Wisconsin Elections Commission officials voted to provide more details to voters than normal to avoid confusion about a ballot that will have both a special and regular election for the state's vacant 8th Congressional District seat that will be held in November 2024.
May 16, 2024
Brian Schimming on Wisconsin voters and Republicans in 2024
Republican Party of Wisconsin Chair Brian Schimming discusses the state's importance in the 2024 election and turning out voters for former President Donald Trump as the RNC in Milwaukee approaches.
May 16, 2024
A surge in book challenges has Wisconsin school districts scrambling to keep pace
An attempt to ban over 400 books in Elkhorn schools left administrators pondering different approaches to assessing titles listed in challenges, while school librarians point to current book review and recommendation systems as effective.
May 15, 2024
Wisconsin Senate Republicans vote to override nine Evers vetoes on PFAS funds, other bills
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted to override nine vetoes of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in a mostly symbolic action that Republican candidates may use on the 2024 campaign trail.
May 14, 2024
Utilities start work on transmission line crossing in Mississippi River wildlife refuge
ITC Midwest and Dairyland Power Cooperative have started construction on the final mile of the contentious Cardinal-Hickory Creek transmission line where it crosses the Upper Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge near Cassville.
May 14, 2024 • Southwest Region
Rural Wisconsin voters face hurdles aside from the ballot drop box ban
As the Wisconsin Supreme Court considers whether to again allow absentee voters to cast their ballots in drop boxes, local clerks explain how the 2022 ban has made election administration more complicated.
May 14, 2024
Wisconsin Supreme Court hears challenge to state’s 2022 ballot drop box ban
Liberal justices who control the Wisconsin Supreme Court show signs in oral arguments of being willing to overturn the high court's July 2022 ruling that said state law doesn't allow for absentee ballot drop boxes to be placed anywhere other than in election clerk offices, halting their use in the state.
May 13, 2024
Wildfire smoke from Canada blankets upper Midwest for a second straight year
Smoke from fires burning in British Columbia and Alberta had settled over parts of Montana, the Dakotas, Minnesota and Wisconsin, with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issuing health advisories for multiple counties across the northern two-thirds of the state.
May 13, 2024
‘Here & Now’ Highlights: Douglas McLeod, William Gardner, Jane Graham Jennings, Dr. Julie Owen
Here's what guests on the May 10, 2024 episode said about campus protests over Gaza, decriminalizing cannabis on Ho-Chunk Nation lands, falling federal funding for crime victim services, and the disputed diagnosis of "excited delirium."
May 13, 2024
Cyberattack forces Ascension health system to divert ambulances and take records offline
A cyberattack on the Ascension health system, which operates in 19 states across the U.S. including Wisconsin, forced some of its 140 hospitals to divert ambulances, caused patients to postpone tests and blocked online access to medical records.
May 13, 2024
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