Wisconsin Government News

A Wisconsin judge will reconsider a group's request to temporarily stop the state's new voter identification law before a trial begins.

The Scott Walker recall is already historic.A Last month, organizers submitted signatures from over a million Wisconsinites, the largest portion of an electorate to ever petition for recall of a United States governor.A The total - nearly double the number required - means near-certain certification by the state's election board of what will be the ... (more)

Wisconsin elections officials disclosed Monday that a 100-year-old white brick building two miles east of the state Capitol is the previously secret location where petitions seeking the recall of Gov.

When Governor Walker announced his proposal to strip public employees of most collective bargaining rights on February 11, 2011 - little over a month after taking office - he knew he would hear trouble from the historically progressive, pro-labor state of Wisconsin.

There were 393 infant deaths in Wisconsin in 2010, according to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

DELPHOS, Ohio Two farmers in northwestern Ohio say rustlers took about a dozen Holstein steers from their farm, and the two are offering a $1,000 reward for information about the theft.

Fact: Total sales by online retail giant Amazon increased by 79 percent-from $19.1 billion to $34.2 billion-between 2008 and 2010.

Sure, every Grammy Awards ceremony has a couple of musicians nominated for Best New Artist who aren't really new in any sense of the word.

The Upriver Lakes sturgeon spearing season is already finished after spearers harvested 20 adult females Sunday following the 66 on opening day, triggering the harvest limit of 83 total adult females.

I didn't have a lot of breaks growing up. I came from a dysfunctional family and moved around a lot as a kid.

As Wisconsin taxpayers are faced with an expensive recall election for governor , rank-and-file members of the state's largest teachers union are fuming mad over the endorsement of a candidate that was hand-picked by their leadership.

Tourism officials in Wisconsin and Michigan parlayed their dust-up over mittens into the collection of at least 3,100 pairs of mittens and other winter items.

State legislators agree something needs to be done about costs of engineering, consulting and surveying services, especially in a time of tight budgets.

Last week marked the one-year anniversary of Gov. Scott Walker introducing the bill to strip away union rights of public employees in Wisconsin.

State lawmakers might have jumped the gun by proposing hunting seasons for wolves and sandhill cranes.

The Senate Committee on Transportation and Elections February 9, 2012, meeting included Senate Bill 397 .

After repeated visits to his farm throughout 2009 and 2010 that resulted in an unprovoked quarantine, state and county officials in Wisconsin have charged Amish farmer Vernon Hershberger with violating state retail food laws by distributing raw milk to cow owners.

State Justice Department officials say they've gotten the deluge of concealed carry permit applications under control and are meeting turn-around deadlines again.

MADISON - Citing the negative role of money in judicial campaigns, two Wisconsin Supreme Court justices are calling for the state to consider ending direct elections of court members in favor of some form of merit selection.

In 1856 he moved to Madison and practiced law. During the Civil War, he served as captain in the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry from 1861-1862 and served as colonel of the 12th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry from 1862-1864. He led this regiment through campaigns in Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Atlanta .