A legislative study committee tasked with recommending improvements to Wisconsin's treatment courts voted Wednesday to set up a grant program for family courts.

A committee tasked with making recommendations on how to improve Wisconsin's treatment courts system voted Wednesday that programs should allow certain violent offenders to participate.

A legislative study committee voted Wednesday to recommend several changes to Wisconsin’s treatment courts system.

A legislative committee tasked with looking at the Wisconsin’s treatment and alternative courts is ready to start considering recommendations for the Legislature.

There are violent offenders deserving of the state’s treatment court options, stakeholders told members of a legislative committee Tuesday.

Relatives who help felons evade police could face steep fines and jail time under a bill passed by the state Senate on Tuesday.

A bill that would move many 17-year-old, first-time offenders out of the adult court system may not pass before the legislative session ends next month.

A bill that would allow prosecutors to charge family members who hide or aid wanted suspects from apprehension passed the Assembly on Thursday afternoon.

Supporters of a bill that would remove case information from the state courts’ online records system said Thursday that the harm it would undo far outweighs the loss of the public’s ability to easily obtain court records.

The state Assembly voted unanimously Tuesday in favor of legislation meant, in part, to prevent prosecutors from having to enlist pharmacologists to attest to the psychological effects of synthetic drugs in cases against sellers of the banned substances.

A Wisconsin Senate committee approved a bill Wednesday that seeks to move 17-year-old, first-time offenders into juvenile court.

A bill that would allow prosecutors to charge family members who hide or aid wanted suspects from apprehension moved one step closer to approval Thursday afternoon.

If a bill introduced this week had been law earlier this year, David Turnpaugh would be out $780.90.

Almost everyone who testified Thursday for a legislative bill that would place into juvenile court certain 17-year-old offenders said the idea is an admirable one.

A bipartisan bill expected to get a speedy hearing at the state Capitol would better verify whether domestic and child abusers covered by restraining orders have guns in their possession.

Brown County officials had to wait months before prosecuting a man arrested in September on suspicion of selling synthetic drugs.

A Wisconsin lawmaker is pushing for tougher laws to deter people who would intimidate or harm members of the Legislature and their families.

Legislation under debate at the Capitol would significantly increase compensation for those wrongly convicted and incarcerated.