Wisconsin's budget includes tax cuts, university funding boost and prison closure

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and Republicans who control the state Legislature announced a deal Tuesday on a new two-year budget that cuts income taxes, increases funding for the Universities of Wisconsin despite a threatened cut …

Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds State's Authority to Regulate PFAS Without Formal Rulemaking

On June 24, 2025, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected a challenge to the authority of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR) to compel the cleanup of perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl (PFAS) substances under Wisconsin’s Spills Law, Wis. …

Objection: The U Is Badgering the Player – University of Wisconsin Sues University of Miami over Tampering

The enforceability of player NIL contracts under the House v. NCAA settlement is already being tested before the ink has even dried on the court's final approval. In a potentially precedent-setting move, the University of Wisconsin filed a lawsuit …

GOP budget bill could shutter some Wisconsin Planned Parenthood clinics

A provision in the 'big, beautiful bill' being moved through Congress would block Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood. In Wisconsin, 60% of Planned Parenthood patients are on Medicaid. In parts of the state that have seen health …

Wisconsin budget deadline passes with key issues still unresolved

Train derailment in southeastern Wisconsin prompts hazmat response

HARTFORD (WLUK) -- Hazmat crews were called to a train derailment and diesel fuel spill in southeastern Wisconsin Monday morning. Authorities say the train derailed around 9:30 a.m. Three people were in the locomotive at the time. They were taken to the …

Martha’s Vineyard sheriff’s deputy posed as teen to solicit explicit photos from 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin, ...

A Cape Cod man who was employed as a deputy sheriff on Martha’s Vineyard in February when he was arrested on child porn charges out of Wisconsin was indicted Monday on similar charges in Massachusetts, prosecutors said Monday. Patrick Doran, 29, of Hyannis …

Wisconsin legislators fail to meet June 30 deadline for new state budget

MADISON (WKBT) -- Wisconsin lawmakers will not meet Monday's deadline for a new two-year state budget.  June 30 marks the end of the fiscal year for Wisconsin. With no new budget in place, state funding will continue at current levels until a new …

Wisconsin lawmakers release fraction of $50 million allocated for literacy law implementation

​COPYRIGHT 2025 BY NEWS 8 NOW/NEWS 8000. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. THIS MATERIAL MAY NOT BE PUBLISHED, BROADCAST, REWRITTEN OR REDISTRIBUTED. MADISON (WKBT) -- Wisconsin lawmakers have released $9 million to help implement Wisconsin's 2023 literacy law …

Wisconsin Legislature fails to meet state budget deadline for the first time since 2017

MADISON (WLUK) -- For the first time in eight years, state lawmakers have failed to complete a new biennial budget on time. Wisconsin's budget covers a two-year period from July 1 of one odd-numbered year through June 30 of the next odd-numbered year. …