Associated Press
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Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin have filed a lawsuit attempting to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees known as Act 10.
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Lockdowns at two of Wisconsin’s oldest and most understaffed prisons are being eased. The effort comes after inmates filed a federal lawsuit alleging that current conditions at the Waupun prison amount to cruel and unusual punishment.
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Ban on floor amendments during Senate action leaves one lawmaker feeling cheated.
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The Chicago Cubs have hired manager Craig Counsell away from Milwaukee in a surprising move, replacing David Ross after the team slipped out of a playoff spot in the last part of the season.
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Wisconsin judge rules that GOP-controlled Senate's vote to fire top elections official had no effectA Wisconsin judge says the state Senate's vote to fire a top elections official last month had no effect. Dane County Judge Ann Peacock ruled Friday that Meagan Wolfe, the nonpartisan administrator of the Wisconsin Elections Commission, will remain in office while a lawsuit plays out.
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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has found $170 million in federal aid to keep a pandemic-era child care subsidy program afloat for another year and a half. Evers' administration announced Monday that it will use pandemic response dollars from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to keep the Child Care Counts program going through June 2025.
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Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature are withholding pay raises for Universities of Wisconsin employees amid a fight over the school system's diversity, equity and inclusion spending.
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Police say a man brought a handgun into the Wisconsin Capitol and demanded to see Gov. Tony Evers and returned at night with an assault rifle.
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Planned Parenthood says that it will resume offering abortions in Wisconsin next week after a judge ruled that an 1849 law that seemingly banned the procedure actually didn’t apply to abortions.
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Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers has shot down as “bogus” a surprise plan Republicans floated that would have the Legislature approve new maps drawn by nonpartisan staff.