The Wisconsin Senate has approved Republican-backed bills that would create new hurdles for the elderly and disabled to cast absentee ballots, limit the number and location of ballot drop boxes and impose new penalties for violating election law.

As Milwaukee COVID-19 infection numbers remain low, health officials are trying to boost immunization numbers, which are lower than the national average.

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee admissions staff hit the road in Wisconsin and northern Illinois, visiting high schools to answer admitted students’ questions and to encourage them to enroll.

Wisconsin’s largest private university is requiring students attending in-person classes this fall to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by August 1.

On board the International Space Station this week is a Wisconsin experiment that could help the growing of cotton on Earth.

Marquette University psychology professor Nakia Gordon says that virtual reality training allows officers to gain insight and understanding, and hopefully empathy.

COVID-19 vaccination rates in Milwaukee and Milwaukee County continue to trail statewide rates in Wisconsin by a few percentage points. Health officials say the metro area's lowest rates continue to be in some Black and Latino neighborhoods that score high on a federal Social Vulnerability Index.

Republican Sen. Ron Johnson on Thursday said he remains undecided about seeking a third term in 2022, stopped short of recommending people be vaccinated for the COVID-19 virus and refused to blame former President Donald Trump for the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

A state task force on racial disparities introduced a bipartisan bill that would require data collection on no-knock warrants, but some want to go further by putting restrictions the practice.

U.S. Rep. Gwen Moore of Milwaukee is among the House Democrats who think their party should pass a large federal infrastructure bill with or without Republican support.