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With fewer passengers and mostly empty seats, it’s time to shut down the Hop, Milwaukee’s $128 million streetcar.

Cities could ease the squeeze of low housing supply by allowing more market-driven urban infill, say scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.

More than half of the employees in the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development and more than 40% in the Department of Administration still work remotely, five years after COVID sent them home.

Despite a much ballyhooed second line added last April, ridership on Milwaukee’s financially challenged streetcar, the Hop, last year was still nearly 30% below that of pre-COVID 2019.

Allowing more home construction on smaller lots in Wisconsin would substantially drive down prices, according to a new analysis by scholars at the American Enterprise Institute.

If Brittany Kinser wins Wisconsin’s race for state school superintendent, it would be the first victory over union-backed candidates since 1981.

By one measure, Outagamie and Brown at top of list Meth is injected, smoked, snorted or ingested in just about…

Unlike many places in Wisconsin, there is no housing crisis in the Village of Hobart because its leaders have done something developers say is exceedingly rare — making it as easy and predictable as possible for them to do business there.

Years after we first reported on daily calls to police from MPS high schools, the Milwaukee Public Schools finally obeyed a judge’s order and placed cops back in the hallways this week.

Supporting new nuclear power in Wisconsin by supporting SJR7 / AJR6 will give energy developers an encouraging clarity.

Spent uranium isn’t the plant owners’ responsibility because Uncle Sam bigfooted his way into the matter in 1982, then accomplished nothing.

Wisconsin was one of the lowest-ranked states in a state-by-state index of teacher morale released by the news outlet Education Week in early March.

Lawmakers are seeking support for legislation that would prohibit Wisconsin’s 700,000 FoodShare recipients from buying candy and soda with program benefits.

Those who staff emergency medical services in Door County, WI can’t easily afford to live there… and there’s little sign that things are soon to get better.

Wisconsin residents report the increasing strain of trying to afford a home. These experiences are borne out by market data showing more Wisconsin residents priced out of homeownership.

Wisconsin’s governor talks of new 9.8% top tax rate — one that would wallop businesses that don’t flee.

First in a series on housing in the Badger State, Out of reach: Wisconsin’s housing crisis and hope for the…

Rep. David Steffen and Sen. Julian Bradley are circulating a joint resolution supporting expansion of nuclear energy production in Wisconsin.

Direct primary care bills being considered in Madison provide a solution that could make Wisconsin healthcare cheaper and more accessible.

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction has flatly stated that the most pressing challenge currently facing the state education system is teacher retention. Two different analyses conducted by the Badger Institute at a statewide level appear to contradict the DPI’s findings.