Politics

For the first time since 2015, a liberal has been elected chief justice of Wisconsin’s Supreme Court. Outgoing Justice Ann Walsh Bradley will take the helm for the next two months before retiring and will be succeeded by fellow liberal Justice Jill Karofsky for the remainder of the two-year term.

Wisconsin leaders are reacting to Trump tariffs with tempered optimism, concern or outright castigation.

Wisconsin’s economic ties with Germany are in focus for state politicians as new tariffs are put in place.

Shaundel Washington-Spivey will be the next mayor of La Crosse, becoming the city’s first leader who is Black and who is openly gay.

Tuesday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court election was unambiguously a good one for Democrats. The only debate is over how many superlatives to add.

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 state superintendent and education officials in northeast Wisconsin are calling on the Legislature’s Republican-controlled budget committee to boost funding to K-12 schools in the next two-year state budget.

UW-Madison professor J. Michael Collins explains what impact Social Security changes will have for recipients.

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.

State Superintendent Jill Underly was reelected Tuesday, beating educational consultant Brittany Kinser to continue leading Wisconsin’s Department of Public Instruction.