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MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Donald Trump's administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A federal judge has sentenced a former Wisconsin man to 20 months in prison for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars into domestic political campaigns after moving to another country and renouncing his U.S. citizenship.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin mayor who carted away a drop box intended for absentee ballots before any votes were cast in the 2024 election won't face any charges, a special prosecutor announced Wednesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin legislator has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in connection with a bitter feud with her caucus over being excluded from resolutions honoring Hispanics and breaking with her party on state budget and legislative district boundary votes.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin legislator has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in connection with a bitter feud with her caucus over resolutions honoring Hispanics.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to set fire to a Republican congressman's office last year because he was angry that the lawmaker backed a bill requiring TikTok's Chinese owner to sell off its U.S. operations was sentenced Thursday to seven years in prison.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A judge on Friday sentenced to 16 1/2 years in prison a Wisconsin man who forged threats against President Donald Trump as part of a scheme to get the victim in a robbery case against him deported.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping a Mexican immigrant evade arrest testified Tuesday that she was shocked by her fellow judge's behavior.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- A colleague of the Milwaukee judge accused of helping an immigrant evade arrest testified Tuesday that she was shocked by her fellow judge's behavior.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- Prosecutors worked Tuesday to paint a Milwaukee judge accused of helping an immigrant evade arrest as rudely approaching federal officers and making it more dangerous for them to do their jobs.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Plea negotiations with a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents are underway as her trial nears, the newly minted federal prosecutor overseeing the case said Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Plea negotiations with a Wisconsin judge accused of helping an immigrant evade federal agents are underway as her trial nears, the newly minted federal prosecutor overseeing the case said Tuesday.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on Wednesday approved energy company Enbridge's plans to encase a segment of an aging oil pipeline that runs beneath a Great Lakes channel, pushing past its own findings that construction could ruin the environmentally sensitive area.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul announced Tuesday that he will not run for governor, opting instead to seek a third term as the state's top law enforcement official.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The former clerk who somehow failed to count nearly 200 ballots in Wisconsin's capital city didn't break any laws but did violate multiple policies and her contractual duty to supervise elections and maintain professional standards, the results of a city-led investigation released Tuesday show.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The U.S. Army has suspended a Wisconsin training base's first female commander after discovering portraits of President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had been flipped around to face a wall.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin Elections Commission discussion of uncounted ballots in Madison devolved into a shouting match Thursday, with the Democratic chair threatening to kick a Republican commissioner out of the meeting.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin Elections Commission discussion of uncounted ballots in Madison devolved into a shouting match Thursday, with the Democratic chair threatening to kick a Republican commissioner out of the meeting.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided to fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, stoking environmentalists' fears that the project will escape scrutiny, damage the sensitive region and perpetuate fossil fuel use.
A former Wisconsin state Supreme Court justice who spread election conspiracies and led an investigation into President Donald Trump's 2020 loss in the swing state agreed Monday to surrender his law license to settle multiple misconduct violations.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Tesla CEO Elon Musk and political groups he backs are pouring millions of dollars into the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court as the electric vehicle company sues to overturn a state law that prevents it from opening dealerships -- a case that eventually could make its way to the high court.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The mayor of Wisconsin's capital city said Wednesday she has placed the municipal clerk on leave as investigators work to determine how she failed to count almost 200 absentee ballots in the November election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul waded into the state's Supreme Court race Monday, renewing an old feud with conservative candidate Brad Schimel over delays in testing sexual assault evidence kits almost a decade ago.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin election officials voted Friday to force Madison city workers to sit for depositions as they try to learn more about how nearly 200 absentee ballots in November's election went uncounted.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Prosecutors charged a Wisconsin man who allegedly told police he tried to burn down a congressman's office because he was upset with the federal TikTok ban with multiple counts on Wednesday, including arson.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is reviving his plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement, this time through the state budget.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Nearly 200 absentee ballots somehow went uncounted in Wisconsin's liberal capital after the Nov. 5 election, prompting state election officials to launch an investigation Thursday into whether the city clerk broke the law.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's election commission leader quietly certified Donald Trump 's victory on Friday, moving past the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results in the battleground state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's election commission leader quietly certified Donald Trump 's victory on Friday, moving past the chaos that surrounded the 2020 election results in the battleground state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democrats came out of Tuesday's elections with substantial gains in the Wisconsin Legislature under new district boundaries, setting them up for a run for a majority in two years.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections still in complete control of the Wisconsin Legislature, overcoming new district boundaries that Democrats had hoped would give them a chance at finally making major inroads in both chambers.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections with their majority in the state Senate intact and poised to maintain their edge in the Assembly despite new district boundaries that Democrats had hoped would give them a chance at finally making major inroads in both chambers.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters approved a constitutional amendment in Tuesday's elections that bars foreign nationals from voting in the state. They were also set to decide whether Republicans will retain control the Legislature but the balance of power was still unclear late in the evening.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters will get a chance in Tuesday's elections to shift the balance of power in the Legislature and decide whether to explicitly forbid foreign nationals from ever voting in the state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A suspected drunken driver heading the wrong way passed within feet of Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade following a campaign stop this week in Wisconsin.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Voters in swing state Wisconsin will have another choice to make after casting their ballots for president in November -- whether to explicitly bar foreign nationals from voting.
PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. (AP) -- Former President Donald Trump sought again to link Vice President Kamala Harris to illegal border crossings, speaking in a western river town where he said she could never be forgiven for "erasing our border."
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A day after Vice President Kamala Harris discussed immigration at the U.S.-Mexico border, former President Donald Trump is expected to respond by again linking her to illegal border crossings at an event in a western Wisconsin river town.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s name will remain on the ballot in the swing state of Wisconsin, a judge ruled Monday.
PLATTEVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Scott Walker loves unions, thinks women should have the right to an abortion and wants to expand health care coverage.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin elections officials dismissed a Democratic National Committee employee's demands Friday to remove the Green Party's presidential candidate from the ballot in the key swing state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A local election clerk failed to realize that Wisconsin's new legislative maps moved a rural town into a new district, leading to an administrative error that could disenfranchise scores of voters in a Republican state Assembly primary race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- New legislative maps in Wisconsin have apparently led to an administrative error that could disenfranchise scores of voters in a Republican state Assembly primary race.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin judge dismissed a lawsuit Monday that challenged absentee voting procedures, preventing administrative headaches for local election clerks and hundreds of thousands of voters in the politically volatile swing state ahead of fall elections.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Absentee ballots still count in Wisconsin even if voters' witnesses fail to give election clerks their full address, a state appeals court has ruled.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that officials can place ballot drop boxes around their communities in this fall's elections, overturning its own ruling two years ago limiting their use in the presidential swing state.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican legislators in battleground state Wisconsin on Friday appealed a ruling that allows disabled people to download absentee ballots at home in November's presidential election.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Local election officials in battleground state Wisconsin will be allowed to send absentee ballots to disabled voters electronically in November's presidential election, a judge ruled Tuesday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's Democratic attorney general pushed back Monday against a request to let people with disabilities vote electronically from home this fall.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin judge on Monday is expected to consider whether to allow people with disabilities to vote electronically from home in the swing state this fall.
MILWAUKEE (AP) -- People will be allowed to carry guns within blocks of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee next month and protesters will be given two stages, one within sight of the convention arena, under a security plan local and federal law enforcement authorities released Friday.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- For the first time in more than a decade, Democrats in key battleground state Wisconsin have a chance at wresting some legislative control from Republicans thanks to Gov. Tony Evers' new district maps.