On Aug. 28, Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski, during a hearing for a defendant charged with triple homicide, learned the defendant had used a county jail-issued tablet to discuss threatening ...

Incumbent Democrat Josh Kaul repeatedly sues Trump administration; Republican Eric Toney faults Kaul’s crime lab testing.

Wisconsin Watch is partnering with the Center for Media Engagement on a program aimed at identifying and fact-checking falsehoods.

Policymakers touted the law’s goal of keeping top students in-state and demystifying UW-Madison’s admissions. Early results raise doubts about its impact.

Several courthouses in the northern Wisconsin do not regularly screen visitors for weapons, The Badger Project found. But adding scanning machines would cost a lot.

Though Republican lawmakers have pushed for stricter voting rules, Gov. Tony Evers has blocked those efforts at several turns during his eight years in office, leaving election policy changes in a ...

Conspiracy theories circulated after the Milwaukee error in August, but logs of what happened reveal nothing askew.

Milwaukee County sales and property taxes have increased under County Executive David Crowley. The Democratic nominee in the Nov. 3 election for governor takes credit for “the largest property tax cut ...

The transmission utility filed a revised application after Wisconsin regulators ordered it to start over amid repeated project changes.

Tom Tiffany, the northern Wisconsin Republican running for governor in the Nov. 3 election, has rarely diverged from supporting President Donald Trump since Trump began his second term in January 2025 ...

Nearly 1 in 5 pedestrians killed in Wisconsin crashes since 2017 were suspected of drinking, showing that alcohol poses risks beyond impaired driving.