Wisconsin Watch is partnering with the Center for Media Engagement on a program aimed at identifying and fact-checking falsehoods.

Incumbent Democrat Josh Kaul repeatedly sues Trump administration; Republican Eric Toney faults Kaul’s crime lab testing.

On Aug. 28, Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski, during a hearing for a defendant charged with triple homicide, learned the defendant had used a county jail-issued tablet to discuss threatening ...

Policymakers touted the law’s goal of keeping top students in-state and demystifying UW-Madison’s admissions. Early results raise doubts about its impact.

Several courthouses in the northern Wisconsin do not regularly screen visitors for weapons, The Badger Project found. But adding scanning machines would cost a lot.

Though Republican lawmakers have pushed for stricter voting rules, Gov. Tony Evers has blocked those efforts at several turns during his eight years in office, leaving election policy changes in a ...

The transmission utility filed a revised application after Wisconsin regulators ordered it to start over amid repeated project changes.

Milwaukee County sales and property taxes have increased under County Executive David Crowley. The Democratic nominee in the Nov. 3 election for governor takes credit for “the largest property tax cut ...

Tom Tiffany, the northern Wisconsin Republican running for governor in the Nov. 3 election, has rarely diverged from supporting President Donald Trump since Trump began his second term in January 2025 ...

The way unhoused people are counted annually makes it difficult to accurately tally people who live in their vehicles. Wisconsin Watch spoke to a family with young children and a woman who use ...

After years of stalled literacy efforts, Wisconsin’s latest reading law offers a fresh test of whether schools, policymakers and the public can stick with reform, Jim Zellmer writes.