Vos expands 2020 election investigation
The highest-ranking Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly said Friday that he was expanding a probe into the 2020 presidential election, saying it will take more investigators and time than originally planned.
Author: Scott Bauer, Associated Press
Wisconsin COVID-19 cases 7 times higher than month ago
Positive cases of COVID-19 in Wisconsin on Wednesday were twice as high as a week ago and seven times as high as a month ago.
Wisconsin Republican promises forensic election audit
The Republican head of the Wisconsin Assembly elections committee said Monday she will ensure there is a “comprehensive, forensic examination” of ballots cast in the 2020 presidential election.
Unvaccinated in Wisconsin are ‘sitting duck’ for COVID-19
“Every COVID 19 death is now a preventable death,” DHS deputy secretary Julie Willems Van Dijk said Thursday.
Wisconsin attorney general race heating up
Wisconsin’s race for attorney general is heating up, with Democratic incumbent Josh Kaul officially launching his reelection bid and a Republican challenger reporting a record-high amount of fundraising for this point in the campaign.
Bigger, more diverse panel to search for next UW president
A larger, more diverse search committee to find the next University of Wisconsin System president was named Friday, following a failed search last year that was widely criticized for breaking with tradition and not including members representing faculty, staff and students.
Evers vetoes bills financing purchase of closed paper mills, creating human resources office
Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday vetoed a bipartisan bill designed to help save two shuttered paper mills and another measure criticized by open records advocates to create a human resources office for the Legislature, saying it would shield documents from public release.
Evers signs GOP-written state budget with $2 billion tax cut
Evers, a Democrat who is running for reelection next year, planned to sign the budget Thursday.
What's in the Republicans' proposed state budget? These are the highlights.
The Assembly was scheduled to vote on the $87 billion spending plan on Tuesday. The Senate was expected to follow suit on Wednesday and send the document to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who can use his partial veto powers to rewrite the document or kill it outright.
Eliminating Wisconsin business property tax gains momentum
A bipartisan push to end a tax Wisconsin businesses pay on property that has long been targeted for elimination gained momentum Wednesday, even as Democratic Gov. Tony Evers remained silent on whether he will sign or veto the bill.
Wisconsin Republicans send election bills to governor
The Wisconsin Assembly sent bills to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers on Tuesday that would make it more difficult for the elderly and disabled to cast absentee ballots and prohibit officials from filling in missing information on the envelopes of returned absentee ballots.
Wisconsin high court strikes down incapacitated driver law
A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down a state law Friday that allowed for taking blood samples from suspected drunken drivers who are incapacitated, ruling that it is unconstitutional.
Heads of Wisconsin’s largest school districts ‘dismayed’ federal aid at risk
The superintendents of Wisconsin’s five largest school districts told members of the Legislature on Tuesday that they’re “dismayed” that $2.3 billion in federal aid is at risk because of low funding for K-12 schools.
Highlights of the Wisconsin state budget: what's in, what's out so far
How much and what taxes to cut is one of the largest remaining questions for the Legislature’s budget-writing committee to tackle this week as it nears the end of its work writing the state budget.
Republicans to extend land stewardship program 4 years
Republicans who control the state Legislature plan to extend Wisconsin’s contentious land stewardship program for four years, rather than another decade as Democratic Gov. Tony Evers wanted.
Wisconsin Senate to vote on police chokehold restrictions
The Wisconsin Senate is poised to vote on a bill banning police from using chokeholds, except in life-threatening situations or to defend themselves.
Wisconsin GOP election bills draw bipartisan opposition
The Wisconsin Senate plans to approve bills Wednesday making it more difficult to vote absentee and creating new penalties for violating election law, measures that have drawn bipartisan opposition and are almost certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.
Evers says vetoing entire state budget is an option
Evers said Tuesday it was too early to say whether he would veto the entire budget.
Assembly Speaker Robin Vos hires retired police to investigate election
One of Wisconsin’s top Republican lawmakers said Wednesday he is hiring retired police officers to investigate the presidential election won by President Joe Biden in the battleground state.
27 cases of potential voter fraud identified in Wisconsin
Wisconsin election officials identified just over two dozen potential cases of voter fraud in the November presidential election and forwarded them to local district attorneys for possible prosecution, based on documents obtained Friday by The Associated Press under the state’s open records law.
Wisconsin disabled community opposes election law changes
Disability Rights Wisconsin estimates that 23% of registered in voters in the state have some sort of disability, based on data from the American Association of People with Disabilities.
Wisconsin Assembly passes bill that would require national anthem at sporting events
The national anthem would have to be played before all sporting events held at Wisconsin venues that received any public funding under a mostly symbolic bill passed Tuesday by the state Assembly.
Wisconsin GOP-led Legislature approves election law changes
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Legislature took up bills Tuesday that would make it more difficult to vote absentee — proposals that were all but certain to be vetoed by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers but that GOP lawmakers said were needed to address issues that arose during last year’s presidential election.
GOP eyeing tax cut as they prepare to gut Evers’ plan
Republicans who head the Legislature’s budget committee told Wisconsin’s business leaders on Wednesday that they are optimistic a tax cut will be a part of the next two-year spending plan, although they said details on what type and how much were still being discussed.
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