Wisconsin News

February is Black History Month, and recently digitized documents in Wisconsin in the Civil War open a window onto one aspect of African-American history largely hidden until now - how were slaves and black refugees viewed by Wisconsin troops? Our state sent more than 90,000 soldiers to the war.

Poor ice conditions and low water clarity are blamed for a weak start to the sturgeon-spearing season on Lake Winnebago.

MADISON - Wisconsin crime victims wouldn't have to testify against their attackers during the early stages of their cases under a Republican bill making its way through the Legislature.

Speaking to an audience of 78 town officials from Kenosha, Racine and Walworth Counties Thursday, February 9, 2012, Lt.

Racine County, Wisconsin, has put inmates from the county jail to work shoveling snow, mowing the medians on highways and doing landscaping.

A scientist and former staff members of Auburn-Washburn Unified School District 437 will be inducted into the Washburn Rural High School Alumni Association Hall of Fame on Friday, said district spokesman Martin Weishaar.

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

MADISON -- Saturday marked a year since Gov. Scott Walker 'dropped the bomb,' as he privately described it, announcing his proposal to all but end collective bargaining for most public workers.

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.

The state teachers union is taking criticism from some members around the state for an early endorsement of Kathleen Falk in the likely recall election against Gov.

Inland Construction was awarded the 2,700-square-foot tenant improvement project for Divorce Financial Solutions at 126 N. Jefferson St.

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.

Lawyers for a man who was sexually abused decades ago by a priest at a Wisconsin school for the deaf have withdrawn their lawsuit naming Pope Benedict XVI and other top Vatican officials as defendants, a major victory for the Holy See, which has long insisted the pope bears no liability for the actions of an abusive priest.

February 11 marks the one-year anniversary of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's formal announcement about his plans to strip collective bargaining rights from most public employees in the state.

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

When Debra Yach, 34, of Plover participated in her first Walk Wisconsin event in 2005 with co-workers, she never expected the event would blossom into an annual family tradition.

It is both the veins and arteries of Wisconsin. It carries cars and commerce more than 700 miles from north to south and east to west across Wisconsin.

Ross Brown, founder of We The People of the Republic, said Verify the Recall has gathered enough evidence in its vetting process to possibly put the brakes on the attempted recall of Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald .

MILWAUKEE - Ministry Health Care has strengthened the breadth and depth of its services by acquiring all of Affinity Health Care in Wisconsin.

Last week, Democrats in the state legislature sent a letter to the Wisconsin Department of Administration decrying the government's Capitol access policy.