The Racine County district attorney said Sarah Polka was deceptive during an investigation into her son. Polka says the ...

More than a year before the GOP primary, a rural Wisconsin sheriff’s race is heating up, with the former and current DAs ...

Nonpartisan, nonprofit, investigative journalism in WisconsinAn appeals court ruled that a challenge to a Rock County supervisor’s 3-vote victory was frivolous and ordered repayment of her legal fees.

Ted Gregory senior editor Ted is a former general assignment reporter at the Chicago Tribune who, as part of a team of six reporters, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He also ...

Nonpartisan, nonprofit, investigative journalism in WisconsinWith guardrails removed by court decisions and Republican inaction, wealthy donors like the founder of LinkedIn, George Soros and the ...

More than a year before the GOP primary, a rural Wisconsin sheriff’s race is heating up, with the former and current DAs taking sides. IRS cuts cost much more than they save, further growing the ...

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After decades of delivering babies in the small Wisconsin town of Waupaca, Thedacare-Froedtert Health shuttered the OB-GYN unit last month. What’s best for healthcare systems is not always best for ...

The total number of law enforcement officers in the state has steadily decreased since the Wisconsin Department of Justice started tracking it in 2008. Efforts to reverse that trend may be working, ...

When a journalism nonprofit asked the Wisconsin Department of Justice in 2020 for the names and work histories of all law enforcement officers in the state, the agency initially appeared ready to ...

Wandering officers, problem police who get fired or forced out from one department, then go work at another, are a problem across the country. To help prevent these officers from bouncing between ...

A bill that U.S. House Republicans say would prevent noncitizens from voting, something that is already illegal and experts and research say almost never happens, passed with 216 GOP votes and four ...