The Milwaukee Police Department fails the community and its own officers by not communicating clearly, making too many traffic stops and applying inconsistent standards when disciplining officers, ...

Laden with aluminum cans, Gary Gates rides his bike to a recycling center near his home in Madison, Wis. Wisconsin's fully funded, one-of-a-kind pension system surprises people, but not those who know ...

Wisconsin residents voted Tuesday in a number of contested state and local races, and local referendums.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee's open housing marches, which focused attention on a knot of persistent urban problems. This project is part of an ongoing series of stories, videos ...

Take an empty steel drum, one that once held a flammable chemical or even something as common as motor oil. Now seal it tight and let it sit. Let the fumes remain bottled up inside for days, months, ...

Wisconsin residents voted April 6 in the 2021 spring election for state superintendent and local races.

A Wisconsin program that allows elderly and severely ill prisoners to be released early from prison could save state taxpayers millions of dollars a year. But hundreds of the state’s elderly prisoners ...

Long a player on the national stage, the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation in Milwaukee has been quietly using its vast resources to construct state-by-state networks of activist groups to win ...

Michael Griffin was 200 yards from the steel drum company in St. Francis and knew something was wrong. He could smell it. It was November 2015 and the state air management engineer was on his way to a ...

Search the 2020 salaries and compensation data for more than 40,000 Wisconsin state employees. Click on an employee's name to see a detailed breakdown of overtime, compensatory and other kinds of pay, ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Milwaukee's open housing marches, which focused attention on a knot of persistent urban problems. This project is part of an ongoing series of stories, videos ...

With her father in prison and her mother wrapped up in drugs and prostitution, LaTasha Armstead dropped out of sixth grade to take care of her little sister and grandmother. Soon, her mom was back, ...