All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 13 2025 // Residents jumped from the windows of a four-story apartment building in Milwaukee during a Mother’s Day fire that killed four people, critically injured four others and grew so intense that the blaze outmatched the...
May 13 2025 // Republicans who control the Wisconsin Legislature voted to kill most of the top spending priorities of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, including legalizing marijuana, even as both sides negotiate a tax cut.The...
May 5 2025 // The mother of an inmate who died of dehydration and malnutrition at Wisconsin’s oldest maximum security prison last year has filed a federal lawsuit, marking the fourth action brought by relatives of inmates who have...
Apr 10 2025 // The U.S. Department of Labor has cited Wisconsin roofing contractor Bacilio Rios Almanza for failing to protect employees atop a residential roof from fatal fall hazards in Appleton in September 2024. After its...
Apr 7 2025 // Meta Platforms Inc. plans to spend nearly $1 billion on the development of a data center project in central Wisconsin, underscoring a larger effort from the social media giant to ramp up investments in AI and cloud...
Mar 25 2025 // AM Best has downgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A- (Excellent) from A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Ratings to “a-” (Excellent) from “a” (Excellent) of Cities and Villages...
Mar 11 2025 // Four Wisconsin voters whose ballots were not counted in the November presidential election initiated a class-action lawsuit Thursday seeking $175,000 in damages each.The voters were among 193 in Madison whose ballots were...
Feb 7 2025 // A Wisconsin couple is suing Walgreens and a pharmacy benefits management company, alleging that their son died because he couldn’t afford a sudden $500 spike in his asthma medication.Shanon and William Schmidtknecht,...
Jan 17 2025 // Rural Mutual Insurance Company and Badger Mutual Insurance Company, with a combined 227 years of providing farm, commercial, and personal policies, have finalized their affiliation agreement based on regulatory approval...
Dec 16 2024 // OAKLAND, Wis. (AP) — Roughly 70,000 gallons (264,978 litres) of oil from a pipeline spilled into the ground in Wisconsin, officials said.The problem was discovered Nov. 11 in Jefferson County, 60 miles (96.5 kilometers)...
Dec 10 2024 // J. Scott Penny, chief acquisitions officer of Brown & Brown, Inc. (NYSE:BRO), and David Dybdahl and Cynthia Statz, owners of American Risk Management Resources Network, LLC (“ARMR”), announced that a Bridge...
Nov 27 2024 // A Wisconsin man has been charged with defrauding the Federal Crop Insurance Program, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin announced.Lance G. Meier, 52, Ogema, is charged with defrauding...
Nov 15 2024 // A Wisconsin pizza restaurant has agreed to pay $99,000 in fines after a Department of Labor investigation found the business assigned teenage employees to dangerous duties.Investigators found Pizza Parlor and owner...
Nov 4 2024 // Five people died in a fiery vehicle crash in Wisconsin, authorities said Saturday. The Dane County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the vehicle crashed into a tree Friday night off a roadway just south of...
Oct 30 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde has repeatedly defended his self-professed lack of knowledge about the U.S. farm bill in the campaign’s closing days, after first saying in a...
Oct 16 2024 // MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials are requiring people in 13 counties to obtain burning permits as dry conditions continue. The state Department of Natural Resources announced Monday that permit requirements will...
Oct 11 2024 // A follow-up inspection by federal workplace safety investigators in April 2024 found a Janesville, Wisconsin recycling company continuing to expose employees to unsafe levels of lead and cadmium while they dismantled...
Sep 19 2024 // A suburban Madison, Wisconsin contractor with a history of federal safety failures – including violations that led to an employee’s fatal injuries in 2022 – has again been found exposing workers to the...
Sep 18 2024 // A Wisconsin animal food producer exposed employees to the risks of explosions, fires and long-term respiratory illnesses from excessive amounts of airborne dust, federal workplace inspectors found.The findings follow an...
Sep 9 2024 // Wisconsin health officials initiated a recall of eggs following an outbreak of salmonella infections among 65 people in nine states that originated on a Wisconsin farm.The Wisconsin Department of Health Services said in a...