UPDATE: Wis. Assembly Passes Drunken Driving Sentences
UPDATE: The state Assembly has passed a Republican bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars.
UPDATE: The state Assembly has passed a Republican bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars.
A Marquette University law school poll released Tuesday says 51 percent of respondents approve of the way Gov. Scott Walker is doing his job, while 45 percent disapprove.
A Marquette University law school poll released Tuesday says three-fourths of Wisconsin residents support a tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin.
A Marquette University law school poll released Tuesday said 48 percent of respondents would like to see Wisconsin's voucher program expanded statewide or at least in larger districts with some underperforming schools. Forty-four percent want it frozen or ended altogether.
Authorities say one person has died in a mobile home fire in Vernon County.
The girlfriend of a Wausau man is charged with supplying the heroin that caused his death.
UPDATE: Gov. Scott Walker says he has no problems with a new residency requirement added to the state budget by the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee.
A former Waupun City Council member is seeking the Republican nomination for Wisconsin secretary of state.
UPDATE: The state Assembly is expected to take up a Republican bill that would allow attorneys to nullify court rulings blocking state laws by filing quick appeals.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
The state Department of Natural Resources board is poised to make some changes to Wisconsin's endangered species list.