Wisconsin Transportation Fund Headed for Deficit
New estimates show Wisconsin's transportation fund is headed for a $63.5 million deficit by mid-2015.
New estimates show Wisconsin's transportation fund is headed for a $63.5 million deficit by mid-2015.
George Jones, the peerless, hard-living country singer who recorded dozens of hits about good times and regrets and peaked with the heartbreaking classic "He Stopped Loving Her Today," has died. He was 81.
Employees in the city of Fitchburg put on the purple to support one of their own
Wisconsin transportation officials are calling for riders to be more cautious as the National Motorcycle Safety Awareness Month arrives in May.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and a number of organizations are set to celebrate Arbor Day by planning a tree on the state Capitol's lawn.
Madison Police say crime rates rise with the temperatures, as residents recover from a string of burglaries already this month.
Wisconsin agriculture officials confirm emerald ash borers have reached Beloit.
We spoke with incoming UW students about the $648 million surplus. That money's been set aside as students have continued to face rising tuition rates. Of the students we spoke with, some saw the wisdom in setting the money aside. Others were less than thrilled with the prospect, especially if it meant higher tuition rates for them.
UPDATE: Doctors would not be required to give patients as much information about alternative treatments available to them under a bill passed by an Assembly committee.
Madison Police say something that could be an unlit Molotov cocktail was found on the playground of Lowell Elementary School Thursday morning.
With the weather getting warmer, the Madison Police Department will deploy additional resources downtown on the weekends. Officers say it's an effect to reduce violent, disruptive and intimidating behavior.
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Most of Wisconsin is drought-free thanks to recent rain and snow.
A state appeals court is urging the Wisconsin Supreme Court to take a case brought by two unions challenging the constitutionality of Gov. Scott Walker's law effectively ending collective bargaining for most public workers.
UPDATE: A Milwaukee-area woman who lost three of her four children in a fire this month after she left them alone in a locked bedroom has pleaded not guilty to charges of felony child neglect.
A candle is to blame for an apartment fire in the Town of Madison.
A tiny, grain-sized microchip has helped reunite a cat found on the doorsteps of a central Wisconsin animal shelter with his owner who lives nearly 1,800 miles away.
The five living U.S. presidents are appearing together at the dedication ceremony for the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
A 150-year-old oak tree that has been a landmark in southern Wisconsin will soon be gone. The tree is being removed to make way for the expansion of state Highway 26 between Milton and Fort Atkinson.
Only a dozen out of 58 non-fiscal policy items identified in Gov. Scott Walker's budget are being removed by Republicans who head the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison is trying to help freshmen studying the biological sciences make it through their year of rigorous course work.
The state Department of Natural Resources is set to take public comment on a draft plan to add hundreds of acres to High Cliff State Park.
A 67-year-old woman has died after she was rescued from a house fire in Kenosha.
An Eau Claire man will be committed to a mental institution after admitted he killed his neighbor last year.
Experts warn neighborhoods full of flooded homes could draw "storm chasing" contractors to the area, and the potential for scams.
The mayor of Sheboygan Falls is back to work after a highway crash that injured him and his wife and killed two others.
