School districts can’t require eligible students to get the COVID-19 vaccine because it’s not a mandatory immunization like several others in the state -- but they track student and staff vaccinations.
In multiple reports, News 3 Investigates and other media outlets have reported people receiving tens of thousands in bills, due to filing mistakes the state blames on the claimants.
Steve Vignali of Appleton is weighing retirement. But first, he has to deal with about $12,000 in debt from overpaid unemployment benefits that Wisconsin's Department of Workforce Development says he owes.
At the City-County Building in Madison, where two floors house some of Dane County's highest security inmates, a row of narrow isolation cells stands mostly empty.
After the deadliest year in at least a decade, the city of Madison says it's planning new solutions for East Washington Avenue.
The COVID-19 pandemic overshadowed and worsened a deadly epidemic that touches so many in the country.
When Dominique Aldridge quit her job as a certified nursing assistant in Green Bay last March, it was because her three young children--two of them school-aged--suddenly had no daytime childcare when schools closed as COVID-19 first spread in Wisconsin.
New records show just how many of those who never left their job sites felt like they didn't have the luxury of the barest safety necessities at the workplaces where they were touted as essential.
Debbie Sweeney knew exactly what type of dog she wanted to replace her late Callie.
It's been four years this week since an explosion at the Didion Milling Inc. grain mill in Cambria killed five people and injured fourteen more, but almost $2 million in fines have gone unpaid in the years since.
Grant, finishing up second grade, had a rough go of it for most of the school year until his class transitioned back into mostly-in-person learning later in the spring semester.
Nearly half of Wisconsin's county-level prosecutors never used the hate crime penalty in criminal cases from 2016 to 2020, a News 3 Investigation found.
Toshiana Northington says David Lythjohan kicked and punched her and her children in the East Madison Woodman’s parking lot last summer, using racial slurs after he became angry when her shopping cart temporarily blocked his car. But Madison police did not include the incident in their hate crime reports.
News 3 Now Investigates found nearly 200 investigations based either partly or completely on hate in the last three years.
Police reform has been part of the national conversation for years, but police killings haven't declined along with it. For years, police have killed three people a day on average nationwide--a rate that has remained fairly steady. In Wisconsin, in an eight-year period from 2013 to 2020, police killed an average of about one person every three weeks--or 130 people during that time frame.
Sometimes, it's a daily battle. Other times, it's hour by hour. "I can't expect to have a good day tomorrow--or the next week." It's been nine months…
After a drunken fight, one man walked away with massive injuries and two others with battery charges. Today, Pennau is saddled with medical bills he can't pay and a failing credit score and financial setbacks he can't get out of. He believes that wouldn't be the case if it weren't for case delays brought about by COVID-19.
A newly-released audit from Wisconsin's non-partisan Legislative Audit Bureau found state agencies had incorrectly allocated about $1.1 million in federal COVID funds through June of last year, according to the report.
Dane County judges finalized a plan on Friday to resume jury trials starting June 1, a date well past a year after trials were first suspended in March by an order of the state Supreme Court due to the spread of COVID-19.
It doesn’t get much busier than a week in the life of Jessica Madley.
The state's top consumer protection leaders are warning folks to be on the lookout for any scams related to COVID vaccines.
After the Madison Police Department closed its investigation into an alleged hate crime that happened in front of Portillo's on the city's east side, News 3 Now filed an open records request to obtain the documents disclosing why MPD did not follow through with criminal charges.
Many Republican and a few Democrat lawmakers in Wisconsin's legislature aren't disclosing whether they've had or plan to get the Covid-19 vaccine, in response to questions emailed to 130 Assembly and Senate lawmakers over the past week.
