People in recovery from substance abuse are at risk of relapse amid the stress of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recovery communities across the state are responding with virtual meetings and plenty of check-ins.
Wisconsin's "safer-at-home" order includes a long list of essential business operations that may continue during the COVID-19 pandemic. Weddings and funerals are on the list, but many people are postponing them.
The Wisconsin Elections Commission deadlocked over a plan to reprimand two county clerks for guidance they issued to absentee voters amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
On March 29, the state Department of Health Services announced that there are 1,112 positive cases of COVID-19 statewide, as well as 16,550 negative tests.
Gov. Tony Evers' administration will move forward on its own with the purchase of up to 10,000 ventilators and a million protective masks after GOP lawmakers rejected the governor's plan for a more sweeping state response to COVID-19.
Gov. Tony Evers released a sweeping legislative package to address the COVID-19 outbreak in Wisconsin. It would provide aid to local public health departments as well as implement significant changes to the state's spring 2020 election.