(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction’s new changes to its 1–5 star school ratings leave parents unclear on local school performance, according to a report by the Institute for Reforming Government.

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Elections Commission ordered the city of Madison to undertake new administrative and procedural changes for future elections.

(The Center Square) – Data center projects across Wisconsin have been moving forward as the state’s energy demands are set to increase significantly in upcoming years and transmission rates in the state have already increased.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s unemployment rate was at 3.1% in July, down from 3.2% in June. The state’s labor force participation rate dropped slightly to 65.0%.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin has seen a series of large damage totals from flooding since 1997, with the largest being $49 million in flood insurance claims in 2008 along with $24 million in 2018.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s two largest dairy groups can continue with their case against Wisconsin’s special environmental prosecutor.

(The Center Square) – The waterways, rice beds and water quality around the Bad River Band reservation in northern Wisconsin will be permanently impacted by a 41-mile reroute of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline off reservation land and instead surrounding it,…

(The Center Square) – The latest report on school choice in Wisconsin says choice schools not only deliver better results, but they do it for far less money than traditional public schools.

(The Center Square) – Two lawsuits have been filed by The Badger Project looking for records of law enforcement officers who were fired or forced to resign.

(The Center Square) – Gov. Tony Evers is blaming the Trump Administration for a potential $29 million funding cut that Evers says will block Wisconsin from completing the process of modernizing its unemployment insurance system.

(The Center Square) – Madison City Attorney and Clerk Mike Haas is questioning election procedural changes for the city the Wisconsin Elections Commission plans to vote on Friday.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers could consider legal action to keep $62.4 million in solar energy grants that are being pulled by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, according to a spokesperson for the governor.

(The Center Square) – Democrat Racine County resident Mitchell Berman launched his campaign for Wisconsin’s 1st Congressional District on Tuesday, challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Bryan Steil.

(The Center Square) – There are not a lot of high expectations for Wisconsin’s next state school report cards.

(The Center Square) – Opening statements were given Tuesday as the groups contesting permits for a Line 5 reroute around the Bad River Band reservation claimed the plan continues to carry heavy risk and those supporting the 41-mile new section…

(The Center Square) – The up to $100 million in state tax incentives for a $3 billion Eli Lilly expansion in Kenosha County isn’t the only tax incentive for the project.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers vetoed a bill that would have created specialty treatment and business courts in the state.

(The Center Square) – Milwaukee’s congresswoman says the push to redraw Wisconsin’s political map is nothing like the push from Texas Republicans to redraw theirs.

(The Center Square) – Judges and jurors in Wisconsin will soon see expanded protections take effect, thanks to a pair of bills signed into law Friday by Gov. Tony Evers that are set to reshape how courts safeguard their privacy…

(The Center Square) - Flooding in the Milwaukee area left cars and people stranded Saturday night into Sunday morning.