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  • Elon Musk presents a check for $1 million dollars during a town hall Sunday, March 30, 2025, in Green Bay, Wis. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Phelps)Politics

    Elon Musk hands out $1 million checks to 2 Wisconsin voters after state Supreme Court declines AG request to stop him

    By Thomas Beaumont, Scott Bauer, and others
  • FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Politics

    Wisconsin AG asks state’s top court to stop Musk’s $1 million payments to voters amid hotly contested judicial election

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Elon Musk attends the finals for the NCAA wrestling championship, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Philadelphia. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)Politics

    Elon Musk pledges to ‘personally’ deliver $2 million in prizes to Wisconsin voters amid bid to influence the Supreme Court race that could benefit Tesla

    By The Associated Press and Scott Bauer
  • Mourners hold candles at a vigil after a school shooting in WisconsinLifestyle

    The 15-year-old girl who killed a student and teacher in Wisconsin was brand-new at the school but raised no red flags

    By Scott Bauer, Giovanna Dell'Orto, and others
  • FILE – This file photo taken Feb. 17, 2011 shows protestors of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers packing the rotunda at the State Capitol in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)Success

    Wisconsin unions score major win with court ruling that restores collective bargaining rights lost in 2011

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Trump speaking at podiumPolitics

    Trump vows to prosecute those involved in ‘unscrupulous behavior’ this election

    By Michael Goldberg, Jill Colvin, and others
  • FILE – Protestors in support of Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, top, demonstrate against a labor rally across the street at bottom, in solidarity with Wisconsin’s union workers Wednesday, Feb. 23, 2011 outside the State Capitol in Atlanta. A Wisconsin judge is scheduled to hear arguments Tuesday, May 28, 2024, in a case brought by unions representing teachers and public workers who are trying to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)Politics

    Wisconsin law that banned collective bargaining for most public employees back in court as unions sue to have it overturned

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Donald TrumpPolitics

    One day after being cited for contempt, Donald Trump insulted the judge presiding over his case

    By Adriana Gomez Licon, Scott Bauer, and others
  • AmazonRetail

    Amazon drivers are workers, Wisconsin Supreme Court rules in closely watched case

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • FILE – A crowd fills the Wisconsin Capitol rotunda on the fifth day of labor demonstrations, Feb. 16, 2011, in Madison, Wis. Thousands came to protest the governor’s proposal to eliminate collective bargaining for most public workers. Seven unions representing teachers and other public workers in Wisconsin filed a lawsuit Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023, attempting to end the state’s near-total ban on collective bargaining for most public employees. (Craig Schreiner/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)Politics

    Unions are suing Wisconsin to end the state’s ban on collective bargaining for most public employees—after Missouri’s top court struck down a similar law

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Tony EversPolitics

    Wisconsin’s governor, a former teacher, just locked in 400 years of school funding through a veto: ‘It’s creative for sure’

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • FILE – Patrons sit in a hotel bar in Eau Claire, Wis., May 1, 2019. Fourteen-year-olds in Wisconsin could serve alcohol to seated customers in bars and restaurants under a bill circulated for cosponsors Monday, May 1, 2023, by a pair of Republican state lawmakers. (John Hart/Wisconsin State Journal via AP, File)Success

    Wisconsin Republicans just introduced a bill that would let 14-year-olds serve alcohol in bars

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Garrett Mitchell gets a hit during a game between the Milwaukee Brewers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at American Family FieldFinance

    Milwaukee Brewers’ $300 million taxpayer-funded stadium plan is dead, top Republican says

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Tony EversPolitics

    Wisconsin joins at least 20 other states in banning TikTok on government phones and devices

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press
  • Tony EversPolitics

    Wisconsin Republicans demand Democratic governor ban TikTok from state devices despite no evidence it’s actually on any

    By Scott Bauer and The Associated Press