City Clerk Nikki Elsen said the last remaining regular license and one of the city's few reserve licenses are expected to be granted at Thursday's city council meeting. 

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Historian Tony Dierckins traces how water and rail fueled the region’s rise and rivalry — with highways and new shipping patterns later shifting that balance.

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While they share many of the same policy goals — expanding Medicaid, developing a public health insurance option and increasing rural access to health care — the seven contenders at the forum differed on approach.

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Liberal Justice-elect Chris Taylor's dominant victory continued two trends. Liberals can't seem to lose statewide judicial races. And the pendulum keeps swinging in their direction.

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The lopsided outcome reflects broader unease in Wisconsin over the rapid expansion of data center developments, seen both in recent polling and in local opposition across the state.

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The biggest city in Waukesha County has elected a Democratic mayor. 

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A bipartisan group of prosecutors say they couldn't prove beyond a reasonable doubt that either mayor broke any laws.

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Fired Universities of Wisconsin President Jay Rothman told The Associated Press on Wednesday in his first interview since the ouster that he was “blindsided” by the move but has no hard feelings and is unlikely to sue.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court’s liberal majority will grow after state Appeals Judge Chris Taylor was elected to a 10-year term Tuesday.

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The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents has voted to fire the leader of the state's public university system.

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Antitrust lawsuits from across the country against three fire truck manufacturers — including two based in Wisconsin — will now be centralized in a federal court in the Badger State.

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ICE arrested Salah Sarsour for accusations of lying on his immigration forms and posing a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

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Wisconsin Democrats are condemning President Donald Trump's statement Tuesday that "A whole civilization will die tonight" if a deal is not reached in the war in Iran. 

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Rockwell Automation has filed zoning applications to develop what the company is calling a state-of-the-art factory in New Berlin.

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American journalist Shelly Kittleson, a Wisconsin native who was kidnapped from a Baghdad streetcorner last week, has been released, an Iraqi official with direct knowledge of the situation said on Tuesday.

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Wisconsin voters are deciding the fate of another state Supreme Court race on Tuesday, while also weighing in on a plethora of local races and referenda.

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Milwaukee's teacher union is calling out recently announced staff cuts at Milwaukee Public Schools.

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The town of Hayward doesn’t see $1.5 billion business opportunities coming its way every day, and even fewer that would connect forestry to sustainable energy. But that's the idea behind a proposed partnership between a German firm and a local timber business to build a plant that would convert woody biomass into sustainable aviation fuel. 

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The new mobile model is designed to make those experiences more accessible to communities around the state.

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