Wisconsin News

Cows have long been the stars of Wisconsin's dairy industry, but goats and sheep get a bigger share of the spotlight when the World Championship Cheese Contest begins Tuesday in Madison.

Public officials in Wisconsin can be fined hundreds of dollars for violating Wisconsin's open government laws, but court records show only seven citations have been imposed across the state in the past five years for open meetings violations, and none for public records cases.

The measure was brought about in part by friends of Paul Heenan, an unarmed man shot and killed by a Madison Police officer in November 2012.

Nowhere in Wisconsin does the craft of contemporary brewing seem more contagious than Madison and Dane County.

Tickets are $10 each for students, $35 general admission, $60 for VIP single tickets and $100 for VIP couple tickets.

A southern Wisconsin man accused of burning the corpse of a missing woman in his backyard fire pit has entered a plea deal.

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Medicaid enrollment in Wisconsin has declined by 19,348, or 2.6 percent, as a deadline nears for Gov. Scott Walker 's plan to add thousands of uninsured adults to the Medicaid rolls, but state officials say they anticipate a last-minute surge of signups to get closer to Walker's goal.

Freshman Lydia Collins, 19, looks out from her dorm building at Tufts University in Medford Thursday, March 13, 2014.

Today's Paper, also known as the e-Edition, is an online replica of the printed newspaper.

Currently, injectable or infused chemotherapy is covered by insurance once the deductible is met.

Facing the potential for decades in prison, Jones skipped town -- but never, apparently, got on the straight and narrow.

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development released unemployment estimates from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Thursday morning, showing state unemployment had dropped to 6.1 percent, the lowest it has been since November 2008.

The Republican-controlled Wisconsin state Senate voted Wednesday to end weekend voting before statewide elections and allow lobbyists to make political donations earlier in the election cycle.

The coal-fired units at the J.P. Pulliam Plant in Green Bay will be closed as a result of an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to repower, refuel or retire older units that produce high emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide.

Proposals to rewrite Common Core academic standards, require increased reporting of private schools in the voucher program and limit regulations on sand mining in Wisconsin appear unlikely to pass as the Legislature reaches the end of its session.

In 1887, many years before Babcock Hall - the dairy plant and store that bears his name - was built, Stephen Moulton Babcock arrived on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus.

"When you know that your child isn't going to live, you learn to take every second and cherish it."

"When you know that your child isn't going to live, you learn to take every second and cherish it."

This last year has seen almost constant threats to Wisconsin's openness laws. We've had local law enforcement agencies suppressing drivers license information, a state senator claiming immunity from civil suits to evade the open records law, and attempts to deny public access to records of circuit court cases and university research.