While slave owners plied enslaved people with meals and downtime to prevent rebellions, many used this respite for escapes or ...

The U.S. Senate approved a bipartisan bill to increase Social Security benefits for millions of Americans by ending ...

Gov. Tony Evers named NOAA Chief of Staff Dr. Karen Hyun as the next secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural ...

Wisconsin high school students marched on the Capitol to demand that adults take seriously the scourge of gun violence after ...

Next session about 45% of the Legislature will be Democrats, but they will only make up one-quarter of the finance committee ...

A Kansas City, Missouri, man who pleaded guilty to entering the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and expects a pardon from ...

The legislation would suspend the nation’s debt limit for two years through January 2027 set a September deadline for the ...

Assembly leaders have announced their appointments to the influential Joint Finance Committee for next session. The 16-member ...

The Wisconsin Board of Commissioners of Public Land will provide $70 million next year to school libraries through the Common ...

Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes was named chief of the Seattle Police Department, just days after the Abundant Life school ...

The DNR has announced that it is investigating the Enbridge Line 6 oil leak, which released at least 69,000 of crude oil.

Biden set records for appointing the most women and more judges from Black, Native American, Latino and Latina and other ...