MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The president of the University of Wisconsin system said in letters obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday that he has been told to either resign or be fired, but has been given no reason and won't step aside. Jay Rothman, president of the multicampus ...
IRON MOUNTAIN — The Wild Rivers Invasive Species Coalition will become a non-profit with a new name later this year using a $70,000 state grant to help make the transition. The group will share in a total of $2.4 million that the Michigan Invasive Species Grant Program recently awarded to ...
The spring election Tuesday will decide a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Maria Lazar and Chris Taylor are running for a 10-year term. Both are currently judges on the Wisconsin Court of Appeals. The election is nonpartisan, but Lazar is generally seen as a conservative and Taylor as a liberal. Lazar is a former Waukesha County Circuit Court judge. She was a Wisconsin assistant attorney general from 2010 to 2015 and before that was an attorney in private practice from 1989 to 2010. Taylor was a Dane County Circuit Court judge from 2020 to 2023, and a representative in the ...
Forest County's district attorney and a longtime Crandon attorney with past experience as both a DA and judge will square off Tuesday in a circuit court judgeship race in Florence and Forest counties. Voters in the two counties will choose a successor to Judge Leon Stenz, who is retiring after serving since 2008. The candidates for the judgeship are Robert A. Kennedy Jr., who ran unsuccessfully against Stenz in 2014, and Alex Seifert. Kennedy is a past Florence County district attorney for one term and a past Florence-Forest circuit court judge for one term. He began his 46-year ...
Marinette County seeks to increase its annual property tax revenues by $1.5 million in a referendum on the ballot for Tuesday, April 7. If approved, the levy would result in an estimated property tax increase of $20 per $100,000 of equalized assessed property value, according to the Marinette County Board. The current tax limits set by state law have put essential public safety services at risk, the board states in a Nov. 6 resolution calling for the referendum. The 2026 levy is capped at $17.65 million, which is an increase of 1.494%. The referendum seeks to raise the 2027 levy by ...
Candidates for a number of local offices in northern Marinette County face no opposition on the ballot in Wisconsin’s spring election, set for Tuesday, April 7. In the city of Niagara, incumbents Glenn Lantagne, Dan Decker and Lisa A. Johnson are unopposed Tuesday for three seats on the seven-member city council. The terms of the other four Niagara City Council incumbents — Joseph Johnston, Michael Darne, Karl Lamoreaux and Donald Shampo — are up for election in April 2027. Area residents also can vote on election day for the new Miss Niagara. The 2026 candidates are: Saylor ...
