SCHOFIELD (WSAW) — After passing the state Senate, a bill to ban cell phone use in school districts across the state is headed to Governor Tony Evers. The bill would require school boards across the state to implement new cell phone policies. If signed by Gov. Evers, the policy would ban non-educational wireless devices like…
CHIPPEWA VALLEY — Throughout Wisconsin’s 421 school districts, roughly 70% have seen enrollment decline over the past several years. This comes according to data from the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty’s 2025 School Scorecard Dashboard. According to a Wisconsin Policy Forum report released in October 2023, enrollment counts back in the 2020-21 school year…
(The Center Square) – A bill that would require school boards across Wisconsin to create rules banning cell phones during instructional time took another step to becoming law when the Wisconsin Senate approved Assembly Bill 29 with a 29-4 vote. Sen. Rachael Cabral-Guevara, R-Fox Crossing, cited a Marquette poll that showed 89% support a cell…
It can be hard to know where to watch what you want to watch. Now, Spectrum is offering its customers a new way to simplify what can oftentimes feel like a complicated process. Thursday, Spectrum – the parent company of Spectrum News – unveiled its Spectrum App Store, a digital marketplace aimed at making it…
RACINE, WI — A Racine Unified School District (RUSD) Board of Education member is asking if the district should implement a cell phone-free policy. At Monday’s meeting, Board member Scott Coey issued a referral for a policy, and his request was approved for the governance committee. “I’m done waiting for the state to do its…
(The Center Square) – When Microsoft announced plans for an additional $4 billion data center in Kenosha County on Thursday morning, it came with comments from Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers and Milwaukee County Executive and governor candidate David Crowley about the benefits. But many of the usually benefits of a business entering the state –…
A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning while kayaking and left his wife and three children to meet a woman in the country of Georgia was convicted Tuesday of obstructing an officer and sentenced to 89 days in jail, which was the amount of time he successfully misled law enforcement about his whereabouts. The…
A federal judge has ordered Elon Musk to face a proposed class-action lawsuit from voters who say they were misled into signing a petition in the buildup to the 2024 election by promises of a chance to win $1 million in a daily giveaway. The lawsuit, brought in the U.S. District Court for the Western…
Flash flooding began to abate in parts of the Midwest on Monday, after heavy rainfall hit half a dozen states over the weekend. Inundation knocked out power to thousands, forced road closures and killed at least one person, officials said. The damage was particularly severe in the Milwaukee area, where recent flooding reached an unofficial…
Amelia SchaferICT LAC DU FLAMBEAU RESERVATION, Wisconsin – Adaawe Design Collective is pushing boundaries and combining fashion with advocacy and culture on the Lac Du Flambeau Reservation in northern Wisconsin. Adaawe, which refers to the Odawa tribe in Ojibwemowin, is run by Alexandria AnungoKwe Sulainis-Johnson, a Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi and Odawa artist, and her…