All the headlines from our Wisconsin Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 16 2022 // A child and two men were missing Tuesday after they were swept away in a Milwaukee drainage ditch a day earlier following severe thunderstorms that brought heavy rain and damaging winds to a wide swath of the Midwest and...
Jun 13 2022 // A federal judge has sentenced a Racine man to 40 months in prison for starting a fire that destroyed a furniture store during protests over a police shooting in Kenosha in 2020.The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that...
Jun 10 2022 // Baumann Farms LLP, a major agricultural company in central Wisconsin, will pay $180,812.50 and provide other significant relief to settle a sexual harassment, retaliation, and national origin discrimination lawsuit filed...
Jun 8 2022 // A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Tuesday said the state health department can release data on coronavirus outbreak cases, information sought two years ago near the beginning of the pandemic.The court ruled 4-3 against...
Jun 6 2022 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration cited two more Dollar General stores for endangering the safety of their employees, continuing the company’s long history of...
Jun 3 2022 // A Waukesha, Wisconsin construction and commercial real estate renovation company will pay $140,000 and furnish other relief to settle a lawsuit for racial harassment and retaliation brought by the U.S. Equal Employment...
Jun 2 2022 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of A (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating of “a+” (Excellent) of West Bend Mutual Insurance...
Jun 2 2022 // Wisconsin lawmakers signed off Tuesday on $378,000 in settlements of nine pollution lawsuits.The settlement payments to the state approved by the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee range from $5,000 to $160,000...
May 20 2022 // A huge fire set off by an explosion burned Thursday at a marine construction company in southeast Wisconsin.Three civilians and three firefighters were injured at Summerset Marine Construction in the small Waukesha County...
May 17 2022 // A federal grand jury has indicted the operator and six management officials of a Cambria, Wisconsin corn mill – where a May 31, 2017, explosion killed five workers and injured 15 others – on nine criminal counts,...
May 10 2022 // Wisconsin officials issued wildfire warnings across the state this past weekend. The state Department of Natural Resources has listed 52 counties in the “very high risk” category for fires, mostly in the...
May 9 2022 // Dane County, Wisconsin officials are suing dozens of fire-fighting foam manufacturers alleging their products contaminated the area around the county’ airport.The Wisconsin State Journal reported that the county is...
May 5 2022 // Officials at a northwestern Wisconsin oil refinery knew about equipment issues years before a 2018 explosion there, according to Occupational Safety and Health Administration documents obtained by Wisconsin Public...
May 3 2022 // Two people were taken to a hospital after a second-floor balcony collapsed and sent roughly a dozen people falling 15 feet to the ground during a annual block party in Madison that attracted thousands of college...
Apr 22 2022 // The brother of former first lady Michelle Obama and his wife are suing a private Milwaukee school alleging it refused to allow their two sons to re-enroll after they voiced concerns that racism and inappropriate conduct at...
Apr 21 2022 // Proponents of legalizing marijuana in Wisconsin, for either medical or recreational use or both, get their first chance to make their case at a public hearing of a legislative committee Wednesday.The Senate committee...
Apr 14 2022 // An employee working at Crystal Finishing Systems Inc.’s aluminum extrusion facility in Weston, Wisconsin was hospitalized with serious injuries after being struck by a puller machine while trying to unjam a piece of...
Mar 30 2022 // Relation Insurance Services, Inc. announced it acquired the assets of Wisconsin-based Woller-Anger & Company. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Woller-Anger & Company is a full-service retail insurance...
Mar 15 2022 // Wisconsin Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul filed a lawsuit March 14 against Johnson Controls and Tyco Fire Products over PFAS pollution in northeastern Wisconsin.The lawsuit, filed in Marinette County Circuit Court,...
Mar 14 2022 // Despite the serious consequences of its actions, an Appleton, Wisconsin-based contractor was again cited for exposing workers to deadly fall hazards after a U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...