Wisconsin News

WASHINGTON, DC , November 6, 2009 - Representatives of 400 federally recognized tribal nations from across the United States gathered at the Department of the Interior Thursday at the invitation of President Barack Obama for a conference the President called a "unique and historic event, the largest and most widely attended gathering of tribal ...

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

WASHINGTON a ' Using stimulus dollars as bait, President Obama is coaxing states to rewrite education laws and cut deals with unions as they compete for $5 billion in education grants, the most money a president has ever had for overhauling schools.

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

Three years removed from high school, Amy Krueger was in an Army Reserve recruiting office the day after the terrorist attacks of Sept.

A social worker who worked in Madison is in critical condition after the Fort Hood attack.

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.

A Cashton mother says there were no warning signs before her 21-month-old daughter died after contracting the H1N1 flu.

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.

The uncle of a Wisconsin soldier says his nephew is among the soldiers killed in the Fort Hood shootings.

One soldier from Wisconsin was killed and two others were hurt in the shooting massacre at the Fort Hood Army Base on Thursday.

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.

State justice officials want to hear from the public on a new rule that calls for police to collect racial data during traffic stops.

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

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