Wisconsin Republicans are reviving a plan to let poll workers process absentee ballots on the Monday before an election, a change long sought by election officials, but blocked by a small but ...

Polls do not show that most U.S. adults think violence against leaders is acceptable. YouGov poll, conducted Sept. 10: 11% said violence can sometimes be justified to achieve political goals; the ...

Wisconsin does not have any large mountains or mountain chains because the state is in the middle of a tectonic plate and its ancient mountains have eroded.

It’s a full-circle moment for Brittany Carloni, the new state government and politics reporter at Wisconsin Watch.

A Democratic state lawmaker who is promising to be a “wild card” joined Wisconsin’s open race for governor on Wednesday, saying she will focus on a progressive agenda to benefit the working class.

Steve Davis, media relations manager at Milwaukee Public Schools, explained in an email to NNS that the school district is working to make sure not to exceed maximum class sizes at schools. “This ...

Brittany Carloni joined Wisconsin Watch as the state government and politics reporter in September 2025. She returned home to ...

This year, the federal Food and Drug Administration has approved the new COVID vaccine for Americans ages 65 and older and for people with certain higher risk conditions. At the national level, a ...

As of July, two dozen Ashland residents had cases pending in federal immigration court. Attending court dates in person would require at least a three-and-a-half-hour trek to Fort Snelling in ...

The Communist Control Act of 1954 bans the Communist Party. The federal law declares the party “an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow” the U.S. government. It remains part of the U.S. Code.

Jodi S. Cohen is a senior editor for ProPublica. Previously, Cohen worked at the Chicago Tribune for 14 years, where she ...

Kelda Roys, a Wisconsin state senator who came in third in the Democratic primary for governor in 2018, is running again.