Gov. Tony Evers’ Task Force on Healthcare Workforce released its recommendations Monday for addressing challenges with the state’s health care workforce now and in the coming years. The recommendations of the task force sought to address three issue areas: education and training; ...
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) — A Milwaukee woman who said she was legally allowed to a kill a man because he was sexually trafficking her was sentenced Monday to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to a reduced count of reckless homicide. A Kenosha County judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer to 11 ...
The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will return to restricting access to roads crossing tribal lands if a Vilas County town in northern Wisconsin does not pay overdue permit fees, according to a letter from tribal leadership. In a letter sent Aug. 13, Tribal President John Johnson Sr. notified the town of Lac du Flambeau’s chair and town board that the tribe now considered them to be in default of a May 2023 agreement allowing the use of four roads involved in a long-standing dispute. The letter said the town has until this Friday to pay outstanding fees, and that ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Universities of Wisconsin officials are asking their regents to approve a request for $855 million in new state funding to stave off another round of tuition increases, cover raises, subsidize tuition and keep two-year branch campuses open in some form. President Jay ...
EVART, Mich. (AP) — Alison Smith stared at the virtually empty dairy barn inside the Osceola County Fairgrounds, once bustling with teens and preteens preparing to show their prized animals but now eerily silent as an invisible virus once again interfered with a cherished summertime ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin elections officials dismissed a Democratic National Committee employee’s demands Friday to remove the Green Party’s presidential candidate from the ballot in the key swing state. DNC employee David Strange filed a complaint with the Wisconsin Elections Commission on Wednesday asking the commission to remove Jill Stein from the presidential ballot. The election commission’s attorney, Angela O’Brien Sharpe, wrote to Strange on Friday saying she had dismissed the complaint because it names commissioners as respondents and they can’t ethically ...
