Governor

With Wisconsin facing understaffed district attorney offices throughout the state, a handful of lawmakers are pushing for money in the next budget to add prosecutors in counties they represent.

Republicans claim it’s now state money and demand it to go to Wisconsin’s general fund.

Tim Muth with the ACLU of Wisconsin said it’s “nothing new” for the Trump administration to threaten and intimidate state and local officials over immigration policy.

Republican Josh Schoemann, the top elected official in a suburban Milwaukee county, this week created a committee to run for governor in 2026, making him the first candidate from either major party to get into the race.

As Wisconsin grapples with an uncertain future when it comes to federal funding, a new audit sheds some light on how the state handled federal money in the last budget.

Gov. Tony Evers is trying to recruit displaced federal workers to Wisconsin following mass layoffs by the Trump Administration.

In 2016, Wisconsin’s neighboring state created the first in-prison trade school, and it has since been replicated across the nation. Gov. Tony Evers wants to turn Waupaun’s prison into a similar facility.

Gov. Tony Evers is proposing $25 million in his capital budget for renovations at the Milwaukee County Courthouse complex. 

Gov. Tony Evers unveiled a capital budget Monday that calls for $4.1 billion in new building projects around the state, with the largest chunk going toward Universities of Wisconsin campuses.

Gov. Tony Evers said the latest lawsuit joined by the state of Wisconsin against President Donald Trump’s administration gets at “who’s in charge” of the federal government.