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When asked about whether Evers would wave his hand to let Wisconsin taxpayers use a new federal tax credit for education-related donations, the governor slammed the door.

State Rep. Joy Goeben and state Sen. Steve Nass have introduced a bill that would prohibit local governments from enacting a “rights of nature” ordinance.

Business leaders and educators are concerned about the future of the workforce in the Badger State — and debating whether many young Wisconsinites are just lazy.

A new requirement to hire a “special inspector” to be on hand during construction will add an estimated $20,000 to any store, school, office, factory or apartment building in the Wisconsin.

Fifteen kids — one only eight years old — just filed a lawsuit in Dane County, claiming that they are particularly vulnerable to air pollution and fossil fuel-caused climate change.

Beer production in Wisconsin, a state that prides itself on its brewing heritagen is down more than 15 percent in just the last four years, a victim of a confluence of local and national drinking trends.

Overwhelmingly popular new mandate spurs action from nonprofits Editor’s note: Fourteen years ago, the Badger Institute (then known as WPRI)…

School choice is 41 percent more effective in Racine, and in the rest of Wisconsin, money going to choice is spent 33 percent more effectively than in district schools.

In both Washington and Madison, basic economic principles are routinely ignored, as if policymakers believe they can repeal the laws of supply and demand with campaign slogans.

Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state.

The Vantage Data Center in Port Washington is on its way to becoming the largest single energy user in state history — an indication of the immense power needs of the five data centers in the works in Wisconsin.

As a Wisconsin stewardship program is up for renewal, northern counties’ budgets, economies are squeezed by how much land already is taken out of equation

Teen birthrates are a small fraction of what they used to be As some of America’s most prominent conservative voices…

Wisconsin’s tourism resurgence has been built, at least in part, by more than $160 million in federal bailout money and a record doubling of the tourism department’s budget.

Tony Evers has had enough and that’s not a good thing for Democrats. More Wisconsinites (48%) approve of the way…

A state Supreme Court decision wresting rulemaking authority from elected state representatives has opened the door to a barrage of new regulations and fees in Wisconsin.

And the real reason Wisconsin won’t join the modern world and let cars operate without drivers With automated, driverless robotaxis…

As self-driving taxis roll out across much of America, Wisconsinites won’t be seeing them without some changes to existing law.

There are 541 days until the next Legislature’s sworn in, and there’s plenty of unfinished business

The big picture: For every kid who enters MPS as a freshman each fall and goes on post-secondary education, there are at least two who do not, at least not in the year after high school ended.