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 ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, as ...

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

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

A detective for the Portage County Sheriff’s Office resigned in 2024, a month after his wife called 911 on him, claiming he was intoxicated, handling guns and acting aggressively toward her and their ...

In April, a woman in Green Lake County was driving three passengers on a UTV when she took a curve too quickly. The vehicle rolled and hit a tree head-on. One passenger died at the scene and a second ...

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The city of Madison sued a state legislator last year after he went more than 18 months without paying an ambulance bill. It has now been more than two and a half years and the bill is still ...

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Alcohol is a common factor in the rising number of off-road vehicle crashes and fatalities reported in Wisconsin. Legislators from both sides want to beef up state OWI laws, arguing that will make the ...