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MADISON -- UW President Ray Cross has put a moratorium on non-essential hiring, promotions, pay raises, and out-of-state travel. The action comes in response to Gov. Scott Walker's budget proposal to slash state funding for the UW by $300 million over the next two years. In a memo...

MADISON -- Wisconsin lawmakers were expected to get one step closer Tuesday to changing the way the State Supreme Court's chief justice is selected. The Senate is scheduled to hold its second and final ratification vote on a constitutional amendment to let the seven justices choose...

MADISON -- Two Democrats on the Wisconsin Senate's Judiciary Committee staged a brief walkout of a meeting Thursday. Fred Risser of Madison and Lena Taylor of Milwaukee protested the way Republicans are expediting a proposed change in the way the State Supreme Court's chief justice...

MADISON -- The state government is the first in line to collect fees from former prisoners to cover the costs of their extended supervision, and paying back crime victims is second. That's according to a legal opinion issued by former state Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen, three...

MADISON -- Back in mid-November, Gov. Scott Walker said he'd probably make a couple changes in his cabinet for his second term. That isn't happening, at least for now. Walker said Tuesday that all 17 of his agency secretaries will return. The governor said his team is "excited to...

SUPERIOR -- The school board in Superior has decided not to ban a book about a girl with gay parents. A parent complained about the book "Emma and Meesha My Boy." It's the story of a little girl who learns how to be nice to her cats with the help of her two mothers. School Board...

MADISON -- The Wisconsin state government faces a daunting list of challenges but for Monday, they'll be set aside as numerous officials get sworn into new terms and celebrate their election victories from November. Republican Gov. Scott Walker and new Attorney General Brad Schimel...

MILWAUKEE -- A suburban Milwaukee Republican is considering a plan to have somebody else take over the city's lowest-performing public schools -- either the state, or charter school operators. Senator Alberta Darling's office confirmed that it's talking to affected parties about...

MADISON -- Wisconsin's housing, health care, and banking industries expect to have good years in 2015 but farmers could see their profits go down. That's according to forecasts prepared for the state Bankers Association, which will discuss the New Year's economic prospects at a luncheon...

TOFTE, Minn. -- Two Wisconsin men died after being swept away by large waves Tuesday along the Lake Superior shore near Tofte, Minn. The Cook County Sheriff’s Office reported that authorities were notified just after 3 p.m. that a person was in Lake Superior near Bluefin Bay Resort....

A study at New York University has shown that an experimental vaccine was partly successful at preventing chronic wasting disease in deer. It's the first time that a medicine was found to prevent the deadly prion infection and it could have major implications for Wisconsin, which...

MILWAUKEE -- The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. Justice Department, and the Milwaukee U.S. Attorney's office will all investigate the Milwaukee police shooting of Dontre Hamilton. The word came after District Attorney John Chisholm ruled Monday that criminal charges were...