Scott Walker News

VOLK FIELD, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker welcomed back the Wisconsin Air National Guard's 128th Air Control Squadron Friday night.

On a media call this week state and national budget experts, including former chair of the US House Appropriations Committee Congressman Dave Obey, revealed that federal funding for Badger- Care is very secure, and much more certain than much of the $19.6 billion federal dollars in Governor Walker's budget proposal.

Milwaukee Public Schools ' Rufus King International School has won ACT's national College and Career Transition Award for high schools.

Governor Scott Walker will return to northwest Wisconsin this weekend to fish Lake Namakagon after missing out on the annual Governor's Fishing Opener in early May.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was the keynote speaker at the annual Prescott Bush Awards Dinner on Monday and addressed a sold out crowd with his message of optimism, relevance and courage.

Mayor Charlie Hales hasn't been especially cozy with the city's big three public safety unions since taking office.

The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime suspects.

Aly Wolff, a UW-Oshkosh student from the Madison area, was organizing a run/walk fundraiser for the American Cancer Society when she died from cancer in April.

Police Chief Edward Flynn on Friday blasted the Legislature's budget committee for what he called "gratuitous" decisions that killed a community policing grant for his department and set in motion the departure of the state crime lab from Milwaukee.

MADISON Stephanie Walker starts June 17th as the fourth chief financial officer in two years for the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.

Early Tuesday morning before a gathering of Milwaukee's civic and business leaders at the Italian Conference Center, Mayor Tom Barrett touted the future of his city by the lake.

"Things are looking much better for us," said Cullen, president and chief executive officer of J.P. Cullen & Sons, the Janesville construction company that now includes a fifth generation of family members and last week issued 574 paychecks.

There were plenty of recriminations Thursday night, as the legislature's Joint Finance Committee voted on a budget amendment for the University of Wisconsin System.

West Des Moines, Iowa - Amid growing speculation that Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is testing GOP presidential waters in Iowa and elsewhere, progressive activists warned Thursday at a rally here that a Walker presidency would be "terrifying" and disastrous to middle-class families.

A fishing tradition in the Badger State is about to get better just in time for the extended holiday weekend.

Yes, you heard that right . It's one of dozens of non-budget related extremist measures he's neatly tucked inside his must-pass budget.

A proposal from Gov. Scott Walker to allow statewide GPS tracking for those under restraining orders was scaled back by the Legislature's budget committee Thursday as the panel took on a slew of criminal justice provisions.

At about 11:30 a.m., crews responded to the Hilltop Place apartments in the 3400 block of Hilltop Way.

Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett and Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele came together to help break ground on a new business center in the city.

The state Legislature's Joint Finance Committee will consider a budget measure Thursday that includes up to $3 million for additional GPS monitoring over the next two years.