Politics

2024 was a big year for Wisconsin politics. This upcoming year is going to be no different. WPR politics reporters Rich Kremer and Anya van Wagtendonk spoke with “Morning Edition” Alex Crowe about what stories they’re watching in 2025.

Walker’s Point Youth and Family Shelter is an emergency shelter for youth ages 11 to 17. It’s also the only shelter in southeast Wisconsin that serves pregnant youth and youth that have a child.

Wisconsin was front and center of politics for the majority of 2024. WPR Capitol Bureau Chief Shawn Johnson joined “Morning Edition” host Alex Crowe to sum it all up.

Jimmy Carter, the peanut farmer who tried to restore virtue to the White House after the Watergate scandal and Vietnam War, then rebounded from a landslide defeat to become a global […]

Election results under new state voting districts in Wisconsin mean more legislators now represent rural communities, a new analysis shows.

Parents from Decoding Dyslexia, the Wisconsin Reading Coalition, WI Reads and the International Dyslexia Association’s Wisconsin branch sent a letter to DPI last week, saying they’re concerned with implementation of Act 20.

Cullen was first elected to the state Senate in 1974 and served until 1987 as a Democrat. Petak was elected to the state Senate in 1990 and won reelection in 1994.

It’s still illegal to shoot fish with a gun in Wisconsin, but anglers will no longer face potential fines for carrying a firearm while wetting their lines in state waterways.

A coalition of groups are asking Wisconsin lawmakers to invest almost $1 billion in water infrastructure in addition to policy changes and other preventive measures to protect safe drinking water. 

Karen Hyun will be the state’s next secretary of the Department of Natural Resources, a cabinet position that’s gone unfilled for more than a year.