It’s bounce season in Wisconsin. No, not the jump-around tradition at a Wisconsin Badgers football game. Here, we’re talking about cherry bounce: hard liquor, often brandy, with a load of fresh cherries soaking in it. Bounce is a strong tradition in parts of Wisconsin, particularly the Door Peninsula, that thumb that juts out into Lake…

Two freelance photographers have filed a federal lawsuit against police in Kenosha, Wisconsin, alleging that they were unlawfully shot with rubber bullets during a protest over police racism in 2020. The lawsuits were filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin on July 4 by photographers Alyssa Schukar and Scott Olson who claim their civil…

CRANDON, Wis.—State officials are investigating how eight people became trapped upside down on a roller coaster—some of them for more than three hours—at a festival in Wisconsin. The roller coaster’s cars got stuck near the top of a loop around 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the Crandon International Offroad Raceway. Rescue workers arrived to find eight…

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers partially vetoed the new state budget on July 5, allowing for increased funding for public schools for the next four centuries. The Democratic governor, who is himself a former state education secretary and teacher, signed off on the two-year $99 billion spending plan after making a number of amendments—51 partial vetoes in…

A diver has created an unlikely bond with a wild fish and the pair “meet” every summer at the same spot. Rex Colubra, 40, made friends with the freshwater smallmouth bass while on a dive in September 2021. The bizarre encounter ended with the pair becoming friends and Mr. Colubra even named the fish Elvis….

While Democrats were still celebrating the success of their parliamentary move to keep embattled Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) Administrator Meagan Wolfe on the job, the GOP-controlled Senate did some maneuvering of its own to get rid of her. The had WEC called a special meeting for June 27 for the sole purpose of reappointing Wolfe…

The strategic abstentions of the three Democrats on the Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) resulted in the failure of a motion to reappoint embattled WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe to a second four-year term. Wolfe has been the highest-ranking state elections official since 2018. She has drawn criticism for her administering of the 2020 presidential and 2022…

SHOALS, Ind.—A tornado struck a home, killing one occupant and injuring another as severe weather hit parts of Indiana, Tennessee, and other states, an official said. The tornado that struck the home Sunday evening was part of a storm system that pushed through Martin County, Indiana, WXIN-TV reported. A tornado also touched down Sunday afternoon…

MADISON, Wis.— Republican lawmakers voted to cut the University of Wisconsin (UW) System’s budget by $32 million on Thursday despite a projected record-high $7 billion state budget surplus, leaving the university nearly half a billion dollars short of what it requested. The cut comes in reaction to Republican anger over diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)…

Embattled Election Administrator Meagan Wolfe is up for reappointment by the six-member bipartisan Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC). But her chances of getting her second four-year term look increasingly bleak, according to some GOP lawmakers. Serving in state government since 2011, Wolfe was unanimously approved as the state’s highest ranking election-officer by the Wisconsin State Senate…