Updated: 8:47 PM A new year means a new legislative session in Madison. Governor Walker was in Schofield today outlining his plans for the new year. One of his top priorities this session, getting a mining bill passed.

Posted: 11:19 AM Speaker Robin Vos and Majority Leader Scott Suder released a statement Wednesday calling the bill a top priority.

Posted: 11:11 AM New York area-lawmakers in both parties are erupting in anger, saying the House Republican leadership has decided to let Congress adjourn without holding a vote on aid for victims of Superstorm Sandy.

Updated: 12:44 PM Legislation to Avoid the Fiscal Cliff has now been passed by both the House and Senate. How did Wisconsin Representatives vote?

Posted: 9:44 PM Wisconsin's two U.S. senators both voted for a compromise bill meant to avert the fiscal cliff of across-the-board tax increases and sweeping spending cuts.

Posted: 9:27 AM Republican Gov. Scott Walker hasn't granted a pardon since he took office two years ago and has yet to appoint anyone to the state's Pardon Advisory Board.

Posted: 11:19 AM Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says the two sides are still apart as they race against a midnight deadline for resolving their differences over the "fiscal cliff."

Posted: 8:03 PM Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month.

Posted: 3:38 PM Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Pat Roggensack has submitted 4,000 signatures to get her name on the ballot for re-election next year.

Posted: 11:53 AM Retired public employees in Wisconsin could see their monthly payments decrease as much as 13 percent next year.

Posted: 9:04 AM Top members of Congress and President Barack Obama are holding out slim hopes for a limited fiscal deal before the new year. Congressional leaders are preparing to meet at the White House, but there are no signs that legislation palatable to both sides is taking shape.

Posted: 11:53 AM The deadline for state schools superintendent and Supreme Court candidates to submit nomination papers to run for Wisconsin is looming.

Posted: 11:51 AM A Dane County nonprofit will be marching in the presidential inauguration parade in Washington, D.C. next month.

Posted: 10:53 AM The Wisconsin Justice Department wants to shift millions of dollars from schools, prisons, gang diversion programs and public defenders to pay for collecting DNA upon arrest and fund services for sexual assault victims.

Updated: 8:45 PM It was another wild year in Wisconsin.

Posted: 5:55 PM Gov. Scott Walker is not backing down from his accounting of how many jobs Wisconsin has created since he took office in 2011, even though an independent review has disputed it.

Posted: 5:50 PM Wisconsin schools superintendent Tony Evers says he has no regrets about signing a petition to recall Republican Gov. Scott Walker.

Posted: 12:08 PM President Barack Obama is asking a team led by Vice President Joe Biden to offer "concrete proposals" to curb gun violence no later than January, in the aftermath of the horrific massacre at a Connecticut elementary school.

Posted: 9:01 PM Accessing a federal database of legal immigrants to examine whether they can legally vote in Wisconsin would require a law change and cost over $1 million over the next five years.

Posted: 9:32 AM Here's one more political reality that the Republican Party must confront: The number of unmarried married, an important voting group, is growing rapidly, and for decades, single women have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats.

Posted: 9:46 PM Democratic lawmakers and independent Sen. Joe Lieberman say that military-style assault weapons should be banned and that a national commission should be established to examine mass shootings in the United States.

Updated: 8:49 PM The president speaks at a vigil at Newtown High School following his private meetings with the families and first responders.

Posted: 3:40 PM Gov. Scott Walker says the Connecticut school shooting is a tragedy.

Updated: 12:38 PM Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl gave his final speech from the Senate floor.

Posted: 9:02 AM Incoming Sen. Tammy Baldwin has been named to Senate committees dealing with health, education, the budget and homeland security.