Wisconsin News

The National Weather Service has issued a variety of winter warnings, watches and advisories for most of Wisconsin's northwestern counties until 6 a.m. Thursday.

Kuester told Dane County Circuit Court Judge William Foust that he understood he was waiving his right to trial with the pleas to three counts of first-degree intentional homicide.

State Senator Mary Lazich represents parts of four counties: Milwaukee, Waukesha, Racine, and Walworth.

Walker dismissed Taylor Palmisano as his campaign's deputy finance director Tuesday.

The National Weather Service says a low pressure system will bring in southerly breezes Wednesday and Wednesday night.

Wisconsin lawmakers on Wednesday are expected to consider delaying by three months a plan to shift thousands of people from a state Medicaid program onto the federal health insurance marketplace that has been plagued by technical problems.

Numbers compiled by the Wisconsin Taxpayers Alliance show per school student spending rose just over one percent during the last school year.

Legislative bodies perform two critical and complementary functions. The first is to pass bills; the second is to not pass them.

An appellate court on Tuesday questioned a lawyer for the state of Wisconsin about why lawmakers singled out abortion clinics in requiring their doctors to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, as judges heard arguments about the hotly debated law.

On Nov. 14, the Wisconsin Assembly gathered to clear its docket of a few "cats and dogs" - bills that don't really make big changes but are important to individual representatives.

With the Obama administration still under fire for scandalously abusing the IRS to target conservative and TEA Party organizations, a Democrat-led District Attorney's office in Wisconsin is making headlines nationwide for a controversial secret investigation -- a so-called "fishing expedition," according to some critics -- of political forces that ... (more)

A fire early Tuesday morning destroyed a cottage in Irma as slippery road conditions from an overnight snowfall hindered firefighters' response, the Merrill Fire Department said.

The first major winter storm of the season will be impacting Western Wisconsin right through Thursday morning.

Democrats in the Wisconsin state Assembly want a statewide vote on creating a new non-partisan system for redrawing political boundary lines.

December 3 - Greendale Village President and Assembly candidate John Hermes has added his name to the growing list of supporters of the Higher Ed, Lower Debt Act - groundbreaking legislation in Wisconsin to help combat the $1.2 trillion student loan debt crisis.

Naturalist Randy Hetzel is scheduled to appear at the center on Wednesday evening.

Navigators in Wisconsin, Illinois, Alabama and North Dakota reported vast improvement, while staffers in South Florida and Iowa were stymied by glitches on the federal website, which is serving 36 states.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports controversial streaming TV service Aereo has announced plans to expand into 11 Wisconsin counties by early 2014.

A company looking to dig a huge iron mine in far northwestern Wisconsin has submitted a scaled-down sampling plan that would make blasting a last resort.

When a 2010 basic needs study showed one in three families in this Midwestern community struggled to provide diapers for babies, the local United Way found a solution in its own backyard.