Wisconsin

MILWAUKEE -- A Kansas-based company is buying controlling ownership in Milwaukee-based Wisconsin & Southern Railroad Co. The financial terms involving Watco Transportation Services LLC, based in Pittsburg, Kan., were not...

MADISON, Wis. -- A Madison man accused of slapping a female police officer on the buttocks has been cited for disorderly conduct. Police say the incident happened during the city's...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin state Senate plans to vote on a bill that would require sex education classes in schools to stress abstinence over contraception. The proposal up for...

MADISON, Wis. -- Gov. Scott Walker's administration has learned the state won't be getting $45 million from the federal government that it was counting on to fund heath care for...

TURTLE LAKE, WIS. -- Two men have been arrested and numerous pieces of stolen heavy equipment, including a Bobcat missing from a farm equipment dealer in Dassel, were recovered by...

MADISON, Wis. -- The residues of liberalism's Wisconsin Woodstock -- 1960s radicalism redux: operatic lamentations, theatrical demonstrations and electoral futilities -- are words of plaintive defiance painted on sidewalks around...

NEW RICHMOND, Wis. -- Willmar City Council's top choice for the city administrator position has now been named a finalist for the county administrator position in St. Croix County, Wis...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin judge today did what thousands of pro-union protesters and boycotting Democratic lawmakers couldn't, forcing Republican Gov.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Wisconsin judge issued a temporary restraining order today blocking the state's new and contentious collective bargaining law from taking effect, raising the possibility that the...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker succeeded Friday in taking away nearly all collective bargaining rights from the vast majority of the state's public employees, quietly capping weeks...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin lawmakers voted tpdau to strip nearly all collective bargaining rights from the state's public workers, ending a heated standoff over labor rights and delivering a...