University Of Wisconsin System To End Mask Mandate By Spring Break
University of Wisconsin System officials said Wednesday they plan to end their campus mask mandates by spring break.
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University of Wisconsin System officials said Wednesday they plan to end their campus mask mandates by spring break.
The National Rifle Association has registered in support of the bills. Opponents include the cities of Madison and groups representing school boards, administrators and survivors of domestic abuse.
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate was scheduled to vote Tuesday on measures that push back against COVID-19 vaccine requirements and aim to shield workers who do not want to protect themselves from the virus by being inoculated.
Evers rarely meets with GOP leaders and Republicans are advancing a conservative agenda that they know Evers will veto but that will give them fodder to use on the campaign trail. In areas where the governor and lawmakers have come together, such as the two state budgets Evers signed into law, they have squabbled over who can take credit.
Police say 50-year-old John Wesley Brown, of Racine, shot four males and one female and after a brief foot chase died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound as officers closed in about 2 a.m. Sunday.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell, also a purveyor of false claims that Trump won the 2020 election, endorsed Ramthun, telling the crowd that filled a high school auditorium he would be "the greatest governor Wisconsin has ever seen."
Police say that the man lost control of his snowmobile along a marked trail. The Polk County Sheriff's Office is looking into whether alcohol was a factor in the crash.
Darrell Brooks Jr., 39, was expected to enter a plea to 77 charges, including six counts of homicide and multiple counts of reckless endangerment.
A state lawmaker who has won praise from former President Donald Trump for his attempts to reverse President Joe Biden's win in Wisconsin filed paperwork Thursday to run for governor, a move that would shake up the Republican primary.
State health officials did not identify the individual who died or provide their hometown.
The push to legalize marijuana in Wisconsin enjoys some bipartisan support, but backers of bills that would make it legal for either medical or recreational use say it won't happen this year.
Two people are in custody after a seven-hour long standoff in western Wisconsin.
A Wisconsin couple is about $150 million richer after claiming a jackpot-winning Powerball ticket.
Republican pressure on state and local elections officials increased exponentially after Donald Trump refused to concede his defeat to President Joe Biden in Wisconsin. Biden won by nearly 21,000 votes, an outcome that has withstood recounts, investigations and lawsuits. There is no evidence of widespread fraud, as Trump and others have falsely claimed.
A high school football coach in Polk County has been charged with sexually assaulting a student last year in the school's weight room.
