Justice

Federal funding is dwindling for victim support services including domestic violence shelters, crisis hotlines and counseling.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled in favor of two brothers who say they were wrongfully terminated after stealing scrap metal from the Oconomowoc Area School District. 

Inspired by Scandinavian noir, Hannah Morrissey has crafted several dark crime novels set in the fictional Wisconsin town, Black Harbor.

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul has joined other states in filing more than a dozen lawsuits, appeals or “friend of the court” filings, all pushing back on actions out of the White House and other federal agencies.

A California man made violent threats against leaders of an organic industry watchdog group based in southwest Wisconsin, an investigation found.

Marathon County District Attorney Kyle will ride in memory of Everest Metro Police Detective Jason Weiland.

Michael Gableman, the former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who led a failed investigation into the 2020 election results, should lose his license for three years, according to a recommendation from the Office of Lawyer Regulation.

At issue is a six-year-old state law which gives the Legislature’s Joint Committee on Finance the final say about whether to approval settlements in civil lawsuits prosecuted by state’s attorney general.

The heads of the Universities of Wisconsin system and the state Department of Corrections faced critical questions from Republican state lawmakers Tuesday over requests for new state funding.

The boy previously seemed to be improving, and UW health officials announced in mid-January that he had been upgraded to good condition. Since then, things have taken a turn for the worse.