A second round of identical funding will be released next year, bringing the total to more than $411 million in allocations to Wisconsin communities with fewer than 50,000 residents.
A Baraboo woman is leading an effort to oppose potential construction of a new lakefront building at Wisconsin’s most popular state park.
"On the back end we had retiring drivers and on the front end we had a bottleneck created by the pandemic for new drivers coming into the workforce," Kedzie said.
On Tuesday, as reported by WisPolitics.com, Eric Lobner, DNR's Wildlife Management Program director, in a virtual news conference said the opening weekend gun deer harvest this year is down about 14 percent compared to last year. Gun deer hunters during the opening weekend of the nine-day se…
Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Mark Afable is stepping down next month, Gov. Tony Evers said Tuesday.
Under new guidance, unvaccinated poll workers will be able to work in upcoming elections if they submit a negative coronavirus test within three days of an election.
On Monday, as reported by Lauren Henning of the Journal Times, the Racine Unified School District’s $1 billion referendum reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court as the justices heard oral arguments regarding the 2020 results. The referendum initially passed by just five votes with a total of 33…
On this episode of Rewind: Your Week in Review, WisconsinEye Host and CBS 58 Capitol Reporter Emilee Fannon and WisPolitics.com Editor JR Ross discuss Gov. Tony Evers vetoing the Republicans Redistricting Plan which now sets up a battle in the courts who are almost certain to decide what new…
In its first few years the Wisconsin Elections Commission split 3-3 on official decisions only twice, but from December 2019 through the end of 2020 it recorded 32 split votes.
On Thursday, as reported by WisPolitics.com, the state Supreme Court and the Voting Rights Act combined with Democratic-packed cities likely will give Republicans an edge in the redistricting process now that Gov. Tony Evers has vetoed the GOP-drawn maps. That's according to two Republicans …
The GOP-drawn maps, which passed the Republican-controlled state Assembly and Senate last week, would largely maintain the core of the existing district boundaries that Republicans drew in secret in 2011.
In both cases the rate increases were driven by higher fuel costs as well as new solar energy plants and other capital investments, while the savings from federal tax cuts that were used to offset expenses in recent years have been exhausted.
DWD reported the state's unemployment rate dropped to 3.2% in October, the lowest the state has seen since before the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
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Speaking with reporters Thursday, Vos said Johnson met with Republican lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss topics like the economy and inflation, but "never got into elections."