A still image shows Tony Evers seated at the 'Here & Now' set featuring wood paneling, with a graphic at bottom reading 'Gov. Tony Evers' and '(D) Wisconsin.'

Politics

Gov. Tony Evers on signing Wisconsin’s 2025-27 state budget

Democratic Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers discusses the 2025-27 state budget deal with the Republican-controlled Legislature alongside a federal reconciliation bill and state Supreme Court rulings impacts.

July 11, 2025

Why two Wisconsin parents want to reform pharmacy benefits
Why two Wisconsin parents want to reform pharmacy benefits

Health

Why two Wisconsin parents want to reform pharmacy benefits

Rx Uncovered: The death of their son following an asthma attack spurred two Wisconsin parents to push for sweeping changes in how health insurance businesses provide and price life-saving medications.

July 10, 2025

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley on the courts, law and politics
Justice Ann Walsh Bradley on the courts, law and politics

Courts

Justice Ann Walsh Bradley on the courts, law and politics

Former Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley reflects on serving on the state's high court for 30 years and how growing influence of partisan politics has affected its work and influence.

July 9, 2025

An blurry person's legs walk in front of two rows of temporary voting booths with metal legs, plastic surfaces and cardboard privacy screens with a graphic of a U.S. flag and the word Vote on each face, in a room with closed double-doors on the rear wall and fluorescent lights in a drop-panel ceiling.
An blurry person's legs walk in front of two rows of temporary voting booths with metal legs, plastic surfaces and cardboard privacy screens with a graphic of a U.S. flag and the word Vote on each face, in a room with closed double-doors on the rear wall and fluorescent lights in a drop-panel ceiling.

Courts

Another lawsuit seeks to redraw Wisconsin’s congressional maps before 2026 midterms

A lawsuit filed by Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy challenges the state's congressional district maps, arguing they are unconstitutional due to anti-competitive gerrymandering — the lawsuit comes less than two weeks after the state Supreme Court refused to hear two similar cases.

July 9, 2025

A person writes with a pen in their right hand to fill out an absentee ballot envelope, with their left hand holding its corner, while standing at a counter with multiple clipboards with papers on its surface.
A person writes with a pen in their right hand to fill out an absentee ballot envelope, with their left hand holding its corner, while standing at a counter with multiple clipboards with papers on its surface.

Elections

Wisconsin Elections Commission concludes former Madison clerk who failed to count nearly 200 ballots broke state laws

An investigation by the Wisconsin Elections Commission has concluded that unlawful actions by Madison's former city clerk led to nearly 200 absentee ballots going uncounted in the 2024 presidential election.

July 9, 2025

Bill Berrien gestures with both hands while standing outdoors, with an out-of-focus tree line in the background.
Bill Berrien gestures with both hands while standing outdoors, with an out-of-focus tree line in the background.

Elections

New Berlin businessman Bill Berrien enters the 2026 race for governor of Wisconsin

Bill Berrien, a New Berlin businessman and former Navy SEAL, has entered Wisconsin's 2026 governor's race, announcing his candidacy on July 9 to promote a "Wisconsin First" agenda and aligning himself with President Donald Trump.

July 9, 2025

Tara Roberts-Turner on tribal food resources and community
Tara Roberts-Turner on tribal food resources and community

Indigenous

Tara Roberts-Turner on tribal food resources and community

Wisconsin Food Hub Cooperative Board President Tara Roberts-Turner describes how the Tribal Elder Food Box program supports Indigenous community connections through collaboration among tribal nations.

July 8, 2025

From left to right, Jill Karofsky, Rebecca Dallet, Ann Walsh Bradley, Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley, Brian Hagedorn and Janet Protasiewicz sit in high-backed leather chairs at a judicial dais, with another row of high-backed wood and leather chairs behind them, in a room with marble masonry and a Wisconsin flag.
From left to right, Jill Karofsky, Rebecca Dallet, Ann Walsh Bradley, Annette Ziegler, Rebecca Bradley, Brian Hagedorn and Janet Protasiewicz sit in high-backed leather chairs at a judicial dais, with another row of high-backed wood and leather chairs behind them, in a room with marble masonry and a Wisconsin flag.

Courts

Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling finds legislative committee overreached authority conversion therapy ban case

The Wisconsin Supreme Court that a legislative committee's rejection of a state agency rule that would ban the practice of conversion therapy for LGBTQ+ people was unconstitutional, reducing the power of the Legislature to block enactment of administrative rules by the governor's office.

July 8, 2025

Sunlight illuminates and casts shadows on a multi-story Richardsonian Romanesque-style masonry building with multiple turrets, gables and a central tower, with two U.S. flags flying at half staff on flagpoles next to leafless trees at its central entrance and with other buildings behind it.
Sunlight illuminates and casts shadows on a multi-story Richardsonian Romanesque-style masonry building with multiple turrets, gables and a central tower, with two U.S. flags flying at half staff on flagpoles next to leafless trees at its central entrance and with other buildings behind it.

Courts

Federal magistrate judge recommends that case against Dugan can proceed

A federal magistrate judge has recommended that charges proceed against Milwaukee Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan, who was indicted on allegations that she helped a man evade U.S. immigration agents inside the county courthouse.

July 8, 2025

Jess D'Souza holds and open bag of feed while standing on dirt among multiple pigs of different sizes in a fenced-in area, with other fences and foliage in the background.
Jess D'Souza holds and open bag of feed while standing on dirt among multiple pigs of different sizes in a fenced-in area, with other fences and foliage in the background.

Agriculture

A Wisconsin pig farmer reimagines future options as a USDA program is canceled

The Trump administration's cancellation of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Local Food Purchase Assistance program upends plans for Jess D'Souza, a small-scale farmer in southern Wisconsin who had hoped to finally turn a profit.

July 7, 2025 • South Central Region