Wisconsin News

Traffic deaths in Wisconsin last month were tied for the lowest on record for the month of October.

A spokesman for the U.S. Army Reserves says three of the four soldiers from a Wisconsin-based combat stress unit who were wounded in the Fort Hood, Texas, shooting have returned to duty.

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Wisconsin's Venison Donation Program. In 10 years the program distributed over 3.1 million pounds of ground venison from nearly 70,000 deer donated by hunters, processed by participating meat processors and distributed by volunteers to state food pantries.

Democrats who control the state Senate have unveiled a package of proposals they said will help create and retain jobs and businesses and improve worker education and training.

Candles held heavenward, Jill Reifsnider and Kristin Thayer hugged and sobbed Sunday night as they paid tribute to and honored the memory of their friend and fallen soldier, Staff Sgt.

WASHINGTON, DC , November 6, 2009 - Representatives of 400 federally recognized tribal nations from across the United States gathered at the Department of the Interior Thursday at the invitation of President Barack Obama for a conference the President called a "unique and historic event, the largest and most widely attended gathering of tribal ...

Wisconsin wildlife officials are warning hunters they'll probably take fewer deer than last year.

WASHINGTON a ' Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in education grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.

Bankruptcy filings in the state are up about 30 percent from this time last year, particularly among seniors struggling with medical expenses.

Three years removed from high school, Amy Krueger was in an Army Reserve recruiting office the day after the terrorist attacks of Sept.

A social worker who worked in Madison is in critical condition after the Fort Hood attack.

Gov. Jim Doyle wants to officially say "thank you" to snowplow drivers. As winter closes in, the governor has declared Tuesday as Snowplow Driver Appreciation Day.

A Cashton mother says there were no warning signs before her 21-month-old daughter died after contracting the H1N1 flu.

An unemployed Wisconsin teen spent the first 19 years of his life as Calvin Gosz, but after selling his naming rights you can now call him Verkkokauppa Com.

A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.Mansfield Neblett told The Associated Press in an e-mail Friday he decided to donate the triangular, bright yellow hat to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

The uncle of a Wisconsin soldier says his nephew is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

One soldier from Wisconsin was killed and two others were hurt in the shooting massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base on Thursday.

Gov. Jim Doyle plans to meet with employees and company leaders at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac.

The first snowflakes of the season have already fallen on parts of Wisconsin. As a result, the 511 Traveler Information System, a service of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, has activated its winter road condition report feature.

A comprehensive toughening of Wisconsin's notoriously weak drunken driving laws moved a step closer to becoming law Thursday with unanimous approval by the state Senate.