Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez becomes the first Democrat to enter the 2026 governor race

A new college sports agency has rejected certain NIL deals involving donor-backed collectives.

Olympic wrestler and former UFC fighter Ben Askren has undergone a double lung transplant after battling severe pneumonia.

An investigation by Wisconsin's elections commission has concluded that unlawful actions by Madison's former city clerk led to nearly 200 absentee ballots going uncounted in the 2024 presidential election.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down the state’s 176-year-old abortion ban.

A budget deal brokered by Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the state Legislature has cleared a key hurdle just hours after it was made public.

The liberal-controlled Wisconsin Supreme Court has refused to hear challenges brought by Democrats seeking to throw out the battleground state’s current congressional district boundaries before the 2026 midterms.

The University of Wisconsin and its NIL collective have sued the University of Miami, saying it knowingly induced one of the Badgers’ football players to abandon a lucrative name, image and likeness contract to play for the Florida school this fall.

The Supreme Court is ordering a New York court to take a new look at whether some religious organizations should be excluded from a state regulation requiring health insurance plans to cover abortions.

A Wisconsin dairy farmer has alleged in a federal lawsuit that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities.

The Trump administration's Justice Department has begun targeting Democratic and presidential swing states with demands for election data or changes to voter registration procedures.

A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.

The Supreme Court has handed down a unanimous ruling in a religious rights case, finding a Catholic charity in Wisconsin can’t be required to pay unemployment taxes when other religious groups are exempt.

A man falsely accused of threatening President Donald Trump’s life faces deportation even as Wisconsin authorities say the Mexican immigrant was framed and is a victim of a violent 2023 attack.

Angel Yin started experimenting with a new putter about a month ago and decided to use it in a tournament for the first time at the most prestigious event in women’s golf.

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man illegally evade immigration agents is seeking donations to fund her defense.

A Wisconsin judge accused of helping a man evade federal immigration agents has pleaded not guilty to federal charges.

A fifth person has died following an intense fire that engulfed a four-story Milwaukee apartment building on Mother’s Day.

Authorities say four people are dead and four others were critically injured after a Mother’s Day at an Milwaukee apartment building fire.

A Wisconsin prosecutor has cleared police officers from Ohio of criminal liability in a fatal shooting near the Republican National Convention last summer.

The NFL draft kicks off Thursday night and Miami quarterback Cam Ward is still the overwhelming favorite to be selected with the No. 1 overall pick by the Tennessee Titans.

Saints right tackle Ryan Ramczyk has announced his retirement from pro football.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that the Democratic governor legally used the state’s uniquely powerful veto to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years.

A Wisconsin teenager charged in the deaths of his parents faces wider allegations that he killed them to “obtain the financial means” to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government.

The Wisconsin Democratic leader who revitalized the party in the swing state will be leaving his position in June after a six-year run that included a string of victories and “agonizingly close” losses.

The recent election that determined control of the Wisconsin Supreme Court saw millions of dollars flooding in from billionaires, featured attack ads and drew national political attention.

Spending by billionaires including Elon Musk and George Soros has helped push total spending on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race won by the Democratic-backed candidate over $100 million.

President Donald Trump that Elon Musk would likely leave his administration in “a few months."

Susan Crawford’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election victory over a conservative candidate backed by President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk cements a liberal majority on the state’s top court for at least three more years.

The Democrats' victory in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race is a big loss for Elon Musk.

A handful of elections in Florida and Wisconsin have become key tests of President Donald Trump’s political standing just over two months into his second term in the White House.

The Supreme Court appears to be leaning toward a Catholic charitable organization pushing back against the state of Wisconsin in the latest religious rights case to come before the court.

Thousands of people have no power in Wisconsin, Michigan and Indiana after freezing rain or severe storms brought down trees and power lines.

A Wisconsin judge has declined to stop billionaire Elon Musk from handing over $1 million checks to two voters in the state at a planned rally days before the closely contested Supreme Court election.

Wisconsin’s spring election Tuesday for state Supreme Court, state schools chief and a proposed constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for voting will be the first major indication of the state’s political climate since Donald Trump recaptured the White House.

BYU withstood a ferocious charge from Wisconsin’s John Tonje to hold off the Badgers for a 91-89 victory that sends the program to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 2011.

Abortion has been top of mind for many voters casting early ballots in the race for a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

President Donald Trump is calling on his supporters to vote for a candidate for the Wisconsin Supreme Court who already had the full-throated backing of Trump’s billionaire adviser Elon Musk.

A group funded by billionaire Elon Musk is offering Wisconsin voters $100 to sign a petition in opposition to “activist judges.”.

Wisconsin grinded its way back into the March Madness win column, getting double-digit scoring from five players on the way to an 85-66 victory over Montana.

The Republican-backed candidate in Wisconsin’s closely watched state Supreme Court race has resurfaced long debunked concerns about voting fraud because of the late reporting of ballots in Milwaukee.

A sheriff’s office in Wisconsin came to the rescue of three deer over the weekend who were trapped in 40 feet of frigid water that was surrounded by ice.

John Tonje scored 32 points and grabbed seven rebounds to help No. 18 Wisconsin beat No. 7 Michigan State 77-74 in the semifinals of the Big Ten Tournament.

A new audit of the November election won by President Donald Trump in swing-state Wisconsin has found that not a single vote was counted incorrectly, altered or missed by tabulating machines.

Nate Bittle had 23 points and Jackson Shelstad made a desperation 3 to force overtime as Oregon beat No. 11 Wisconsin 77-73.

Illinois wasn’t showing any hard feelings toward its opponent when it declined to participate in a postgame handshake.

Wisconsin Superintendent of Public Instruction Jill Underly seeks a second four-year term in Tuesday’s spring primary.

A new television attack ad in Wisconsin’s hotly contested Supreme Court race features a doctored image of the liberal candidate, a move that her campaign claims could be a violation of a recently enacted state law.

Wisconsin cornerback Nyzier Fourqurean has filed an injunction saying the two seasons he played at Division II program Grand Valley State shouldn’t count against his college eligibility.

Republicans put Pennsylvania and Wisconsin back in the win column in the 2024 presidential race.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ plan to let voters repeal and create state laws without legislative involvement met opposition from the Republican leaders of the Legislature, who signaled that the idea is likely to be rejected for a second time.

A powerful winter storm is disrupting holiday travel across large swaths of the United States this Christmas Eve, blanketing states from Massachusetts to Wisconsin, Michigan, and New York in snow.

Police say the shooter who killed a student and teacher at a religious school in Wisconsin this week brought two guns to the school.

A student opened fire at a private Christian school Monday morning in Wisconsin, killing a teacher and another student in the final week before Christmas break.

Tennessee remained No. 1 for the second consecutive week, though Auburn has closed the gap at No. 2.

The Supreme Court has agreed to take up a new religious rights case over whether a Catholic charitable organization must pay Wisconsin’s employment tax.

The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own drowning so he could abscond to Europe has filed a court action to end the couple's marriage.

Tennessee is the new No. 1 in men's college basketball after a massive shakeup in the AP Top 25.

Michigan has a nickname for its pair of 7-foot newcomers: Area 50-1.

Vladislav Goldin scored a career-high 24 points – including three straight baskets inside down the stretch – and Michigan defeated No. 11 Wisconsin 67-64 in the Big Ten opener for both teams.

Wisconsin public worker and teachers unions have scored a major legal victory with a ruling that restores collective bargaining rights they lost under a 2011 state law.

Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party in Wisconsin, says he's joined the race to lead the national party after an election that swept Donald Trump and Republicans to power in Washington.

Kansas strengthened its grip on No. 1 in the AP Top 25.

Oregon remains the unanimous No. 1 team in The Associated Press Top 25 college football poll after its close call at Wisconsin.

Atticus Sappington broke a tie with a 24-yard field goal with 2:36 remaining and No. 1 Oregon rallied in the fourth quarter to beat Wisconsin 16-13 on Saturday night.

Local officials are beginning to certify the results of this year’s presidential election in a process that so far has been playing out quietly, in stark contrast to the tumultuous certification period four years ago that followed then-President Donald Trump’s loss.

Former NFL head coach Jack Del Rio has stepped down from his role on Wisconsin’s coaching staff after he was arrested near campus for operating a vehicle while intoxicated last week.

An attorney representing a conservate prosecutor is struggling to convince Wisconsin's liberal-leaning Supreme Court to reactivate the state's 175-year-old abortion ban.

Authorities say a 13-year-old boy who had researched school shootings online was arrested hours after he tried to enter a Wisconsin elementary school while armed.

Republicans landed historic victories in Pennsylvania, winning the battleground state’s valuable presidential electoral votes, posting a two-seat gain in its U.S. House delegation and sweeping all four statewide offices on the ballot, including a U.S. Senate seat.

NASCAR Truck Series championship contender Ty Majeski was fined $12,500 for missing his media session to go vote in his home state of Wisconsin on Election Day.

The Associated Press declared that Republican Donald Trump won Wisconsin — and with it, a return to the White House — once it determined that the remaining uncounted votes mostly from the greater Milwaukee area would not be enough to allow Vice President Kamala Harris to overtake Trump for the lead.

The results on Election Day will come down to Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump have hosted dueling rallies within miles of each other in a fevered final push for votes in swing state Wisconsin’s largest city.

Former President Donald Trump climbed into a white garbage truck that carried his name as he tried to draw attention to a comment made by President Joe Biden a day earlier.

Donald Trump has campaigned with NFL legend Brett Favre at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency appeal to remove Robert F.

Penn State coach James Franklin isn’t sure if starting quarterback Drew Allar will be ready to play when the No. 3 Nittany Lions host No. 4 Ohio State.

A sheriff's official says a suspected drunken driver heading the wrong way passed within feet of Vice President Kamala Harris' motorcade following a campaign stop this week in Wisconsin.

More than 97,000 people cast absentee ballots in person in Wisconsin on the first day they could.

Voters lined up across battleground Wisconsin to cast their ballots Tuesday on the first day of early in-person voting, as former President Barack Obama and Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz urged supporters in the liberal capital city to do the same.

Kamala Harris headed to the suburbs in three battleground states on Monday to court Republican voters uneasy about Donald Trump.

Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin and Republican challenger Eric Hovde have repeatedly accused each other of lying during an often testy and confrontational debate.

Vice President Kamala Harris is getting ready for her first campaign appearances with Barack and Michelle Obama this month in Georgia and Michigan.

The Democratic governors of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin this week have embarked on a bus tour through their states to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid.

U.S. health officials say whooping cough is at its highest level in a decade for this time of year.

Kamala Harris is spending her week trying to shore up support in the “blue wall” states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.

Voting rights advocates on Tuesday asked the state and federal departments of justice to investigate anonymous text messages apparently targeting young Wisconsin voters, warning them not to vote in a state where they are ineligible.

To voters in many other democracies, the process of electing a president in the U.S. is a head-scratcher.

The nation's unique Electoral College system for electing a president, which replaces the popular vote, puts disproportionate voting power in the hands of a relative few states.

Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court said Wednesday that Gov_ Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years appeared to be “extreme" and “crazy.”.

President Joe Biden has made a rare jump into the 2024 battleground political fray since ending his reelection bid.

A Wisconsin shipwreck missing for 130 years was recently found by a lucky pair of historians.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Robert F.

The owners of a pumpkin patch in Wisconsin have reached a whole new level of football fever.

This year's presidential election will be the first overseen by a new elections chief in Milwaukee, a city that is under intense scrutiny in every major election.

Jalen Milroe threw three touchdowns and ran for two more as No. 4 Alabama made a rare trip north and posted a 42-10 win over Wisconsin Saturday.

Wisconsin quarterback Tyler Van Dyke was carted into the locker room after being injured on the opening drive against No. 4 Alabama on Saturday.

Vice President Kamala Harris has upcoming events scheduled in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin as her campaign focuses spending on the “blue wall” states with the Nov. 5 election nearing.

Wisconsin health officials have initiated a recall of eggs following an outbreak of salmonella infections among 65 people in nine states that originated on a Wisconsin farm.