Republican leaders in the Wisconsin Legislature are punching back after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers told state agencies to publish rules on topics like water quality, licensing and wolf management without waiting for GOP-led committees to sign off. They're doing so by telling the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau it can't publish rules until committees have weighed in.

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Gov. Tony Evers is telling state agencies not to wait for Republican-led legislative committees to sign off on a backlog of administrative rules covering topics ranging from wolf management to professional licensing.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany says the U.S. Department of Justice should investigate the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa for charging the Town of Lac du Flambeau hundreds of thousands of dollars to use roads crossing reservation land.

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A woman accused of killing two teenagers while driving drunk is back in the Dane County Jail after briefly being held in an immigration detention facility.

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A child pornography case in Eau Claire County is testing a recently enacted state law, because the images that brought six felony charges were created entirely by AI. The defendant's attorney has vowed to challenge the constitutionality of Wisconsin's virtual child porn law.

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Fond du Lac District Attorney Eric Toney has been appointed to oversee the investigation of Wausau Mayor Doug Diny's removal of a ballot drop box ahead of the 2024 election. Toney, a well known Republican, previously praised the Wisconsin Supreme Court's former conservative majority when it banned the use of drop boxes in 2022.

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Advocates pushing to create an independent redistricting process in Wisconsin say they're alarmed by a partisan push in other states to lock in control of Congress through targeted redistricting.

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Two facilities providing housing and substance abuse counseling for veterans are slated to close by the end of September. Now, a pair of bills from Democratic and Republican lawmakers aim to save them with around $2 million that was cut amid bipartisan state budget negotiations.

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The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents is paying $265,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a woman who says she was demoted from a diversity, equity and inclusion leadership position because she is white.

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President Donald Trump says he's ordering a new census that will exclude undocumented immigrants for the first time in U.S. history.

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In their latest attempts to make Wisconsin's congressional voting map more favorable to Democrats ahead of the 2026 midterm elections, liberal law firms are pushing for an untested process first created by Republican state lawmakers in 2011.

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Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives have taken a page from Wisconsin's not-too-distant political past by walking out of their state Capitol and holing up in states like Illinois.

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Republican U.S. Rep. Bryan Steil was met by a hostile audience attempting to shout him down Thursday evening during his first town hall gathering since the passage of President Donald Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill Act." 

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Sheriff Kalvin Barrett said deportation would allow the suspect to evade accountability for her alleged crimes, while U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is labeling the county as a "sanctuary jurisdiction" that won't help the federal agency "remove this public safety threat from the U.S." 

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Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley says he's planning to enter a growing field of Democrats running for the first open seat for Wisconsin governor since 2010.

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Wisconsin's political world was turned upside down Thursday by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' announcement that he won't seek a third term in office.

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A statement issued by the La Crosse Police Department just before 1:00 p.m. said Eliotte Heinz's body was recovered at around 10:28 a.m. by the Houston County Sheriff's Department.

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When adjusted for inflation, Wisconsin's per-pupil spending on public school students continues to fall behind the national average, according to U.S. Census data analyzed by the Wisconsin Policy Forum.

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Early fundraising numbers in Wisconsin's competitive 3rd Congressional District show Republican U.S. Rep. Derrick Van Orden and second-time Democratic challenger Rebecca Cooke are virtually tied.

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Democratic Gov. Tony Evers raised about $760,000 during the first six months of 2025, well shy of the nearly $5.3 million he raised during the same period in his reelection bid four years ago.

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