Gov. Tony Evers' administration announced Friday that it wants to hire outside attorneys to potentially file lawsuits over PFAS contamination.
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Read More »Gov. Tony Evers' administration announced Friday that it wants to hire outside attorneys to potentially file lawsuits over PFAS contamination.
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Read More »Participants in Milwaukee County’s criminal justice system believe the courts will come back from the COVID-19 pandemic stronger than it was before.
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Read More »The Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are considering ending the statewide mask mandate designed to slow the spread of the coronavirus and could do so by passing a resolution as soon as next week.
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Read More »Monica Paz has been unanimously appointed as Waukesha County's Clerk of Circuit Court.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty is adding to its team with two new attorneys and two policy experts.
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Read More »Green Bay police and the Brown County Tavern League are working together to make sure bars and restaurants are enforcing coronavirus protocol for Sunday’s NFC championship game.
Read More »More than a third of Wisconsin law enforcement agencies that responded to a new survey said they don't use body cameras, according to findings released Thursday.
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Read More »An intoxicated man's right to bear arms is at the core of a case in front of the Wisconsin Supreme Court on Thursday.
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Read More »A Green Bay woman convicted of neglect in the death of her 15-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Read More »Everyone would be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine by mid-March regardless of how much vaccine is available, under a bill heard by the Assembly Health Committee on Wednesday.
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Read More »A state advisory committee is recommending grocery-store workers and bus drivers be added to the list of people in Wisconsin to be inoculated in the next phase of the coronavirus vaccine rollout.
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Read More »A California company has agreed to a $2.5 million settlement to resolve allegations that it had paid a marketing company to refer it genetic testing for Wisconsin nursing-home patients.
Read More »A group of Wisconsin lawmakers introduced legislation Wednesday designed to reform police use-of-force policies and investigations, including proposals that would ban training on chokeholds, punish municipalities that defund police departments and set up a board to investigate officer-involved deaths and injuries.
Read More »The Wisconsin Supreme Court clarified child-testimony rules in a unanimous opinion involving a man convicted of sexually assaulting three children.
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Read More »A Wisconsin appeals court rejected arguments Wednesday from a transgender teen who contended she shouldn't be forced to register as a sex offender because she has to use her male name on the registry in violation of her free-speech rights.
Read More »A bipartisan group of legislators is resurrecting a bill that would allow more convicts to have their criminal records expunged.
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Read More »The COVID-19 vaccine would have to be available to the general public by mid-March, rather than June as state health officials estimate, under a bill from the Republican chairman of the Wisconsin Assembly Health Committee.
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Read More »A Green Bay woman convicted of neglect in the death of her 15-month-old daughter has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
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Read More »Stop. Stabilize. Then move — but in a vastly different direction.
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Read More »The state has started distributing and receiving at-home test kits for COVID-19.
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Read More »Prosecutors have charged a Wisconsin pharmacist accused of intentionally spoiling COVID-19 vaccine with misdemeanor property damage.
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Read More »Aaron Loudenslager has formally ended his campaign for a judgeship on the District III Court of Appeals.
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Read More »Karen Timberlake, a partner at Michael Best Strategies’ Madison office, will serve as the Wisconsin Department of Health Services’ interim secretary. Timberlake replaces Andrea Palm, who has been nominated as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
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Read More »Everyone over age 65 in Wisconsin will be eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine starting on Monday, the state Department of Health Services said Tuesday.
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Read More »Authorities say the actions of an intoxicated man who drove his vehicle up the stairs of the Wisconsin Capitol grounds Saturday night did not appear to be politically motivated.
Read More »Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos is again limiting who can interact with him on social media two years after a federal judge found he had unconstitutionally blocked a liberal group from following him on Twitter.
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Read More »President-elect Joe Biden has introduced a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan to end "a crisis of deep human suffering" by speeding up vaccination and pumping out financial help to those struggling with the pandemic's prolonged economic fallout.
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Read More »The head of the Wisconsin Capitol Police told state lawmakers to stay away from the Capitol building this weekend and suggested that they remove any personal information from social media accounts due to threats of unrest at capitols in all 50 states.
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Read More »The Wisconsin Elections Commission is recommending that a former lawmaker who wants to run for a vacancy in the state Senate be allowed on the ballot, despite a challenge contending that he doesn’t live in the district.
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Read More »A 16-year-old boy has admitted fatally shooting his newborn daughter and leaving her body inside a fallen tree in the woods in southern Wisconsin, according to prosecutors.
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