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Daniel Ulrich, a long-time officer for the La Crosse Police Department, resigned as he was being investigated for a report he wrote that differed from another officer’s body-worn camera footage ...

A bill introduced days before the state Assembly adjourned aimed to institute a year-long “cooling off period” for ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...

Elected officials in Wisconsin must submit reports on their finances to the state. Here is the report from the court’s most right-wing justice. Justice Rebecca Bradley joined the court in 2015 when ...

An investigator for the Racine County Sheriff’s Office is the subject of a criminal inquiry after his wife petitioned for a restraining order and accused him of physically and sexually abusing her for ...

As the Wisconsin State Legislature is scheduled to close for campaign season, the Assembly passed a Republican bill targeting lawsuits that try to stifle free speech. The Senate must now… ...

Former Navy Seal Van Orden first joined the U.S. House in 2022, narrowly defeating his Democratic challenger in the western Wisconsin swing district. Van Orden sits on the committees overseeing ...

Moore was first elected to Congress in 2004 after serving many years in the Wisconsin State Assembly and Senate. She sits on the influential Ways and Means Committee, which oversees tax-writing, ...

“John McCain won the 5th Congressional District in 2008 with 57.7% of the vote; it was the only congressional district in Wisconsin that year to have voted for McCain. It was a safe Republican ...

Elected officials in Wisconsin must submit reports on their finances to the state. Here is the report from one of the court’s left-wing justices. Rebecca Dallet was elected to the court in 2018. The ...

A bipartisan supermajority in the state Legislature agrees: nuclear power should help Wisconsin keep the lights on. “I’m hopeful that we will be the leader in the country for nuclear power,” state Rep ...