The village of Lake Delton is not liable for damage to five houses and nine lots caused by massive flooding in June 2008, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals ruled Thursday.

A group of northern Wisconsin residents has filed a lawsuit alleging state regulators should have required a mining company to get a permit before it launched exploratory excavations.

A lawsuit that involved deer hunting, a game warden and a “dust-up” in northern Wisconsin should not have been fully dismissed, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday.

A Madison company that polluted waters during a sandmining operation in the city of Blair will pay $200,000 in forfeitures and costs.

A Wisconsin appeals court says manure isn't a pollutant as defined in an insurance policy.

After years of expanding the public trust doctrine, the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the Legislature are reversing course.

Former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank says he won't run for attorney general.

A former Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources secretary says he's considering a run for attorney general.

The owners of a trailer park in Lodi were ordered Wednesday to pay $85,000 for violating environmental laws on three occasions, according to a news release from the state's Attorney General’s office.

The Wisconsin Public Service Corp. has been ordered to pay $80,000 in forfeitures and court costs for excessively polluting the area surrounding its coal power plant in Rothschild.

A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday ruled against the state Department of Natural Resources in a case that could set a precedent for how much power the DNR has over setting water levels on lakes affected by dams.

Six hard-fought inches of extra lake water during the hot summer months have embroiled property owners and businesses around southern Wisconsin’s Lake Koshkonong in a nine-year court battle with the state Department of Natural Resources.

Milwaukee County is bracing itself for a possible lawsuit over land proposed for The Couture in downtown Milwaukee.

The Vyskocil family will pay $25,000 in penalties and court costs after settling an environmental lawsuit filed by the state, according to a news release.

An oil recycling facility in Waukesha County will pay $140,000 in fines to the state for 11 violations of Wisconsin hazardous waste laws.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Efforts to dredge toxic industrial chemicals from the Fox River should continue, a federal judge has ruled. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Natural Resources filed a federal lawsuit against NCR Corp. and 11 others in 2010, after the companies said they were dredging the river under protest and that they had not agreed ...

Tinedale Farms Partnership LLP recently reached a settlement agreement with the state of Wisconsin in which the Wrightstown dairy operation will pay $50,000 for alleged violations of its Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permit.

Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen announced Wednesday the Wisconsin Department of Justice reached a settlement agreement of $45,000 with Green Bay-based BelGioioso Cheese Inc.

Graymont LLC, a limestone processing facility in Superior, recently agreed to pay $200,000 to settle a lawsuit alleging violations of air pollution control permits and Wisconsin air pollution laws.

The state is suing a Madison manufacturer, alleging it violated the hazardous substance spills law.

A judge has refused to throw out a lawsuit challenging the use of dogs in this winter's wolf hunt.

A Dane County judge issued an order Friday that temporarily bans wolf hunters from training or using dogs in the chase, casting doubt on whether this fall's hunt will happen.

A Dane County judge has postponed a ruling on a request to block hunters from training dogs to go after wolves until next week.

A Dane County judge is expected to consider this week whether to halt Wisconsin's new wolf hunt before it starts.

The Wisconsin Department of Justice on Friday settled its lawsuit against Green Bay concrete and aggregate contractor Triple P Inc., Green Bay, and James O. Peters Sr.

A coalition is suing the Department of Natural Resources to try to stop Wisconsin's planned wolf hunt.

An Illinois resident who illegally filled wetlands during three separate years in Oneida County has agreed to pay $30,000 plus the cost of environmental restoration, the Wisconsin Department of Justice announced Monday.

Last month, the Wisconsin Supreme Court held that the state is entitled to a jury trial when suing a private actor for Medicaid fraud under the Deceptive Trade Practices Act (State v. Abbott Laboratories, 2012 WI 62).

The Department of Justice has settled a lawsuit related to a complaint by the Department of Natural Resources against Wisconsin well driller Todd Huemann and his company, T. Huemann Well & Pump Inc., according to a news release from the DOJ.

Failure to file a timely challenge could cost the city of Kaukauna its right to provide sewer service to 89 acres of land in the town of Harrison, according to a Wisconsin Court of Appeals decision issued Tuesday.