Government & Politics

Some Milwaukee business and education leaders are asking Gov. Tony Evers and state lawmakers to dedicate a portion of the state’s projected surplus to increase funding for Wisconsin's K-12 schools.

Strauss Brands is dropping plans to build a 152,000-square-foot slaughterhouse along Loomis Road in Franklin and will instead look to sell the 30-acre property where it planned to build the meat processing facility.

A report today from Politico says that Milwaukee has become the favorite to host the 2024 Republican National Convention.

The site selection committee for the 2024 Republican National Convention will tour Milwaukee today and Thursday as it evaluates the city as a possible host site for the event.

Pleasant Prairie Village Board this week voted to close one of its tax incremental districts (Tax Incremental District No. 2, or TID 2), a move which brings nearly $1 billion in additional property value to the Kenosha County village’s tax base.

The state of Wisconsin is making $1 million available to support the recruitment and training of new teachers in low-income and urban area school districts.

Twenty-five Milwaukee-area nonprofit organizations learned this week they received $1 million grants as part of a $82 million grant allocation aimed at supporting communities disproportionately affected by the pandemic statewide.

Port Milwaukee and the Milwaukee County Zoo will each get $3.5 million in federal funds for improvement projects.

Milwaukee-based Hayat Pharmacy has agreed to pay $2,050,000 to settle claims it submitted false claims to Medicare and Medicaid for a topical cream and a multivitamin.

The number of union members or workers who are represented by a union in the state fell in 2021,...