In what projects to be a good year for Democrats, their leading gubernatorial candidate is scaring some in the party who fear ...

The March donation was the biggest the young super PAC has ever received. Many ultrawealthy people have been granted access ...

The Johnson Creek Police Department stopped employing Peter Chin in June, about a month after his drunk driving arrest. The ...

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Former Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Mertzig was investigated in 2022 amid accusations from his landlords that he ...

The delivery app company DoorDash reported spending nearly $2 million in the first half of 2025 lobbying the Wisconsin State Legislature, according to mandatory filings with the state, to pass a bill ...

Wandering officers — police and jailers who were fired or forced out from a previous job in law enforcement — have increased in Wisconsin by more than 50% since 2021, an investigation by The Badger ...

Following the slide across the country, the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin continues to decline to record lows. The number of officers in Wisconsin fell again to less than ...

St. Norbert College political science professor Father Robert Cornell hobnobbed with famous musicians, then befriended – and frustrated – powerful politicians from both sides of the aisle in ...

The ex-wife of a Silicon Valley super-investor. The billionaire founders of ULINE. Tim Michels and his brothers. Mike Bloomberg. The governor of Illinois. Stephen Spielberg. In what has become a ...