Guns

Last month, Wisconsin’s Office of Violence Prevention officially began operations to spend $10 million in grants that will go to organizations and local governments across the state working to combat violence.

Republicans state lawmakers are considering proposals that would increase access to guns in Wisconsin, including one that would make it easier to carry concealed weapons and another that would further enshrine gun rights in the state constitution.

Homicides increased by 8 percent in Milwaukee last year after the city experienced two straight years of declines.

A trans Middleton person has used the nonbinary X on IDs to better reflect their identity and appearance. The Trump administration is now requiring people to use the gender they were originally assigned on their birth certificates on passports.

Violent crime is down by over 20 percent in Milwaukee but homicides are still increasing compared to last year. 

A UW-Madison counseling psychologist offers advice for helping young people and adults manage mental health after traumatic events like recent shootings.

Wisconsinites struggling with suicidal thoughts could add themselves to a “do not sell” list that would prevent them from purchasing firearms, under a Democratic proposal circulating in the state Legislature.

Debra Gillispie’s grief journey took her from outrage and a mission to shut down a bar, to driving across the country and back, to 20 years of leading local advocacy and reform efforts, and ultimately, to the prison that’s holding the man who killed her son.

Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson is clapping back at Republican state lawmakers who say city leaders aren’t doing enough to address violent crime.  

The mother of the 15-year-old girl who opened fire at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, killing two people before killing herself, has died by apparent suicide.