Wisconsin’s spring primary set for Tuesday

February 15, 2025

WASHINGTON (AP) — Wisconsin's top school official faces the first big hurdle of her reelection bid in the spring primary on Tuesday, when she's running against two challengers in a far different political and electoral environment than she did in her successful 2021 campaign. State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly seeks a second four-year term in the nonpartisan role. Looking to unseat her are Jeff Wright, superintendent of the Sauk Prairie School District, and Brittany Kinser, an education consultant and founder of a state literacy initiative. The top two ...

Wisconsin’s top education official facing challengers

February 13, 2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The race to become Wisconsin’s top education official pits the Democratic-backed incumbent against a school-choice advocate aligned with Republicans and a rural school superintendent who has garnered support from public school administrators and others. The top two vote-getters in Tuesday’s primary will face off April 1. Wisconsin is the only state where voters elect the top education official but there is no state board of education. That gives the person who runs the Department of Public Instruction broad authority to oversee education policy, which ...

Musk suggests cutting federal funds for some Lutheran groups

February 10, 2025

Lutheran groups in Wisconsin are defending their records of service after coming under attack on social media by Elon Musk, the tech mogul tapped by President Donald Trump to root out waste and inefficiency in the federal government. Former national security advisor Michael Flynn a week ago ...

Wisconsin Supreme Court says elections chief can stay in post

February 8, 2025

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A unanimous Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Friday that the swing state's nonpartisan top elections official, who has been targeted for removal by Republican lawmakers over the 2020 presidential election, can remain in her post despite not being reappointed and confirmed ...

Spread Eagle Barrens program Feb. 18 at the Interpretive Center

February 6, 2025

MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources invites the public to join DNR staff from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 18, at the Wild Rivers Interpretive Center in Florence, Wis., to learn about the history, ecology and current planning and management of Spread Eagle Barrens State Natural Area. Spread Eagle Barrens is located near Florence and Iron Mountain. It was established in 1995 to protect an extensive landscape of bracken grassland or “barrens.” Bracken grassland is a regionally unique type of pine barrens only present in northeastern Wisconsin. Spread Eagle ...

Wisconsin lottery ticket nets $350K in Spread Eagle

February 5, 2025

MADISON, Wis. — A SuperCash! lottery ticket sold in Spread Eagle, Wis., matched all six numbers and is worth $350,000, the Wisconsin Lottery said Tuesday. The winning numbers of 7-10-19-31-32-36 drawn Saturday were on a ticket sold at Bigfoot Riverside Liquor at 515 U.S. 2 in Spread Eagle. It is the first $350,000 SuperCash! top prize won in 2025. The odds of winning the $350,000 SuperCash! top prize are more than 1 in 1.6 million. SuperCash! is a Wisconsin-only Lotto game, hosting daily drawings seven days a week. Wisconsin Lottery retailers who sell winning tickets over $599 ...