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MADISON -- Wisconsin's right-to-work bill moves on to the state Assembly next week, after the Senate approved it 17-to-15 Wednesday evening. Republican Jerry Petrowski of Marathon joined all 14 Democrats in voting no.

MADISON -- The owner of a Black River Falls construction firm said Tuesday that the Wisconsin right-to-work bill that's up for a Senate vote Wednesday could devastate his business. James Hoffman of Hoffman Construction said he relies on the Operating Engineers' union to train employees...

MADISON -- As Wisconsinites receive their annual property tax bills, Gov. Scott Walker is traveling the state Wednesday to remind those folks what he and other Republicans did for them this year. Walker had news conferences planned in La Crosse, Eau Claire, Wausau, Milwaukee, and...

MADISON -- Veterans presented a list of grievances at the State Capitol Thursday. The list was wide-ranging but according to the Wisconsin Radio Network, the main beef appeared to be with the Eau Claire School District, which banned the use of ceremonial weapons on Veterans' Day...

MILWAUKEE -- It was in answering an audience member's question, following a formal presentation to business leaders at Milwaukee's University Club, that the Environmental Protection Agency's Midwest regional administrator said she was "perplexed by the premise embedded in (a) question"...

No bomb-shells came out Wednesday, when a federal court released 14 more pages of sealed documents in the Walker John Doe probe. The records included arguments from prosecutors about why they should be immune from the Wisconsin Club for Growth's federal lawsuit which sought to end...

Most of Wisconsin escaped the severe weather that neighboring Minnesota had last night but far western Wisconsin did get some of the spillover. Almost 2.5 inches of rain fell near Hudson while River Falls recorded 85-hundreths of an inch. Highway 29 near Menomonie had up to 3 inches...

MADISON -- The number of tips about online child sexual exploitation tripled in Wisconsin while the number of state Department of Justice investigators never expanded to keep up. The Wisconsin State Journal wrote about the trend, after DOJ supervisor Willie Brantley and agent Anna...

WAUSAU -- A proposed frac-sand mine appears to have the green light in far western Wisconsin, after a state appeals court upheld Buffalo County's approval of the project. A three-judge panel in Wausau Tuesday affirmed a circuit judge's refusal to overturn a conditional use permit...

MADISON -- Two companies have paid $80,000 to settle a Wisconsin complaint that their sand mine polluted the St. Croix River. Twin Cities-based Tiller Corp. and Interstate Energy Partners reached an agreement with the Wisconsin attorney general's office. The companies did not admit...

Winds are either light or non-existent in most of Wisconsin, but the National Weather Service still has wind-chill advisories out for virtually all of the state. Most parts of the state have wind-chill advisories until noon. The advisories end at 9 a.m. for 13 counties between...