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MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging organizations that recruit and train all-terrain vehicle (ATV) and utility terrain vehicle (UTV) safety instructors and volunteer trail ambassadors to apply for funding to support their programs. Organizations are

Yesterday’s vote by the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee would make the biggest cut in Medicaid history, cutting at least $715 B in federal spending from Medicaid that will have a significant impact on Wisconsin’s disability community. The Survival Coalition of

This Aging and Disability Resource Month and Older Americans Month, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is highlighting a statewide campaign to increase awareness of and improve access to ADRCs (aging and disability resource centers) and Tribal partner agencies.

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) today announced that the 2025 Spring Hearing questions and results are now available.  Just over 9,000 people responded to the 2025 Spring Hearing questionnaire either in person on April 14 or online from April 14

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Derrick Van Orden (WI-03) released the following statement after voting to pass the House Agriculture Committee’s budget reconciliation bill: “Transparency, sustainability, accountability: these are the three things this bill delivers for the American people. Every SNAP

Madison, Wis. – Child care providers, educators, parents, and community members from across the state will remain at the state Capitol today as they continue the “State Without Child Care” rally to demand the restoration of  the $480 million in

MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Justice Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) and the Delafield Police Department announced that Terrion D. Walker, 31, of Milwaukee, Wis., was charged with one count of first-degree reckless homicide for his connection with

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, at a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee Hearing, U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) pressed Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on mass layoffs at the agency that are impacting Wisconsin families, including

The Energy and Commerce Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives just concluded its markup of their portion of the federal budget reconciliation bill. The bill as it currently stands would cut $715 billion from the Medicaid program over the

Madison – Yesterday, Representative Billings worked with the Wisconsin Historical Society to feature a display of select items from the historical society’s Hmong Heritage exhibit in the Capitol Rotunda. This display commemorated 50 years of Hmong people in Wisconsin. Representative

Madison, Wis – During Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s U.S. Army Corps of Engineers hearing on the Line 5 relocation project, several Wisconsin labor leaders, tribal members and representatives from Wisconsin-based Michels corporation pushed for approval of the Enbridge Line 5 relocation

Madison – Child care providers, parents, and advocates from across Wisconsin gathered at the Capitol ahead of yesterday’s Assembly session, sounding the alarm on the urgent crisis facing early childhood education. Speakers from child care centers detailed the consequences of Republican

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MADISON, Wis. — A new article from Heartland Signal on Tuesday highlighted the crisis Wisconsinites could face if the Trump Administration and Republicans make devastating cuts to Medicaid. Tens of thousands of Wisconsinites could lose their health care coverage, putting vulnerable individuals at risk.

Yesterday, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee held a markup hearing on its proposal to cut at least $715 billion in federal spending from Medicaid—the largest proposed cuts to the program in history.  The scale of these cuts would

MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), today announced over $4 million in Wisconsin Employment Transportation Assistance Program (WETAP) grants for organizations across 54 Wisconsin counties to expand access to employment-related transportation opportunities and

The U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee is taking its first step on proposed efforts to cut at least $715 B from Medicaid over the next 10 years—which would be the largest Medicaid cut in the health program’s 60 year history—and

Yesterday, the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee began a mark-up hearing on its proposal to cut at least $715 billion in federal spending from Medicaid. The initial Congressional Budget Office estimates this proposal will result in at least 13.7

MADISON ­– Last week, five members of the Wisconsin State Legislature mailed a letter to U.S. Representative Scott Fitzgerald (R-CD5) to publicly condemn his support of House Republicans’ recent budget bill and urged him to take swift action against the

MADISON, Wis. — In a major step forward for economic development in Northwest Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers has issued a letter of support for designating Douglas County as a Historically Underutilized Business Zone (HUBZone), following advocacy from State Representative Angela