MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a Republican Party official lacked the standing to bring a lawsuit challenging the use of a mobile voting van in 2022. The lawsuit sought to ban the use of mobile voting vans in any future election in the ...
A grant of $2.52 million will be awarded for a road project in the town of Long Lake in Florence County under Wisconsin’s Agricultural Roads Improvement Program. The work will be done on Lost Lake Road, Chipmunk Rapids Road and Dream Lake Road, as the program aims to improve aging roads and culverts critical to moving agriculture and forestry products. Gov. Tony Evers and the Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced the funding earlier this month as part of $150 million dedicated to ARIP in the 2023-2025 biennial budget. In June 2023, Evers signed Wisconsin Act 13 to expand ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Workers across the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration 's aggressive effort to shrink the size of the federal workforce by ordering agencies to lay off probationary employees who have yet to qualify for civil ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
