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Commission won’t tell Wisconsin elections official to attend hearing

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Elections Commission declined to vote Wednesday on whether the state’s top elections official should appear before a state Senate hearing on her reappointment as a fight continues over who will lead elections in the critical battleground state ahead of the ...

Biden focuses on factory jobs in Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE (AP) — On the heels of a fourth indictment for Donald Trump, President Joe Biden focused on manufacturing jobs in a speech at a Wisconsin factory — putting his ideas for growth up against his Republican rivals in a bid to win over voters in a key state in next year’s ...

Judge tosses suit seeking to remove tribe’s roadblocks

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit seeking to block a northern Wisconsin tribe from barricading roads on its reservation, saying the nontribal land owners who brought the action didn’t have a case under federal law. The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake ...

Wisconsin prison battling mice infestation, advocacy group says

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin prison is battling an ongoing mice infestation, a prisoner advocacy group said. Dant'e Cottingham, interim associate director of Ex-Incarcerated People Organizing, says prisoners at the Green Bay Correctional Institution are placing rolled-up towels ...

Maui fire not the deadliest — Peshtigo still tops US list

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wildfires on the Hawaiian island of Maui killed at least 96 people, making it the deadliest U.S. wildfire in more than a century. Emergency management officials say the death toll is expected to rise as cadaver dogs and searchers make their way through the ashes of ...

Wisconsin getting new area code

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new telephone area code for southern Wisconsin is set to go into effect next month. The 353 area code will overlay the 608 area code region beginning Sept. 15, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. Customers requesting new or additional lines in the region will get ...