(The Center Square) – A plan to use $9 million in settlement money to fund opioid initiatives in Milwaukee is being pushed through by County Executive David Crowley and could be given the OK as soon as next week.

(The Center Square) – The State Bar of Wisconsin will remove diversity, equity and inclusion language from its programs in a shift that is expected to reshape how the organization structures trainings and educational requirements in the future.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s elections managers are walking away from their investigation into nearly 200 uncounted absentee ballots in Madison.

(The Center Square) -- The latest snapshot of Wisconsin schools shows many schools are seeing fewer students, while others continue to spend more and get worse results.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives have launched an effort to urge the state Supreme Court to shut down the latest challenge to congressional maps before it can even start.

(The Center Square) – The U.S. Department of Transportation plans to give $21 million for improvements to Milwaukee’s PurpleLine transit in the near future.

(The Center Square) – A new bill to prevent the closure of two veterans’ homes is now on the table in Wisconsin.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation are giving more than $174 million in quarterly transportation aids to improve local roads around the state.

(The Center Square) – The city of Milwaukee has new rules for THC products.

(The Center Square) – Two Veterans Housing and Recovery Program facilities in Wisconsin are set to close by September following a lack of state funds in the current biennial budget.

(The Center Square) – Milwaukee County Transit System plans to use federal COVID-19 relief funds to close a projected $10.9 million budget deficit this year.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s northernmost congressman is fed up with smoke and haze from Canada.

(The Center Square) – Democratic Party of Wisconsin chair Devin Remiker said he wants current Gov. Tony Evers to run for reelection in 2026.

(The Center Square) – The head of the Wisconsin Elections Commission says she thinks Madison’s former city clerk broke the law when she didn’t count nearly 200 absentee ballots last November.

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investing a black bear attack in Barron County where a black bear allegedly attacked a 69-year-old woman in Comstock.

(The Center Square) – The Wisconsin Democracy Defense Project is applauding the Wisconsin Elections Commission report that showed former Madison City Clerk Maribeth Witzel-Behl broke the law by leaving 193 absentee ballots uncounted during the 2024 general election.

(The Center Square) – The University of Wisconsin System’s Board of Regents approve a 5% tuition increase for in-state undergraduate tuition for most of the UW campuses, leading to questions from several lawmakers who voted for a recent increase in…

(The Center Square) – Authorities and family members have put together the pieces from two crime scenes, and believe they add up to a murder-suidice involving one of the Wisconsin State Patrol’s top officials.

(The Center Square) – Legislation to prevent suspended judges from collecting their salaries was introduced in the Wisconsin state Legislature on Thursday.

(The Center Square) – Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources is set to proceed with a marsh dredging project that Gov. Tony Evers had previously vetoed funding for.