by Andrew Beckett | Feb 15, 2017
A candidate for state Superintendent is claiming one of his opponents proposed one of them could get a six-figure job with the Department of Public Instruction, if he agreed to drop out of the race and the remaining candidate won the office. John Humphries made the...
by Bill Scott | Feb 8, 2017
The 5/7 ranked Wisconsin Badgers opened a two-game lead atop the Big Ten Conference race despite not even playing. The Badgers will travel to Nebraska to face the Cornhuskers Thursday night and will take the court up two games on both Maryland and Purdue. Maryland was...
by Andrew Beckett | Nov 7, 2016
Wisconsin’s U.S. Senate race is entering the final stretch, as both candidates hit the campaign trail Monday for one final day of urging voters to get out to the polls on Tuesday. The race has become extremely tight in recent weeks, with the most recent...
by Andrew Beckett | Aug 16, 2016
Candidates in the U.S. presidential race will once again be making stops in Wisconsin today. Republican nominee Donald Trump has several appearances planned, which include a private fundraiser in La Crosse and two public appearance in the Milwaukee area. Trump will...
by Andrew Beckett | Jul 18, 2016
Wisconsin Congressman Glenn Grothman says race relations across the country are worse than they have been than in the past 50 years, and he’s putting at least some of the blame on police for shootings that have provoked recent protests across the country. In an...
by Andrew Beckett | Apr 6, 2016
The number of voters who turned out to cast ballots in Wisconsin’s presidential primary appears to have far exceeded expectations. The state Government Accountability Board had anticipated about 40 percent of the state’s voting age population would cast...
by Bill Scott | Apr 4, 2016
Eau Claire native Paul Menard earned his first Top-Ten finish of the year in the NASCAR Sprint Cup circuit. Menard took eighth on Sunday at the S-T-P 500 in Martinsville, Virginia, and he rose one place in the season point standings to 21st. Matt Kenseth of Cambridge...
by Andrew Beckett | Mar 28, 2016
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton spent much of a campaign stop in Madison Monday blasting Republicans for refusing to hold hearings or a vote on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, Merrick Garland, arguing that the obstructionism is “revealing...
by Andrew Beckett | Mar 28, 2016
With just over a week to go before the primary, the presidential race is heating up in Wisconsin. Several of the candidates were in the state last week, and many more stops are expected in the coming days. With Wisconsin’s April 5 primary standing alone,...
by Andrew Beckett | Jan 15, 2016
State appellate court Judge JoAnne Kloppenburg was the top fundraiser so far, among the three candidates running for the state Supreme Court this spring. Reports filed with the state show Kloppenburg raised $278,447 last year. That put her ahead of Milwaukee County...
by Jackie Johnson | Apr 16, 2015
Governor Scott Walker’s job approval rating has gone down since last fall. Among registered voters in Wisconsin, 56 percent of those surveyed in the latest Marquette University Law School poll say they disapprove of how Walker is handling his job as governor,...
by Andrew Beckett | Nov 3, 2014
Absentee voters turned out in force during the two weeks before Tuesday’s election in Wisconsin. The state Government Accountability Board says, as of Monday afternoon, local clerks had recorded 289,615 ballots. Of those, 216,361 were early votes cast in a...
by Andrew Beckett | Jul 24, 2014
Advocates for access to birth control say Governor Scott Walker’s administration is improperly using a U.S. Supreme Court ruling as an excuse to not enforce aspects of a state law. The state Office of the Commissioner of Insurance said this week it would stop...
by WRN Contributor | Jun 18, 2014
Clark County authorities have released details about a traffic stop that turned into a drug bust last month. Jeffrey Mertens, 29, from Sheldon had an initial court appearance Tuesday. He was stopped for speeding the evening of May 27th on Highway 29 near Abbotsford....
by Bill Scott | May 20, 2014
After losing 67 games last season, the Milwaukee Bucks are hoping for some luck tonight when the NBA holds its annual Draft Lottery. Fourteen teams will find out the draft order for the upcoming June NBA Draft. The Bucks have the best chance (25%) of securing the top...
by Bill Scott | Feb 9, 2014
The race is getting tighter in men’s basketball at the top of the Horizon League. The UW-Milwaukee Panthers used a 20-5 second half run to build a lead and hold off the Green Bay Phoenix 73-63 on Saturday at the Resch Center. Green Bay’s 11-game home...
by Bill Scott | Oct 28, 2013
Jeff Gordon snapped a 32-race winless streak by using a late pass of Matt Kenseth to win at Martinville Speedway. Gordon got by Kenseth with 21 laps to go and held on for his eighth career victory at Martinsville, but first since 2005. Kenseth (Cambridge, WI) finished...
by Andrew Beckett | Oct 14, 2013
Waukesha County’s district attorney wants to be Wisconsin’s next Attorney General. Republican Brad Schimel on Monday formally announced he will be a candidate for Wisconsin Attorney General in 2014. Schimel has been district attorney in Waukesha County...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 28, 2013
Charity rubber duck races have become a common fundraiser in communities across Wisconsin. However, there are new concerns that they might actually be illegal under state gambling laws. The issue came to the attention of state Representative Andre Jacque (R-De Pere)...
by Bill Scott | Jul 1, 2013
Jimmie Johnson by far, led the most laps yesterday, but it was matt Kenseth (Cambridge, Wis.) that took the checkered flag to win the Quaker State 400 at Kentucky Speedway. The race was rained out on Saturday night. Kenseth won a series high 4th race of the season...
