Politics

Legislative Republicans plan to bring back a proposal that would pay for the state’s school voucher program separately from how it funds the public school system.

Roughly 300 Haitians arrived in eastern Wisconsin under a Biden-era humanitarian parole program. Last week the federal government ended that program. Now community activists say their options for staying in the country legally are limited.

The emails used public information — like permit applications and public meeting records — to tailor demands to the targets.

Wisconsin U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden is joining in with other national lawmakers in spreading disinformation about an attack in Minnesota that left a Democratic state lawmaker dead over the weekend.

Republicans who run the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee voted Tuesday to add dozens of new prosecutors and public defender support staff across Wisconsin, but far fewer than Democratic Gov. Tony Evers asked for in his budget.

Nationwide, more than 600 incidents of threats and harassment were made against local elected officials in 2024, which a Princeton University group says was a 14 percent increase from the previous year.

Johnson said progress has been made on the bill as GOP lawmakers seek to boost border security and defense spending. But he stressed that more time is needed to address the nation’s debt.

The F-35 fighter jets began taking off from Madison in 2023 despite years of local opposition.

Wisconsin’s Democratic Attorney General challenged a law that was intended to limit the power of the state’s executive branch.

Neurosurgeon and professor Mahua Dey is concerned her team’s effort to develop a glioblastoma vaccine at UW-Madison could stall as sweeping actions by the Trump administration to curb federal health funding trickle down to individual labs.