Wisconsin Government News

State wildlife officials are going on a bear hunt. The Department of Natural Resources is looking for a 125-pound bear that knocked a woman down outside her home near Siren on Sunday evening.

The Department of Natural Resources has been working for years to contain viral hemorrhagic septicemia, or VHS, an exotic disease that causes a wide array of fish species to bleed to death.

A state agency has tentatively approved a University of Wisconsin System plan that would give campuses flexibility in implementing a mandatory furlough order.

Former Wisconsin Assembly Speaker John Gard and his wife have purchased a lobbying company.

A summer camp operated by the Salvation Army in southeastern Wisconsin has shut down temporarily because of flu cases, including one confirmed as swine flu.

State revenue officials say Wisconsin's economy is showing signs of a rebound, but the recovery in employment and personal income is not expected to start until 2010.

States start their new budget year Wednesday, reeling from the recession but sparing most citizens from painful cuts in education and health care.

Governor Jim Doyle and State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster today announced $1.3 million in Recovery Act funds for Wisconsin schools and residential child care institutions to purchase equipment to improve food service operations.

Governor Jim Doyle today announced that 243 dislocated workers formerly employed by Appleton Paper Inc., in Appleton are eligible to apply for additional reemployment and training services under the federal Trade Adjustment Assistance program.

Disabled hunters can start signing up for Wisconsin's annual disabled deer hunt.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is encouraging local drivers from Racine and Kenosha Counties to avoid I-94 over the holiday weekend.

Thank you for being here today. Four months ago, I submitted my budget recommendations for the 2009-11 biennium to the Legislature.

Gov. Jim Doyle says a veto he made that's contrary to a constitutional ban is a "very little, minor point." The ban passed in April 2008 prohibits governors from vetoing parts of two or more sentences to create a new sentence.

A state appeals court has asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide whether viewing child pornography amounts to possession.

When Johnny Depp and the rest of the "Public Enemies" gang rolled out of town after filming was done last spring, it wasn't the first time Wisconsin had played a role in a major motion picture.

With the big Fourth of July holiday this weekend, state water experts advise that the annual warm weather nuisance known as swimmer's itch is making its seasonal appearance in Wisconsin lakes.

The cost of being a barber, accountant, social worker and nurse is going up in Wisconsin.

Like some risk-takers on Wall Street, the state of Wisconsin for years has leveraged other people'smoney on a gamble that the economy would always expand.

Following the signing of the state budget today, Governor Jim Doyle's office released the following release: Governor Doyle Signs State Budget MADISON - Joined by local officials, business and education leaders and Wisconsin citizens, Governor Jim Doyle signed into law today a state budget that builds upon the state's commitment to expand access to ...

With 2009 nearly half over, Wisconsin is continuing a downward trend of traffic fatalities.