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A Wisconsin judge ruled against the state prison system on Thursday, saying its COVID-19 visitor policy that barred Catholic clergy from meeting with inmates for more than a year violated state law and the state constitution's guarantee of religious freedom.
One week after a baby alligator was found swimming in a Wisconsin lake just southwest of Green Bay, another alligator was found roaming around, this time in Kenosha.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch on Thursday reported raising more than $3.6 million over the first six months of the year.
Wisconsin's longtime Democratic secretary of state said Thursday he's not worried about a Republican opponent outraising him more than 6-to-1.
Wisconsin voters must place their own absentee ballots in the mail and can't have someone do it for them, the state's chief election administrator said Thursday.
John Andrews, of Chilton, pleaded guilty in 1994 to homicide by negligent use of a motor vehicle in the death of 67-year-old Starkie Swenson, who went missing in 1983.
A federal judge is siding with the Sun Prairie School District in a lawsuit filed by two Black parents who objected to their children's middle school assignment that asked students how they would punish a slave in ancient Mesopotamia.
It will soon be a little tougher to find a sweet treat in western Wisconsin. A beloved River Falls cookie shop is calling it quits. And as WCCO found out, bakeries everywhere are being burned.
When Tim Michels was president of the board of the Wisconsin Transportation Builders Association during the 2007-2008 legislative session, the group's lobbyists opposed an Assembly bill that would have prevented companies that employ "illegal aliens" from getting government contracts, tax exemptions and loans.
Majority Leader Jim Steineke said the Legislature's two-year session ended in March and lawmakers aren't coming back to do anything before the new session starts in January so it makes sense to enter the private sector now.
People from across the Midwest traveled to western Wisconsin on Friday to pay their respects to a man they never met.
DNR research scientist Gary Montz says that the hatching phenomenon in the Mississippi River occurs as the burrowing mayflies emerge all at once to mate, lay eggs, and then die.
Former Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson endorsed construction company co-owner Tim Michels for governor on Friday, after Thompson decided against a run earlier this year.
An animal rescue team has the reptile now. They say he probably was released into the lake by his owner or simply got away.
A man believed to be connected to the overdose death of a 32-year-old in western Wisconsin is in custody, authorities say.
