Wisconsin Government News

Democrats who control the state Senate have unveiled a package of proposals they said will help create and retain jobs and businesses and improve worker education and training.

Unemployment rates dropped for the third straight month in southwest Wisconsin. According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, the jobless rate declined a full percentage point in Grant County, from 7.1 percent in August to 6.1 percent in September.

It was just a little story on the Associated Press wire: "Wis. highway fatalities down 11 percent so far." Wisconsin, apparently, is continuing its trend of fewer people killed in highway crashes.

Wisconsin wildlife officials are warning hunters they'll probably take fewer deer than last year.

Members of the Wisconsin Army Reserve may be at Fort Hood, Texas, the site of Thursday's shooting that killed 12 and injured 31.

Bankruptcy filings in the state are up about 30 percent from this time last year, particularly among seniors struggling with medical expenses.

Gov. Jim Doyle wants to officially say "thank you" to snowplow drivers. As winter closes in, the governor has declared Tuesday as Snowplow Driver Appreciation Day.

An unemployed Wisconsin teen spent the first 19 years of his life as Calvin Gosz, but after selling his naming rights you can now call him Verkkokauppa Com.

A Wisconsin man who got his cheesehead hat signed by President Barack Obama has decided to donate it to a museum rather than sell it on eBay.Mansfield Neblett told The Associated Press in an e-mail Friday he decided to donate the triangular, bright yellow hat to the Wisconsin Historical Society.

Gov. Jim Doyle plans to meet with employees and company leaders at Mercury Marine in Fond du Lac.

The first snowflakes of the season have already fallen on parts of Wisconsin. As a result, the 511 Traveler Information System, a service of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, has activated its winter road condition report feature.

A comprehensive toughening of Wisconsin's notoriously weak drunken driving laws moved a step closer to becoming law Thursday with unanimous approval by the state Senate.

The state Senate has approved a bill that would create a new public financing system for state Supreme Court campaigns.

Federal agents descended on a small community on the Navajo Indian reservation early Thursday to make an arrest in the slaying of a nun whose body was found in her home on church property.

The state Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging Wisconsin's domestic partner registry.

Pushing for a link between student test scores and teacher pay, President Barack Obama on Wednesday dangled $5 billion in federal grants to states willing to undertake a top-to-bottom overhaul of their schools in support of the White House's priorities.

MADISON, Wis. - Federal stimulus money created or saved more than 10,000 jobs in Wisconsin, President Barack Obama's administration reported Friday.

Gov. Deval Patrick is making a two-day trip to Washington focused on state economic development and health care issues.

Police in Wisconsin are investigating after finding evidence that the family of a mentally disabled man had often chained him to a pole in their basem ...

Child care providers convicted of numerous crimes, including child abuse, would be barred from participating in Wisconsin's troubled subsidy program under a bill headed to the full Legislature.