Gov. Tony Evers vetoed four bills in the Republican-backed "Tougher on Crime" bill package on Friday. The measures aimed to impose tougher sanctions and sentences on criminals, including making it easier to revoke extended supervision, parole or probation for people charged with a crime.

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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' administration scrapped a public website created under his Republican predecessor to track compliance on public records requests, a move criticized in a report issued Monday by a conservative law firm.

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Faced with a tight deadline, the Republican co-chairs of the Wisconsin Legislature's budget committee said Thursday that their attorney will sign a confidentiality agreement requested by Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to end a stalemate over lawsuit settlements.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Monday called on the Republican-controlled Legislature to take action on bills that would limit access to guns, which he said would make the state safer following a pair of mass shootings in Texas and Ohio that left 31 people dead.

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The Wisconsin Senate is expected to give final approval to the state budget on Wednesday. After that, it will head to Gov. Tony Evers, who can sign it into law with no changes, sign it with alterations made through his partial-veto powers, or veto the entire plan.

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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed an assistant corporation counsel to be the top prosecutor in Columbia County.

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Gov. Tony Evers has appointed three new University of Wisconsin System regents.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is scheduled to sign a bill into law for the first time, enacting a proposal barring the term "mental retardation" from state agency rules and regulations.

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One of Gov. Tony Evers' Cabinet secretaries who was charged with felony child abuse in 2005 after jabbing her 5-year-old son's hand with a pen said during a state Senate confirmation hearing Wednesday it was a "horrendous mistake" that has not been repeated.

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Gov. Tony Evers' pick to lead the Wisconsin Department of Health Services on Wednesday defended naming a former vice president at Planned Parenthood as a top deputy, saying she won't have any involvement in lawsuits challenging the state's abortion laws.

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Gov. Tony Evers wants to indefinitely delay closing the state's troubled juvenile prison, spend nearly $200 million more on replacement facilities and increase the age for charging juveniles as adults from 17 to 18.

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A new report confirms what advocates of replacing Green Bay's maximum-security institution have long been arguing: the prison is overcrowded, out-of-date and dangerous.

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Five unions and a Democratic lawmaker have filed another lawsuit challenging measures Wisconsin Republican approved in a lame-duck session.

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The Wisconsin attorney general has rejected Democratic Gov. Tony Evers request to withdraw from a multi-state lawsuit targeting the Affordable Care Act, saying in a letter released Thursday that only the Republican-controlled Legislature now has the power to take such action.

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Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order requiring state agencies to develop and implement policies preventing discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Moments after being sworn in as governor, Tony Evers called on Monday for a rejection of "the tired politics of the past," cautioning in his inaugural address that "we've become content with division."

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The National Rifle Association spent more than $870,000 campaigning against Gov.-elect Tony Evers in the election this fall.

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Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers has named Quarles & Brady's Rebecca Cameron Valcq chairwoman of the Public Service Commission.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers named four Milwaukee-area leaders to his Cabinet on Wednesday, including a former campaign manager to Mayor Tom Barrett and a 30-year veteran of the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department.

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Gov. Scott Walker says the powers of his Democratic replacement will remain among the strongest of any governor in the country, even if he signs bills passed in a lame-duck session.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers has put together a council to advise him on criminal-justice policy.

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Republican lawmakers on Wednesday passed a series of bills meant to restrict the powers of the incoming governor and attorney general, both Democrats.

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Wisconsin Republicans, just weeks away from losing control of both the governor's and attorney general's offices, planned to take big lame-duck votes Tuesday on a sweeping attempt to limit the powers of incoming Democrats, a step that opponents decried as a last-gasp power grab and attempt to invalidate the election.

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A sweeping series of proposals offered by Wisconsin Republican state lawmakers for a lame-duck legislative session would weaken the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general, move the date of the 2020 presidential and do much more.

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Wisconsin Democrats are worried their Republican rivals will find a way to remove Gov.-elect Tony Evers from the all-important legislative redistricting process.

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Nothing has been ruled out for consideration during a lame duck legislative session next month before Democratic Gov.-elect Tony Evers takes office, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said on Monday.

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Gov. Scott Walker is giving outgoing Attorney General Brad Schimel a job as a judge.

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The Legislature's finance committee has approved Gov.-elect Tony Evers' transition budget.

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Gov.-elect Tony Evers has some big ideas about how to reform Wisconsin's overcrowded prison system.

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Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos said Wednesday he is open to looking at ways to limit the power of the incoming governor, Tony Evers, before he takes office in January.

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