President Joe Biden is "optimistic" that progress can be made in the battle against cancer, convening a meeting in the Oval Office with a grou…
State Republicans have grown increasingly critical of school districts that continue to offer virtual courses.
Two big projects originally slated to be part of the Covid-19 relief bill but criticized as being unrelated to coronavirus relief will be pull…
Evers has the authority to allocate about $20.8 million in federal funding to education entities based on a formula of his choosing.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and state legislative leaders have reached an agreement aimed at getting most public school children back in clas…
After they lost the 2012 presidential election, Republicans led by possible 2022 gubernatorial candidate Reince Priebus, conducted an autopsy …
The Free to Dream initiative will support the American Family Dreams Foundation and the American Family Institute of Corporate and Social Impact, which invests in early-stage startups.
WASHINGTON (AP) — COVID-19 vaccine makers told Congress on Tuesday to expect a big jump in the delivery of doses over the coming month, and the companies insist they will be able to provide enough for most Americans to get inoculated by summer.
Having read the Wisconsin State Journal's front-page article on Monday, "Students call for more help," it is clear the current UW-Madison stud…
SpaceX has reportedly raised $850 million in a recent round of funding. This means that the company will now have a valuation of about $74 bil…
To deal with the state’s looming retirement crisis, Gov. Tony Evers and state Treasurer Sarah Godlewski think we need a new program called "Wi…
Many of the proposals, however, are not likely to remain intact when the Republican-led state Senate and Assembly begin writing their version of the budget.
The results could inform the commission’s policy decisions in the coming years, particularly on how to balance funding between solar and energy efficiency within Focus on Energy, the statewide energy savings program.
Two years after Republicans stripped out a proposal to accept federal dollars to expand Medicaid coverage in Wisconsin, Evers says he’ll again propose taking the funding in his budget as part of his broader mental and behavioral health plan.
Madison leaders have destroyed iconic State Street.
Supervisors approved a $4 million contract with the Dane Buy Local Foundation and and estimated $7.5 million contract with the Tenant Resource Center.
The city of Madison did not learn until late in 2020 that the federal government would be directly distributing aid for rental assistance, leaving little time for staff to develop a way to deploy the funding.
Thank you for the informative and timely State Journal article Jan. 4 "Highest rate in nation persists." It was about Wisconsin leading the na…
The campaign, announced Sept. 1, aimed to raise $1.5 million by Dec. 31. The center, which has been closed since mid-March due to the pandemic, received 2,200 donations totaling $2.2 million.
The funding would support architectural design, site development and capital fundraising ahead of the project’s estimated groundbreaking next year.Â
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Small businesses could receive grants of up to $50,000 through the program, which still requires approval from the County Board.
The proposed funding, announced Tuesday and subject to a vote by the Dane County Board, would add to the the Small Business Pandemic Support Grant Program.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other top Democrats are pushing for more federal funding for vaccine distribution as talks on a long-…
Under Trump there have been some rollbacks in civil rights protections for LGBTQ people that Biden is vowing to restore and expand. But that may prove complicated if Republican lawmakers and the Supreme Court, now with a solid conservative majority, endorse the arguments of religious conservatives that some of those protections infringe on religious liberty.
Wisconsin is facing an end-of-year deadline to use the federal money it was allocated under the CARES Act. Without an agreed-upon state solution to make up for it heading into 2021, officials are hoping for a congressional aid package.
