Politics & Government

A bipartisan group of Wisconsin lawmakers on Wednesday revived a push to implement ranked-choice voting and nonpartisan blanket primaries in the battleground state

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he won't give up in trying to pass a conservative bill to prevent a government shutdown.

Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled Legislature has ignored a special session called by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers.

In Wisconsin, policy analysts say working families could fall through the cracks if certain GOP proposals go through. Prior to the recent Congressional recess, House Republicans had floated ideas such as slashing funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children

Since 1984, Oneida, Vilas, and Forest Counties have agreed to operate their human services center together.

Michigan’s attorney general is suggesting conservative politics played a role in the acquittal of three men in the final trial related to a plan to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Like Whitmer, Dana Nessel is a Democrat.

The Republican speaker of the Wisconsin Assembly is blocking pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees unless the university cuts diversity, equity and inclusion spending by $32 million.

Republicans who drew legislative electoral maps are making new arguments in calling for a key liberal Wisconsin Supreme Court justice to recuse from a case about whether to keep the maps.

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin is resuming abortion services this week.The organization stopped abortions after Roe v. Wade was overturned last year.

The former justice, Republican David Prosser, gave $500 to the conservative candidate who lost to Protasiewicz, did not recuse from cases involving a law he helped pass as a lawmaker and was investigated after a physical altercation with a liberal justice