Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett

Tom Barrett is set to resign as mayor of Milwaukee Wednesday at 5 p.m., after 17 years on the job.

On Wednesday, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved President Joe Biden's nomination of Barrett to the European post in Luxembourg.

With about two weeks left in 2021, the city of Milwaukee has already set a new record high for the number of homicides in a year.

The retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election in the battleground state on Thursday canceled plans to interview mayors and election officials from the state's five largest cities, days after he subpoenaed them.

The retired Wisconsin Supreme Court justice leading a Republican-ordered investigation into the 2020 presidential election said Tuesday that he plans to issue subpoenas to mayors in the state's five largest and most Democratic cities.

COVID-19 vaccination rates in Milwaukee and Milwaukee County continue to trail statewide rates in Wisconsin by a few percentage points. Health officials say the metro area's lowest rates continue to be in some Black and Latino neighborhoods that score high on a federal Social Vulnerability Index.