A recent Wisconsin appeals court ruling regarding closed sessions has positive implications for government openness.

Wisconsin’s Joint Finance Committee rejected calls to add more permanent staff and approved transferring $5 million in licensing fees to the general fund.

Jim Davel, administrator for Shawano County, Wisconsin, said the inclusion of his community must have been a clerical error. Davel voted for Trump as did 67% of Shawano County.

Waiver use has increased because the number of required vaccines and the legal protections given to vaccine manufacturers have “fueled skepticism about vaccine safety and testing rigor,” Wisconsin ...

County’s youth justice dashboard offers real-time data, but it does not currently provide some key racial demographics.

Clerks say GOP-backed legislation calling for a 20-hour minimum wouldn’t make sense in towns with only a few dozen voters.

A claim by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem that an immigrant threatened the life of President Donald Trump has begun to unravel.

At Wisconsin Watch, our driving purpose is to provide a small brigade of nonpartisan, fact-focused journalists to research topics on behalf of our readers. One way you can take full advantage of ...

The sawmill at Northcentral Technical College’s Antigo campus will be a teaching tool for northern Wisconsin students.

Yes. Real median wages, or the inflation-adjusted amount of money the middle earner makes, have risen in the U.S. since the 1980s.

The 1956 paper “The Carbon Dioxide Theory of Climatic Change” outlined CO2’s role in altering climate. Google Books indicates usage of “climate change” predated and surpassed “global warming” since ...

Yes. In 2024, 31% of Wisconsin fourth graders were proficient or better in reading, compared with 32% in Mississippi.