While slave owners plied enslaved people with meals and downtime to prevent rebellions, many used this respite for escapes or ...

Gov. Tony Evers named NOAA Chief of Staff Dr. Karen Hyun as the next secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of Americans by ending ...

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump repeatedly said during the campaign that, if elected back to the White House, he ...

Wisconsin high school students marched on the Capitol to demand that adults take seriously the scourge of gun violence after ...

Next session about 45% of the Legislature will be Democrats, but they will only make up one-quarter of the finance committee ...

The legislation would suspend the nation’s debt limit for two years through January 2027 set a September deadline for the ...

A Kansas City, Missouri, man who pleaded guilty to entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and expects a pardon from ...

The Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Land will provide $70 million next year to school libraries through the Common ...

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes was named chief of the Seattle Police Department, just days after the Abundant Life school ...

Assembly leaders have announced their appointments to the influential Joint Finance Committee for next session. The 16-member ...

The DNR has announced that it is investigating the Enbridge Line 6 oil leak, which released at least 69,000 of crude oil.