U.S. Rep. Fred Upton says inspectors have found the source of a water leak that forced the shutdown of the Palisades Nuclear Power Plant on the Lake Michigan shoreline and are making repairs to prevent a repeat.
It's the age old concept of helping each other out-- exchanging something you can do for something you need.
It may not be unusual for schoolchildren to write to the president or vice president. But one Wisconsin boy got an unexpected response. The 7-year-old wrote a letter to Vice President Joe Biden and other officials a few months ago with a simple idea for making the world safer.
UPDATE: The Minnesota Senate has voted to legalize gay marriage, putting the state on the brink of becoming the 12th to allow same-sex couples to marry.
Authorities say human remains found in Taylor County late last week are those of a woman who had been missing for two weeks.
UPDATE: The Legislature's budget committee wants to see more details from the Department of Corrections about its plan for hiring additional staff before handing over the money.
A 23-year-old Grant man has been sentenced to a year in jail for the 2011 shooting death of his friend.
UPDATE: Unemployed people in Wisconsin would have to double their searches for work from two to four a week or lose their benefits under a proposal approved by the Legislature's budget committee.
The Madison Police Department's Traffic Enforcement Safety Team will be out conducting speed and other traffic enforcement this week.
A Republican member of the Legislature's budget committee says he doesn't know if he's convinced enough of his colleagues to reject a proposal freeing rent-to-own businesses from Wisconsin's consumer protection act.
UPDATE: President Barack Obama is dismissing Republican criticism of his administration's handling of the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Libya, calling the criticism a political sideshow.
The Madison Water Utility has released its annual Water Quality Report.
UPDATE: Dane County emergency workers were being tested on their ability to deal with an active shooter Monday afternoon.
Madison Police say a burglar broke the kitchen window of a Madison home, reached inside and stole a purse Saturday morning.
Madison Police are looking for a man who robbed someone outside the Five Nightclub early Sunday morning.
Wisconsin officials say more than 100 million pounds of electronic waste has been collected since the state began an e-waste recycling program three years ago.
A child is recovering from a dog attack in Wausau.
A Fond du Lac professor will help study the rising suicide rate among U.S. Marines.
The state Natural Resources Board is scheduled to vote next week on a scope statement for rules implementing Republican changes to Wisconsin's mining regulations.
UPDATE: A Mount Pleasant man is charged in the death of his girlfriend's 3-year-old son after the boy apparently was punched in the mouth, whipped and burned for defecating in his pants.
A motorcycle rights group has a lot of power in the debate over whether motorcyclists should wear a helmet.
Police say that two of the 18 people shot in New Orleans during a neighborhood Mother's Day parade were children.
Traffic backed up into Wisconsin on I-90 is cleared.
Tough calls don't often confront the people responsible for deciding who belongs on a national memorial for officers killed in the line of duty.
The state Department of Natural Resources board is poised to make some changes to Wisconsin's endangered species list.
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