Officials in Nevada, Oregon and Wisconsin also have proposed funding increases to hire additional staff to handle public requests for election records and information.
Republican lawmakers are now working privately to build support for a medical cannabis program that could win bipartisan backing and be enacted into law later this year, Speaker Robin Vos told the Associated Press.
The Wisconsin Senate is moving to undo a controversial state Supreme Court decision that transparency advocates say gutted open records laws when it was issued last year
The Joint Committee on Finance has been hearing from Wisconsinites from Eau Claire to Waukesha about what they think should be priorities in the next state budget.
Republican Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to create stricter rules for how long people can receive unemployment benefits and what they have to do to get them
NBC15 sat down with Attorney Doug Poland, who spells out what happens now that a new judge will enter the mix, as well as gives insight into when or if high-profile issues ranging from public health to election administration could be heard.
By Juliana Tornabene, Michelle Baik and Elizabeth Wadas
The winner in Tuesday’s election between Democratic-backed Janet Protasiewicz and Republican-backed Dan Kelly will determine majority control of the court.
Control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court, and likely the future of abortion access, Republican-drawn legislative maps and years of GOP policies in the key swing state rests with the outcome an election Tuesday that has seen record campaign spending.
The indictment of former President Donald Trump will likely have little impact on the high stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race to be decided next week.
NewsChannel 7 sat down with former appointed Justice Daniel Kelly and Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Janet Protasiewicz to make their case to voters and address attacks the other and their supporters have laid against them.
Professor at the UW-Madison School of Journalism & Mass Communication Doug McLeod said while everyone’s vote counts, voting in college can set the stage.
Some experts have likened this year’s race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court to a congressional or gubernatorial one. Here are characteristics of this judicial race, which in some ways makes it unlike others in the state’s past.
A perk that allows Wisconsin state lawmakers to apply the value of unused sick days to pay for health insurance premiums upon retirement is being targeted for elimination under a new bill
Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature unveiled a bill Wednesday that would create rape and incest exceptions to the state’s 1849 abortion ban.
Wisconsin voters and elections officials are being warned about misleading mailers from a liberal group that have incorrect information on pre-filled absentee ballot applications