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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the vaccine skeptic and erstwhile presidential candidate now being tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to lead the nation’s health agency, would have the full backing of U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in a lawsuit over whether the state’s top elections official should be able to keep her job.

Service workers at Lakefront Brewery in Milwaukee are trying to form a union, the Milwaukee Area Service and Hospitality Workers Organization announced Monday.

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.

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.

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.

On the campaign trail, President-elect Donald Trump promised to lead the largest deportation effort in U.S. history.

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.

The Saint Louis-based hospital system will close its “micro-hospital,” which opened in Waukesha at the start of 2021. 

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.