Wisconsin News

North-central Wisconsin offers a lot of great restaurants. By popular demand, Newsline 9 visited four more of them, and we followed out viewers' suggestions as we search for the best places where the locals eat.

On May 26, we're publishing our Summer Reading preview in the Journal Sentinel's Sunday Cue section and at TapMilwaukee.com , with dozens of suggestions for your enjoyment.

WAUPACA, Wis Wisconsin has its third million-dollar Powerball winner in the last week.

There were some tense moments in a western Wisconsin neighborhood on Wednesday after authorities said a child wandered away from home with his dog.

The Legislature's powerful finance committee is expected to review Gov. Scott Walker's plan to take DNA from anyone arrested for a felony and anyone convicted of any crime.

Public broadcasters in Wisconsin and state veterans groups are attempting to gather photos for each of the 1,244 Wisconsinites on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in Washington, D.C., for a wall of faces in a new museum and education center.

GROWMARK ANNOUNCES 2013 WISCONSIN ESSAY CONTEST WINNER May 23, 2013 Source: GROWMARK news release sent via AgPR --the news distribution service for agriculture Moriah Zarling of Thorp, Wis., has been named the Wisconsin state winner of the 2013 GROWMARK essay contest for FFA members.

A scenic 10-mile stretch of Wisconsin bluff land would be off-limits to frac-sand mining under a proposed ordinance that has strong local support but must overcome a pro-business climate that has made the Badger State the nation's hottest silica sand-mining range.

The Legislature's budget writing committee set aside fiscal issues for a time this week to take up the increasingly contentious issue of high-capacity wells and whether state regulators should consider the effect of a large well on others nearby.

Wisconsin's newest U.S. senator said Wednesday that her state's businesses and middle class residents are "stuck in neutral" while the national economy recovers.

Plight. It's a word you've been seeing a lot during the past several years whenever the media churns out their boilerplate immigration news stories about illegal aliens forced to "live in the shadows" while "searching for a better life." But the plight of more than 20 million Americans unable to find full-time work? Not much interest among the ... (more)

Brenda O'Malley figured she'd get the police accident report and file an insurance claim after her teenage daughter got into a car accident in Sheboygan Falls this past spring.

Ministry Health Care says it is eliminating about 2 percent of its workforce due to declining business and a reduction in Medicare payments because of federal budget cuts forced by the so-called sequestration.

MADISON Deadbeat parents in Wisconsin could soon be under more pressure to pay what they owe for child support.

EF5 tornadoes like the one that devastated Oklahoma this week are rare in Wisconsin.

Advocates and opponents of common core standards for teaching math and English in Wisconsin were gathering for a joint hearing before the Legislature's education committees.

It's part of a series of initiatives by the Department of Transportation to improve safety on Wisconsin roadways.

Among the country's largest metropolitan districts, Milwaukee Public Schools maintained its status as fourth-highest in per-pupil spending in 2011, while Wisconsin also ranked in the top third of states that spent the most per student that year.

The Legislature's budget committee has approved creating a high-deductible health insurance plan with health savings accounts for government workers in Wisconsin.

We are just a few days away from Memorial Day Weekend. It's the unofficial kickoff to Summer and that means many of you will be hitting the highway and heading north for the weekend.