Three mayors from northeast Wisconsin are calling for the postponement of the state’s April 7 election, citing concerns about election workers’ health and challenges processing a recent flood of mail-in ballot requests.
On March 19, the state Department of Health Services said every community in the state should expect that the novel coronavirus is there. Here are the latest updates on the rapidly evolving response to the virus.
A doctor at the Waupun Correctional Institution has contracted COVID-19. News of the infection comes as several groups are demanding Gov. Tony Evers release inmates who are at risk of getting the new coronavirus from jails and prisons across Wisconsin.
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended Wisconsin's spring election. Absentee ballot requests are running at a record pace, and election clerks around the state are doing their best to keep up with demand.
How does unemployment insurance work, and how do you apply for benefits? Caleb Frostman, Wisconsin Secretary of Workforce Development, and Amy Banicki, deputy administrator of the unemployment insurance division, explain.
A new federal law that aims to address the COVID-19 crisis sailed through Congress with broad bipartisan votes, but Wisconsin's congressional delegation split along party lines.
A coronavirus aid package that divided Wisconsin's congressional delegation along party lines has passed the U.S. Senate. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Oshkosh, voted against the measure, while Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Madison, voted in favor of it.
