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The state Department of Natural Resources board is poised to move forward on extensive rewrites of Wisconsin's water-pollution regulations in a step that could cost well-users, farmers and wastewater treatment plants millions of dollars.

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Homeless, Lonisha Jordan and her sons, 10 and 12, sleep in their car, motels or other places, each day struggling with circumstances that continue to shut out many in Madison and Dane County.

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A bill that would put more money into a grant program for apprentices will be up for a vote before a state senate committee next week.

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Wisconsin's unemployment rate ticked up for the fourth straight month and is up nearly half a point since May.

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Gov. Tony Evers has set up a task force to develop strategies to deal with climate change in the state.

The Michigan Department of Transportation gave the gravel industry considerable influence in a state-funded study that found looming shortages in materials used to build highways, possibly undermining the report's credibility and wasting taxpayers' money, auditors said Friday.

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In their 2020 proposed budget, Madison officials are a calling for spending less on capital projects than they did last year. A number of big jobs are being put off indefinitely.

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Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele announced Wednesday that he will not seek re-election in April.

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The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to hear a case brought by a conservative law firm seeking to scale back governors' ability to use partial budget vetoes to change the intent of legislators.

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Bucky could get spiffier digs under a plan lawmakers approved on Wednesday. The Wisconsin State Building Commission signed off on a proposed $77.6 million overhaul of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Camp Randall Stadium during a meeting at the state Capitol on Wednesday.

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