Wisconsin

MADISON, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order on Tuesday creating a state Office of Violence Prevention and directing $10 million to support its violence prevention efforts statewide. The governor’s action coincides with the release of his... Read More

MILWAUKEE, Wis. — As both presidential candidates prepare for campaign visits this week, a new Marquette Law School Poll finds Vice President Kamala Harris leading former President Donald Trump 52%-48% in support from registered and likely voters. Harris on Thursday... Read More

WASHINGTON — Democratic incumbent Sen. Tammy Baldwin and her Republican challenger, Eric Hovde, will meet on Friday, Oct. 18, for their only head-to-head debate in this year’s hotly contested Senate race in Wisconsin. The joust, which is set to begin... Read More

WESTBY, Wis. — President Joe Biden traveled to southwest Wisconsin on Thursday to highlight how his administration’s investments in clean energy, expanded high-speed internet and other job-creating projects have benefited rural communities. One part victory lap and one part a... Read More

CHICAGO — The cost of living, availability of good-paying, stable jobs, and the impact of illegal immigration on both, are foremost on swing state voters’ minds as the 2024 election season enters its final weeks, according to a new poll... Read More

WASHINGTON — Beginning this weekend, some 50,000 people will descend on Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to either participate in or witness the Republican Party nominating a candidate for president and laying out its vision for the country for the next four years.... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday reinstated the use of ballot drop boxes ahead of the 2024 election, overturning a 2022 decision from the court’s prior conservative majority that largely barred their use in this potential swing... Read More

WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., who already announced he would not seek reelection, surprised many on Capitol Hill on Friday by announcing he plans to leave April 19, several months before his current term is up. Gallagher’s impending departure... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday struck down Republican-drawn legislative maps and ordered new district boundary lines in the perennial battleground state to be drawn before the 2024 election. In its 4-3 ruling, the court majority held... Read More

MADISON, Wisc. — A county circuit court judge in Wisconsin has ruled that the 1849 law on which the state bases its abortion prohibition does not actually apply to abortion at all. As a result, abortions are now once again... Read More

MADISON, Wisc. — Voting rights advocacy groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday that asks the Wisconsin Supreme Court to throw out a state districting map they say reflects gerrymandering by Republicans. The lawsuit was filed one day after a justice was... Read More

WASHINGTON — A slew of high-profile local elections are taking place across the nation on Tuesday, but perhaps none is bigger and being more closely watched than the race for a state Supreme Court justice in Wisconsin. Heading into Tuesday’s... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers plans to travel across Wisconsin this week to highlight economic initiatives in his 2023-25 biennial budget, a budget that was rejected March 23 by the State Building Commission. The state panel voted 4-4 on... Read More

WASHINGTON — With the Senate chamber evenly split, 50-50, and several top Senate races simply too close to forecast, 2022 may well come to be remembered as the year of the prolonged wait to determine which party ultimately holds control... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency has issued an emergency fuel waiver to help alleviate fuel shortages in four midwestern states whose supply of gasoline has been impacted by an electrical fire at a BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana. The... Read More

WASHINGTON — There will be no shortage of names on the ballots in four states as 2022’s elongated primary season continues. Some of the contests have already taken unexpected twists and turns and all, on some level, will be a... Read More

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — As Wisconsin's longest-serving Assembly speaker, Republican Robin Vos has presided over efforts to restrict abortions, weaken unions, expand gun rights and push back against COVID-19 mandates. Despite that, he's facing a primary challenger who claims he's not conservative enough.... Read More

WASHINGTON — A site selection panel has selected Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the host city for the 2024 Republican National Convention. The panel’s pick isn’t the final word, however, as the full RNC must approve the selection committee’s choice at its... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Friday approved new state legislative district maps drawn by Republicans in the state Legislature, tossing its earlier approval of maps submitted by the state’s Democratic governor. The decision is the latest... Read More

MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee area is an unfortunate example of how economic decline can work injustices on the Black population, according to witnesses at a congressional field hearing Tuesday. From its heyday as the nation’s machine shop in the mid-1960s,... Read More

WASHINGTON — The Wisconsin Supreme Court erred in not sufficiently considering the actual requirements of the Voting Rights Act when it imposed a map drawn by Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers over other proposals, the U.S. Supreme Court said on... Read More

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Supreme Court approved a new set of congressional and state legislative district maps on Thursday that had been proposed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. “Hell yes,” said Evers in a statement released by his office... Read More

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A joyous scene of marching bands and children dancing in Santa hats and waving pompoms turned deadly in an instant, as an SUV sped through barricades and into a Christmas parade in suburban Milwaukee, killing at... Read More

WASHINGTON — A jury on Friday found Kyle Rittenhouse, the Wisconsin teenger who fatally shot two protesters and wounded a third, not guilty of murder and other felony charges. The shootings occurred last summer during demonstrations in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in... Read More

RACINE, Wis. — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers offered a rebuke of state House Speaker Robin Vos’ comments in response to a Racine County Sheriff’s Office investigation into election law violations at a long-term care facility for elderly residents. Vos issued... Read More

MADISON, Wis. -- Congressional and legislative district maps that have been used in electoral contests for the past decade should not be used as the starting point for drawing new boundaries using 2020 census data, Wisconsin Democrats say in a... Read More

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Ron Kind, who took office in 1997 and is easily Wisconsin's longest-serving member of Congress, stunned reporters Tuesday by announcing he won't seek reelection in 2022. “The truth is, I’ve run out of gas,” the Democrat said.... Read More

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden will look to sell voters on the economic benefits of the $973 billion infrastructure package while in Wisconsin on Tuesday, hoping to boost the bipartisan agreement that is held together in large part by... Read More

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by former President Donald Trump to nullify his election loss in Wisconsin, rejecting the last remaining appeal seeking to overturn Joe Biden’s victory. In an unsigned order, the justices... Read More

President Joe Biden will visit Wisconsin next week for his first official trip as president, participating in a TV town hall from Milwaukee. Biden will take questions at a socially-distanced, invitation-only event hosted by CNN next Tuesday night, according to... Read More