Dented by income tax cuts and a marked spending slowdown on education, Wisconsin's national status as a tax hell is fading.

Wisconsin students will have another month to try to win hundreds of dollars for college.

Wisconsin's deer meat donation program is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Under the state Department of Natural Resources' Venison Donation Program, hunters drop off deer at participating meat processors.

A Wisconsin soldier injured in the Fort Hood shootings is home for the holidays, making Thanksgiving all the more special for his family.

Gov. Jim Doyle has issued an executive order giving farmers another month to transport heavy harvest loads.

Critics are blasting the appointment of Ken Black as secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Veterans Affairs, saying he was involved in many of the agency's recent missteps.

MADISON -- Wisconsin's wet autumn has led Gov. Jim Doyle to issue an executive order allowing farmers to haul overweight loads on most roads to get their crops to storage or processing.

He is one of two Democrats aiming to replace Jim Doyle as Wisconsin's governor. Doyle is not running for a third term.

A big-game biologist says snowier weather heading for Wisconsin over Thanksgiving likely won't affect the outcome of the deer gun season.

State regulators have approved higher electric and natural gas rates for Wisconsin Power & Light customers.

The agency that manages Wisconsin's pension fund has tightened its travel policy to discourage employees from taking expensive business-class flights, a practice that had become routine in recent years.

State health officials say there are 11 additional swine flu-related deaths in Wisconsin in the past week.

A Wisconsin woman is among 32 men and women from across the U.S. selected as Rhodes Scholars for 2010.

Wisconsin health officials have expanded the group that can receive vaccination for swine flu to include all school-aged children and young adults up to age 24.

A Wisconsin man transformed his apartment into a pornographic shrine to young girls, arranging mannequins in a sex act, plastering the walls with photos and setting up a bed covered with stuffed animals, investigators said Monday.

Two brothers have been sentenced to prison for plotting to burn down a northern Wisconsin bar in exchange for a construction contract.

A former Wisconsin teacher's aide was accused of having a sexual relationship with a 12-year-old boy.

Share + Nov 22, 2009 9:23 am US/Central 1 of 1 The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has harvested a 44-foot tree for the front lawn of the Governor's mansion.

Madison a ' State Division of Motor Vehicle Offices will close Friday so employees can take their fourth furlough day this year.

The state Department of Transportation says in its 20-year plan released this week that federal economic stimulus money does not solve immediate or long-term funding needs.