Ethan Robert of Eisenhower Middle School in New Berlin and Arnav Vempati of Kromrey Elementary School in Middleton advanced to the Scripps National Spelling Bee May 26-28.
- JOHN HART, STATE JOURNAL
Wisconsin's top grade school and middle school spellers vie for a chance to represent the state in the Scripp's National Spelling Bee in Washington D.C. during competition at the Mitby Theater in Madison Saturday.
Would it be Wisconsin without a Saturday tailgate? The 52 spellers competing in the 2026 Badger State Spelling Bee at Madison College’s Mitby Theater were invited to bring their families and join community supporters at a tailgate ahead of the 1 p.m. spelling bee.
Fifty-two champion spellers from Wisconsin’s public and private schools will be competing on Saturday in the annual Badger State Spelling Bee.
- KIMBERLY WETHAL
The state budget provides school districts with an increase of $504.7 million more for special education funding over the previous budget.
Hunting is a time-honored Montana tradition, but poachers are costing Montanans money and our natural resources.
- CHRIS RICKERT
Federal Impact Aid is allotted to school districts that include large amounts of tax-exempt, federally owned land and that educate large numbers of “federally connected” children.
Dorota Grejner-Brzezinska last September stepped into the top UW-Madison research role with big plans.
UW-Madison would be part of “dual-use” defense research — some of which is already happening on campus.
The Jefferson County case was tossed in 2021 but then revived after the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling that banned considering race in college admissions.
DPI plans to launch a streamlined database of all revoked and surrendered educator licenses and is exploring ways to make additional information public, Underly said.
While a court order relieved some pressures for college campus food pantries, student demand isn’t slowing.
UW-Eau Claire College Republicans face backlash for Halloween costumes depicting ICE agent making an arrest, labeled as racist and distasteful.
24 districts in the study have largely reverted to compensation systems that only consider how many years of experience and what degrees a teacher has.
Plans are in the works to raise $4 million for a museum, community room and offices at the memorial that opened in 2021.
The memorials in New York, Arlington, Virginia, and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, each provide their own story about the events of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Memorable images from his coaching, athletic director stretches at Wisconsin.
Bucky Badger wasn't always Bucky. And he wasn't always huggable, either. Scroll on for a history in photographs of one of the best mascots in college athletics.
When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, Wisconsin played a starring role in the effort: it was the first state to ratify the measure on June 10, 1919. The last of the required 36 states ratified it on Aug. 18, 1920.
When the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was ratified in 1920, Wisconsin played a starring role in the effort: it was the first state to ratify the measure on June 10, 1919. The last of the required 36 states ratified it on Aug. 18, 1920.
They worked to get people out of the north tower as debris and bodies rained down. Then, they heard the groaning of steel.
It said "user fees" passed on to consumers by the Biden administration were in excess of what was needed to run the federal exchange.
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Like cities and towns big and small, Kenosha and Kenosha County have their share of unsolved murders and cold cases.
Check out the inside of the Macon County Jail through photos from the Herald & Review archives. More archive photos at herald-review.com.
On March 6, 2015, Madison police officer Matt Kenny, who is white, shot and killed 19-year-old Tony Robinson, a black man, after an altercation at a home on Williamson Street. Robinson's death sparked weeks of demonstrations. Kenny was cleared of any wrongdoing by Dane County District Attorn…
As reported by Jesse Lin of the Green Bay Press-Gazette, "Wisconsin's Joint Legislative Audit Committee on Aug. 25 unanimously voted to audit money given by state agencies to shuttered anti-poverty nonprofit Newcap and WISCAP, the larger family of anti-poverty agencies in the state." In an A…
During a special meeting, the Wisconsin Elections Commission discussed a proposed letter directing the Milwaukee Election Commission to take a series of actions, including making public the audit logs of each tabulator used at central count to show no unauthorized activity occurred relating …
On this episode of WisconsinEye's Rewind: Your Week in Review, WPR Capitol Reporter Anya van Wagtendonk and WisPolitics-State Affairs Editor JR Ross discuss how the U.S. Supreme Court paved the way for an executive order by President Donald Trump to move forward that would establish a list o…
The Study Committee on District Attorney Funding Formula convened to discuss the state’s weighted caseload formula, which helps determine staff allocations for district attorney offices. Members will consider whether the formula accurately reflects the workload of these offices and whether c…