An Assembly committee has scheduled a hearing on a bill that would impose mandatory minimum sentences on drunken drivers.

Two state senators have re-introduced a bill that would require special interest groups who put out campaign issue ads to report their donors and spending.

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood is said to be assuring lawmakers that 149 small airport towers, including the one at the Central Wisconsin Airport in Mosinee will remain open.

Republican Rep. Paul Ryan is using a series of town hall meetings in Wisconsin this week to tout his support of a bipartisan immigration reform package that will grant citizenship to large numbers of Hispanics now living illegally in the United States.

A Wisconsin Assembly committee has approved a bill that would limit the amount of food stamp benefits that could be spent on junk food.

A Republican-sponsored bill that would give tax credits to parents of students in private schools has been introduced in the Legislature.

The manager at the Central Wisconsin Airport says even if the president signs the bill to end air traffic controllers furloughs, it doesn't automatically mean the tower there will stay open.

New estimates show Wisconsin's transportation fund is headed for a $63.5 million deficit by mid-2015.

Only a dozen out of 58 non-fiscal policy items identified in Gov. Scott Walker's budget are being removed by Republicans who head the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee.

Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus is coming home to Wisconsin to deliver the keynote speech at the state GOP convention.

Republican legislators are giving University of Wisconsin System officials a tongue-lashing over a report that shows the system has squirreled away a massive tuition surplus while raising students' rates for years.

Senior Army officials are warning they may have to cut as many as 100,000 more soldiers over the next decade unless the automatic spending reductions forcing the military services to slash their budgets are stopped.

Gov. Scott Walker says he is not looking to cut funding for the University of Wisconsin System in his proposed budget despite a report that it has amassed a huge tuition surplus.

Now that he's been blocked by Congress from expanding gun sale background checks, President Barack Obama is turning to actions his administration can take on its own.

The Senate has rejected a bipartisan effort to expand federal background checks to more firearms buyers in a crucial showdown over gun control.

Gov. Scott Walker has ordered all state flags be flown at half-staff to honor victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon.

Gov. Scott Walker wants Chinese Harley-Davidson riders to come to Milwaukee this summer to celebrate the company's 110th anniversary.

The state Assembly has approved a bill that would penalize the trafficking of the food stamp benefits in Wisconsin.

A state appeals court says Eau Claire County officials legally forced the sheriff and treasurer to contribute more to their health care and pensions.

Nearly 300,000 Wisconsin residents who have not voted in the past four years will receive a postcard titled “Notice of Suspension” this week.

Governor Scott Walker says he is urging Secretary of State John Kerry to move swiftly on the expansion of the Keystone Pipeline.

The Ginseng Board of Wisconsin has signed a 10-year, $200 million deal with one of China's largest medicine companies.

The Governor's office has released the names of the applicants who have applied for Marathon County Sheriff. Governor Scott Walker will appoint the new sheriff.

The first hurdle cleared with deceptive ease, the Senate turns to the heart of the battle over curbing gun violence next week when it considers a proposal to expand required federal background checks to gun shows and online firearms sales.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says that Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson is now the longest serving Supreme Court justice in state history.