MADISON — Applicants are being sought for the Florence County district attorney position left vacant after the death of Michael Scholke on April 24. Gov. Tony Evers will appoint a new district attorney to serve the remainder of the unexpired term that ends January 2029. “Michael Scholke ...
Sixty-two years ago, Audrey Backeberg disappeared from a small city in south-central Wisconsin after reportedly hitchhiking with her family’s babysitter and catching a bus to Indianapolis. Nobody ever knew where she went or what happened to her. All that changed last week when she was ...
Attorneys general in 19 states and Washington, D.C., are challenging cuts to the U.S. Health and Human Services agency, saying the Trump administration’s massive restructuring has destroyed life-saving programs and left states to pick up the bill for mounting health crises. The lawsuit was ...
LANSING — Proposed federal budget cuts could cripple the ability of Michigan forecasters to monitor extreme weather and climate shifts, researchers warn. A draft plan from the White House would dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Office of Oceanic and ...
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has released a new, shorter timeline for its environmental review of the Line 5 tunnel project. In April, the Army Corps announced it would speed up its review of the tunnel project under a national energy emergency declared by President Donald ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Investigators concluded in a report released Wednesday that the leak of a Wisconsin Supreme Court abortion order last year was likely deliberate, but they were unable to determine who was responsible. The June leak of a draft order showed the court would take a case ...