WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) — Michael Alfonso, the 26-year-old son-in-law of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, has an answer for people who say he doesn’t have the experience necessary to join Congress as its youngest member. He points to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. “They ...

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) Look down as you walk through the city of Marquette and you may see an unusual entreaty: DO NOT SPIT ON THE SIDEWALK. Dig into the city code ...

Greg Sass steers a boat out towards four bright orange, round buoys floating off the shore of Escanaba Lake. Two graduate students on the boat hold onto wrapped PVC piping that gets hooked up to the buoys. Back on shore, those pipes are connected to a water heater you might find at an ...

Wisconsin has 100,000 fewer manufacturing jobs than it had in 2001 while health care and social assistance has become the state's largest professions, according to a new report from Forward Analytics. Manufacturing was the state’s largest industry in 2001 and now, along with 46 other states, ...

LANSING — Michigan’s fiscal year 2027 budget that was passed Friday morning includes new investments in student literacy and continued funding for other priorities, according to Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. State Rep. Greg Markkanen, R-Hancock, in a news release Friday said the budget locks in ...