Former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager was selected Monday as chair of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission, and the job of administrator was offered to a former analyst of the nonpartisan board the panel was created to replace.

Three finalists from a list of 23 applicants have been selected to be interviewed to become the first leader of Wisconsin's new Ethics Commission.

A member of Wisconsin's nonpartisan state elections board says he prays that the public "come to its senses" and demand a reversal of a state Supreme Court ruling ending an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker.

Members of the newly created commission to regulate ethics and campaign finance laws for Wisconsin office holders and lobbyists continued their organizational work Thursday with the simplest of tasks: deciding on a name.

Gov. Scott Walker has appointed a former Sheboygan County Clerk to one of the new entities that will replace the board that oversees elections.

Wisconsin state agencies' computers are back online after a server failure.

Former Democratic Attorney General Peg Lautenschlager has been named to the state's new ethics commission.

Wisconsin officials are predicting only about 10 percent of eligible voters will turn out for Tuesday’ s primary election for the state Supreme Court and various local offices.

Wisconsin's Government Accountability Board is pushing to inform people about new voter photo ID requirements with two weeks left before the spring primary.

Wisconsin lawmakers are insisting that they didn’t intend to allow corporate political donations to remain secret under the recent overhaul of the state’s campaign finance laws.

Will the breaking up of the state’s Government Accountability Board into two agencies controlled mostly by representatives of the main political parties result in nothing more than gridlock and inaction?

The state's elections board and the Wisconsin Club for Growth say they've reached a settlement over a lawsuit related to an investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's 2012 recall campaign.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker signed a bill Wednesday that eliminates Wisconsin's nonpartisan state elections board and replaces it with a pair of commissions made up of political appointees, despite opponents' concerns about the potential for corruption and a lack of transparency.

The state Government Accountability Board is getting ready to implement changes to Wisconsin's campaign finance laws.

The Wisconsin Department of Administration says taxpayer costs for private lawyers defending state officials from lawsuits stemming from a secret investigation into Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign have topped $1.2 million.

The state Assembly gave final approval Monday to a pair of Republican-backed bills that would significantly alter the flow of money into Wisconsin political campaigns and dramatically change oversight of elections, campaign finance and ethics laws.

The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill dissolving Wisconsin's nonpartisan board overseeing elections, campaign finance and ethics laws.

Democrats and advocacy groups are making a final push to stop bills that would do away with Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board and rewrite state campaign finance laws.

Wisconsin Republicans early Saturday pushed through a pair of bills to loosen campaign finance law and end the state's nonpartisan elections board after hours of late-night debate in the state Senate.

Republican state senators said Friday they are ready to vote on a bill that would put retired judges on a commission overseeing ethics and campaign finance laws, but still undecided about whether to require donors to disclose who they work for.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said Wednesday he has the votes to pass a compromise bill that would put two retired judges on a new ethics commission, a move that also won support from the measure's sponsor and other reluctant lawmakers.

The state's elections board is asking a judge to dismiss as no longer relevant one of the claims that Wisconsin Club for Growth made against it in a lawsuit related to the investigation into Gov. Scott Walker.

The Republican leader of the state Senate is optimistic that bills dissolving Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board and rewriting the state's campaign finance law will be passed next week.

Republicans who control the state Senate have canceled a floor session Tuesday and plan to use the time instead to discuss bills that would overhaul the state's elections board and campaign finance statutes.

The Wisconsin Assembly was poised Wednesday to vote to dissolve the state's nonpartisan elections board, however a Republican state senator said the bill in its current form doesn't have enough support to pass in his chamber.

Election clerks registered their support Tuesday for Wisconsin's embattled nonpartisan elections board, which would be eliminated under a bill moving quickly through the Legislature.

Three Republican-backed proposals to eliminate Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections board, do away with secret investigations into political wrongdoing and legalize coordination between issue advocacy groups and candidates will usher in a new era of corruption, Democrats said Monday.

The head of Wisconsin's nonpartisan elections board is defending the agency from Republicans who want to do away with it.

The Wisconsin state Assembly plans to vote next week on bills dissolving the nonpartisan state elections board to create a partisan commission and prohibiting the use of secret John Doe investigations into political crimes.

Wisconsin's unique nonpartisan elections and government ethics oversight board is a failed experiment that has not lived up to expectations, Republicans who support moving to a new partisan model argued at a joint legislative hearing Tuesday.