Posted: 7:22 AM The Legislature's budget committee is poised to decide whether to create a solicitor general's office within the state Justice Department.

Updated: 5:46 PM Governor Scott Walker is gearing up for re-election next year. But the Wisconsin Republican's actions suggest he might be seeking a much bigger prize -- the presidency in 2016.

Posted: 2:31 PM Unemployment rates improved in nearly all 72 Wisconsin counties last month.

Posted: 7:46 AM Public safety workers could collectively bargain over their health insurance premiums but not other costs of their plan under action taken by the Legislature's budget committee.

Posted: 9:23 AM It would be harder to recall a local Wisconsin elected official from office under a proposal up for a hearing before a legislative committee.

Posted: 9:22 AM A wide-reaching change that would allow the state to sell off properties ranging from prisons and power plants to University of Wisconsin dormitories and state highways is up for approval before the Legislature's budget committee.

Updated: 10:42 AM A new report says the sand mining and natural gas industries have given Wisconsin candidates nearly $758,000 since 2007, with contributions spiking last year as sand mining took off in the state.

Posted: 3:55 PM A proposed work requirement for food stamps recipients in Wisconsin is projected to knock half of the people off the program.

Posted: 3:16 PM State workers who smoke would have to pay $50 more per month for health insurance under a proposal by Gov. Scott Walker.

Posted: 12:58 PM Democrats say a move to standardize erosion control rules for commercial construction sites is simply another Republican effort to take away local authorities' power.

Posted: 7:20 AM Wisconsin lawmakers are set this week to consider Gov. Scott Walker's plan to take DNA from anyone arrested for a felony and anyone convicted of any crime.

Posted: 7:10 AM Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to more than double the amount of time a public employee must stay retired before being hired for another job is up for consideration this week by the Legislature's budget committee.

Posted: 7:11 AM Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will visit Iowa this week to deliver a speech that may bolster speculation that he will run for president in 2016.

Posted: 4:07 PM The cost of Gov. Scott Walker's plan to reject federally funded Medicaid expansion and instead tighten income eligibility for the program has gone up.

Posted: 5:01 PM A group of Democrats and an immigration rights organization which sued the state over redistricting have dropped their efforts to determine why Republicans failed to turn over records in the case.

Posted: 4:47 PM The White House is releasing 100 pages of e-mails and notes related to the Obama administration's response to the attack on a diplomatic facility in Benghazi, Libya, last September.

Posted: 4:25 PM The Legislature's budget committee has approved reducing wolf hunt license fees.

Posted: 2:21 PM A Marquette University law school poll released Tuesday says 51 percent of respondents approve of the way Gov. Scott Walker is doing his job, while 45 percent disapprove.

Updated: 2:18 PM The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that would bar Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. employees from negotiating contracts they may have a financial stake in.

Updated: 2:16 PM The state Assembly has passed on a Republican bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars.

Posted: 2:00 PM The state Assembly has approved a Republican bill that would allow bars and liquor stores to sue underage patrons or their parents for $1,000.

Posted: 11:52 AM Unemployed people in Wisconsin would have to double their searches for work from two to four a week or lose their benefits under a proposal up for a vote.

Posted: 9:24 AM A bill that would put $25 million in state money into Wisconsin startups is up for a vote in a legislative committee.

Posted: 4:04 PM Gov. Scott Walker will meet privately with the Dalai Lama during the Tibetan spiritual leader's visit to Wisconsin next week.

Posted: 11:29 AM The GOP-controlled House has passed a bill to put U.S. bondholders and people on Social Security at the front of the line to be paid if the government hits its borrowing limit.