Wisconsin News

The husband of a woman killed more than six years ago at an Illinois Burger King says a guilty verdict for the attacker brings her family little, if any, peace.

Republicans have long championed the discredited ideas of the late Milton Friedman, a conservative economist who argued that the country is much better off economically if citizens are "free to choose." Sounds great, but in the real world, Republicans are busy reducing your choices even as they insist they're busy protecting your right to choose.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer has been acquitted on three of four counts in a trial related to the sale of raw milk.

Washington state officials said the bridge that collapsed outside of Seattle Thursday night was repaired twice in the last year.

As many travelers head out of town for the three-day Memorial Day weekend, there's still plenty of construction that might add frustration to your travel plans.

Wisconsin's Lemon Law King is trying to rally dealers against a Republican bill that would relax car buyer protection statutes.

A more than half-century-old advocacy group for Wisconsin's public university students says it will be crippled by a vote taken Thursday night by the Legislature's budget committee.

Without even thinking, Joe Ortner rattles off a list of items on his family's dairy farm that could kill you: 1,000 gallons of diesel, 500 gallons of gas, cleaning chemicals in the milking parlour, oil and lubricant for repair work and a 6-foot-deep manure pond in which you could drown.

The Wisconsin Historical Society has added the official portrait of former Gov. Jim Doyle to its collection of official portraits of state governors.

MADISON There were plenty of recriminations Thursday night, as the legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted on a budget amendment for the University of Wisconsin System.

There's nothing like a good old fashioned Wisconsin supper club, and if you aren't spending enough time in your favorite one, there are two ways to bask in the experience without having to get off your couch or deal with an unwieldy relish tray.

An elementary school principal has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible.

Wisconsin is a national leader when it comes to protecting an often overlooked but invaluable resource trees.

Molly Fuglestad gets a hug from her friend Heather Ferber at the Kenny Chesney show.

A legislative committee has voted to slash the University of Wisconsin System budget, venting its anger after learning the system raised tuition for six straight years even though it's currently sitting on a surplus of $650 million.

When the barnside decorations began appearing in 2010 to help promote historic preservation and tourism, no one imagined what would happen three years later.

A fishing tradition in the Badger State is about to get better just in time for the extended holiday weekend.

Overall, the state unemployment rate in April was 7.2 percent, a decrease from the 7.7 percent rate posted in March and higher than 6.8 percent posted in April 2012, the state Department of Workforce Development reported Wednesday.

A little boy gave his family quite a scare on Wednesday after wandering away from his Elmood, Wis., home with his faithful companion by his side, reported Thursday's CBS Minnesota .

Holiday travel is expected to be steady this Thanksgiving, and road construction should not be an obstacle.