Some family members say department leadership is at least partly to blame, accusing it of ignoring struggling deputies. The ...

Some family members say department leadership is at least partly to blame, accusing it of ignoring struggling deputies. The department says it had mental health programs in place and has since ...

Normally synchronized with the president, Rep. Derrick Van Orden has moved to the center on a couple of major issues. Is he ...

The railroad company got a lot of federal funding for the station in 2021. But even with rail lines already in place, it could take more than a decade before passenger trains come to Wisconsin's ...

Elected officials in Wisconsin must submit reports on their finances to the state. Here is the report from the court’s most right-wing justice. Justice Rebecca Bradley joined the court in 2015 when ...

Moore was first elected to Congress in 2004 after serving many years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate. She sits on the influential Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax-writing, ...

Nicholas is a Partner at the law firm Kramer, Elkins & Watt in Madison. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2010. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Illinois.

Grothman was first elected to Congress in 2014 after more than 20 years in the Wisconsin State Legislature. He sits on the committees overseeing the federal budget, Education and the Workforce, and he ...

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It’s common for legislators, who make about $61,000 a year, to have a second job. The state Senate and Assembly each meet for only part of the year, allowing elected members to seek additional work.

“The redistricting after the 2010 Census did not change the partisan makeup of the 6th Congressional District. The 6th has been safely Republican for over 50 years. The last Democrat elected to ...