The Racine County district attorney said Sarah Polka was deceptive during an investigation into her son. Polka says the ...

Oak Creek Police officers arrested Christopher Romero Sanchez in 2021 when he was a recruit officer in the city of Milwaukee. The DA declined to charge him, and his law enforcement career has ...

More than a year before the GOP primary, a rural Wisconsin sheriff’s race is heating up, with the former and current DAs ...

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The (reported) financial interests of Rebecca Bradley, right-wing justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court Elected officials in Wisconsin must submit reports on their finances to the state. Here is the ...

First elected to Congress in 2020 after many years as Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader, Fitgerald sits on the following committees: Financial Services, with subcommittee assignments to Financial ...

Nonpartisan, nonprofit, investigative journalism in WisconsinAn appeals court ruled that a challenge to a Rock County supervisor’s 3-vote victory was frivolous and ordered repayment of her legal fees.

After decades of delivering babies in the small Wisconsin town of Waupaca, Thedacare-Froedtert Health shuttered the OB-GYN unit last month. What’s best for healthcare systems is not always best for ...

The total number of law enforcement officers in the state has steadily decreased since the Wisconsin Department of Justice started tracking it in 2008. Efforts to reverse that trend may be working, ...

Wandering officers, problem police who get fired or forced out from one department, then go work at another, are a problem across the country. To help prevent these officers from bouncing between ...

When a journalism nonprofit asked the Wisconsin Department of Justice in 2020 for the names and work histories of all law enforcement officers in the state, the agency initially appeared ready to ...

A bill that U.S. House Republicans say would prevent noncitizens from voting, something that is already illegal and experts and research say almost never happens, passed with 216 GOP votes and four ...