carried out.

Perhaps the Democrats on the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee thought this would be a good time to kick newspapers while they're down.

Our View: Public notice law deserves real debate May 15, 2009 When the Legislature took up the budget submitted by Gov.

The clock is ticking on Antigo's Department of Natural Resources service center, along with 23 others around the state that provide one of the few customer-friendly faces on the sprawling agency.

State legal notices of meetings affecting everyone from hunters and anglers to business owners could run online instead of in the newspaper, under a proposal passed by the Legislature's budget committee Tuesday.

MADISON - The Legislature's budget-writing committee voted Tuesday to approve a plan to end counter service at two dozen state Department of Natural Resources field offices.