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Eyes on federal agencies after state issues permits for Line 5 reroute
After securing key state permits, hurdles remain for Enbridge’s controverial plan to reroute Line 5 around the Bad River tribe’s reservation, including legal challenges and calls from tribal leaders to deny federal approval of the project.
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Eric Hovde concedes US Senate race to Tammy Baldwin
Republican Eric Hovde has conceded Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race to Democratic U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin. His announcement comes more than a week after unofficial totals showed Baldwin won the race by about 29,000 votes.
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Wisconsin Supreme Court to hear arguments in lawsuit over Meagan Wolfe ‘holdover’ appointment
Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday about whether Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe can keep her job amid a years-long Republican push to oust her.
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‘Our community is terrified’: Wisconsin immigrants brace for threat of mass deportations
On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised to lead the largest deportation effort in U.S. history.
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Marquette non-tenure-track faculty want union bargaining rights
Non-tenure-track faculty at Marquette University say a new promotion structure and pay raises are needed. But the school is claiming a religious exemption.
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Ascension to close small hospital, consolidate, close other services across southeast Wisconsin
The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021.
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Wisconsin’s shared revenue law creates recruitment challenge for Milwaukee police, fire departments
A bipartisan law overhauling local government funding has placed pressure on the city of Milwaukee to hire more police officers and firefighters in the coming years. That comes at a time when interest in the profession is dwindling.
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Wisconsin’s new Senate president still wants state to require transparency in hospital prices
The new No. 2 Republican leader in the Wisconsin state Senate on Thursday renewed her push for hospitals to be more transparent about what they charge for procedures.
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Wisconsin school board wants to bring back legislation banning transgender athletes from school sports
The Arrowhead Union High School board’s policy committee met Tuesday and unanimously said they would support a resolution directing the Wisconsin Association of School Boards to advocate for “no biological males in female sports.”
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Microsoft to use diesel-fired generators as backup power for data centers
Microsoft will use generators that rely on diesel or renewable fuel to provide backup power at its data centers as part of the company’s $3.3 billion data center campus in Mount Pleasant.