Shaundel Washington-Spivey will be the next mayor of La Crosse, becoming the city's first leader who is Black and who is openly gay.

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Tuesday's Wisconsin Supreme Court election was unambiguously a good one for Democrats. The only debate is over how many superlatives to add.

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At issue is a six-year-old state law which gives the Legislature's Joint Committee on Finance the final say about whether to approval settlements in civil lawsuits prosecuted by state's attorney general.

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The state superintendent and education officials in northeast Wisconsin are calling on the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee to boost funding to K-12 schools in the next two-year state budget.

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The heads of the Universities of Wisconsin system and the state Department of Corrections faced critical questions from Republican state lawmakers Tuesday over requests for new state funding.

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Dane County Judge Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, preserving liberals’ 4-3 majority after a hard-fought, highly politicized contest that attracted national attention and shattered spending records.

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Wisconsin voters have agreed to add a voter ID requirement to the state constitution.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul and Gov. Tony Evers announced the state is among a group of Democratic attorneys general and governors from 23 states that is suing the Trump administration for abruptly cutting off about $11 billion in public health funding.

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A helpline Wisconsinites can call for support with their mental health or substance use will stop Saturday, April 5. It’s one of many services affected by recent federal cuts to over $210 million in health funds across the state, officials said.

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In the wake of sweeping federal funding cuts by the Trump Administration in recent weeks, U.S. Department of Agriculture grants that fund tribal colleges and universities in Wisconsin and beyond have vanished.

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Voters can show their IDs from a Wisconsin college or university in order to vote. But not all IDs are accepted.

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Unprecedented levels of funding backing either Dane County Judge Susan Crawford or Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel have come from across the country.

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The event came just two days before the closely-watched Wisconsin Supreme Court election between conservative Waukesha County Judge Brad Schimel and liberal Dane County Judge Susan Crawford. 

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A Wisconsin appellate court denied the state Democratic attorney general's request to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters at a rally planned for Sunday

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In his veto message, Evers said that even while "reasonable minds can disagree" over how to measure academic achievement, he objects to "the Legislature's attempts to undermine the constitutional authority and independence" of the DPI superintendent.

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Billionaire Elon Musk says he’ll visit Wisconsin to personally give $2 million to two people ahead of the state Supreme Court election, despite a state law that explicitly bans giving people anything of value in exchange for voting. Wisconsin Attorney General filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court Friday seeking to stop the event.

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With the election for a pivotal seat on Wisconsin's Supreme Court Tuesday, political pamphlets that look like local newspapers have been showing up in Wisconsinites' mail.

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Voters can't escape ads for the Wisconsin Supreme Court race on April 1, but the same election will also decide whether a voter ID requirement should be enshrined in the state constitution. We know more now about how the requirement impacts voting than we did when it was passed as a law 14 years ago.

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"It is a little disparaging when you've got so many people who are willing to rip on their own community publicly, but yet not be part of the solution," said Scott Stortz, Slinger's village president.

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Federal funding for Wisconsin library systems might be at risk after President Donald Trump ordered the elimination of an agency that provides financial support to libraries nationwide.

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