Wisconsin is now seeing “generalized community spread” of COVID-19 with local hot spots developing, said Dr. Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer and state epidemiologist for communicable diseases in the Department of Health Services. “There’s a slow burn that’s heating up in many areas of the state,” Westergaard told “UpFront,” produced

Dem lawmakers unveiled legislation aimed at overhauling the state’s overwhelmed unemployment program by removing obstacles in the application process and broadening access. Meanwhile, Department of Administration Secretary Joel Brennan announced that 100 state employees are being temporarily reassigned to help the Department of Workforce Development with unemployment insurance processing. That

Dem AG Josh Kaul has joined a multi-state lawsuit seeking to block a new Trump administration rule that would prevent international students from studying in the U.S. this fall if their classes are totally online. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement last week amended its rules so that nonimmigrant F-1 students

The state Supreme Court today ruled three of Gov. Tony Evers’ partial vetoes in the 2019-21 budget were unconstitutional. Meanwhile, the court upheld one of Evers’ partial vetoes. But in a twist, the court couldn’t agree on a rationale for why the three partial vetoes violated the Wisconsin Constitution. In

DOT Secretary Craig Thompson said it will likely be a year to 18 months before the state could get federal approval to put the long-delayed I-94 East-West expansion back in the pipeline. That would then mean putting the project in the 2023-25 budget. Gov. Tony Evers and Thompson announced yesterday

Gov. Tony Evers urged the public to embrace wearing masks as the Madison and Dane County health department announced one will be required when people are around others in any enclosed building other than their own homes. The order — the first one in the state — from Public Health

Assembly Speaker Robin Vos’ popcorn company received a loan of at least $150,000, one of thousands that went to Wisconsin businesses as part of a federal program to help companies retain employees amid the fallout from COVID-19. The Small Business Administration Monday released a list of loans awarded to companies

COVID-19 cases are rising across the country and in Wisconsin, and more young people are getting sick from it, one of the region’s top doctors said. Young people “have a different way of looking at life and thinking about risk,” said Dr. John Raymond, president and CEO of the Medical

A Wisconsin member of the Democratic National Committee said Milwaukee should get another chance to host the Democratic National Convention in 2024. Democrats last week announced this year’s convention in Milwaukee largely will be a virtual event due to COVID-19, with many side events canceled and remaining events moved to

Protesters last night tore down the statues of Lady Forward and Union Civil War Col. Hans Christian Heg at the state Capitol and assaulted a state senator photographing the events. But Gov. Tony Evers says this morning that both statues had been recovered and the Capitol building had not been

State Sen. Luther Olsen tells WisPolitics.com he hopes the Department of Public Instruction’s COVID-19 safety guidelines remain recommendations and the department leaves the final say up to local districts. “Every community is different; size is different and circumstances are different,” said Olsen, R-Ripon and chair of the Senate Education Committee.