Wisconsin State Journal Local News

Here's how members of Wisconsin's congressional delegation voted on major issues this week. 

BROOKFIELD - Clayton Showalter Wenger passed away early in the morning, June 1, 2015, at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Ariz., several days after emergency surgery. He was born June 2, 1976…

BLUE MOUNDS - Ivàn Michael Peterson Hernandez, 5 lbs. 7 oz. and 20 inches, was born into Heaven on Wednesday, June 3, 2015, at Upland Hills Health in Dodgeville. For 39 weeks, Ivàn grew inside…

LA CROSSE / MOUNT HOREB - Carol E. Rue, age 86, passed away Thursday, June 4, 2015, at Hillview Healthcare Center in La Crosse. She was born on March 7, 1929, to Harley Barton and Palma Olympi…

Daniel P. Fern, 20, of Edgerton, was arrested for causing injury by operating a vehicle while intoxicated after he crashed his pick-up truck into a tree on Jacobus Road around 12:45 a.m.

Regent Mark Bradley railed against the proposed changes, saying they were introduced without any consultation with the people they'd most affect -- university faculty and administrators -- and…

The UW Board of Regents on Friday approved a merger of UW Hospital and UW Medical Foundation, UW-Madison's doctor group.

Downtown Madison will get some two-wheeled traffic this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for Ride the Drive, the only such event planned for this year.

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, facing what's expected to be a stiff re-election challenge from former Sen. Russ Feingold, is striving to portray Feingold as an entitled career politician.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton want roll back some of the restrictive new voting laws (such as Voter ID) that conservative states have recently implemented. 

The left wing of the Democratic Party is having a magic moment.

Minnesota hopes the arrival of three popular teams — Milwaukee on Friday, and the Cubs and Cardinals later in June — will further boost attendance.

Close to 40 unlocked vehicles in the city's Near West Side and West Side neighborhoods have been robbed over the past five weeks. 

Roberto M. Rodriguez-Sostre, 19, did not return to jail after he was released Thursday morning to attend a job training program, police said.

Just three percent of the state remains in a moderate drought that plagued nearly half of the state two weeks ago.

The Milwaukee brewery first teamed with sustainable and urban farming nonprofit Growing Power Inc. more than a decade ago to compost brewing waste.

Familiar faces have turned Broadway's Tony Awards into must-see TV. 

A federal judge just excoriated the State Department for sitting on Hillary Clinton's emails, ordering it to release batches every 30 days. The State Department deserved the rebuke, but then i…

Ricardo Holloway, 20, of Beloit is wanted in connection with the shooting that put a man in a hospital with multiple gunshot wounds.

Four candidates are vying for party chairperson after one candidate dropped from the race Thursday.