Chesnie Wardell serves as a reporting fellow for NNS. In addition to compiling our popular “5 things to know and do” lists, ...

The budget doesn’t include full-year postpartum Medicaid, public land acquisition funds or money for more public defenders.

There aren’t official records on how many people have their crimes expunged, but one estimate puts it at 2,000 per year.

You won. The damn nursing home hasn’t been sold, and it hasn’t been closed,” the county board chair tells residents as a ...

Jess D’Souza had hoped to finally turn a profit this year, aided by a federal program to bolster local food systems. The Trump administration canceled the program, upending her plans.

Nearly every Wisconsin county is vaccinating a smaller share of children than before the pandemic. Health officials are ...

A student journalist uncovered examples of late-night texts, free rides and sharing of police intel to help students avoid bar raids.

Emily Sterk is completing a national fellowship at the Milwaukee Turners, where she blends rigorous research and coalition-building to confront mass incarceration.

Three years ago, a brother and sister crossed the border days apart and asked for asylum. Now she has a green card and he’s in an ICE prison.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers signed a new two-year budget in the early morning hours Thursday in a race against Congress to ensure the state gets a federal Medicaid match that it would lose under ...

Starting in the late 1990s and 2000s, Wisconsin’s “truth-in-sentencing” law, which requires people convicted of crimes to serve their full prison sentences with longer paroles, resulted in both a ...

The largest-cut claim was made by Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, who represents part of southeastern Wisconsin. His office cited a $1.7 trillion claim made by the Trump administration.