Wisconsin’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% in May, down from 3.5% in April. The state also saw 5,800 more people employed year over year while the labor force participation rate remained at 64.4% in what Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Office of Economic Advisors Section ...

Canadian energy firm Enbridge said hundreds of workers are on site in northern Wisconsin even as legal challenges remain ongoing in its plan to reroute the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline. Crews are clearing trees from the project’s right-of-way and laying down large wooden mats for temporary ...

An amendment added to a bipartisan wildfire bill in the U.S. Senate would end protections for millions of acres of roadless areas on national forest land, including in Wisconsin. On Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 11-9 along party lines to include a ...

A Wisconsin beagle breeding and research facility that’s been the site of recent violent protests is closing, and its remaining dogs are being taken in by a Florida rescue group. Big Dog Ranch Rescue announced Monday that it has reached an agreement for the permanent closure of Ridglan Farms ...

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A Republican running for Wisconsin’s deep red 7th Congressional District has lost her attempt to keep two GOP challengers, including one endorsed by President Donald Trump, off the primary ballot in August. Jessi Ebben claimed a new state law and an old form invalidated thousands of ...