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Gov. Tony Evers said Wednesday that his forthcoming budget won't call for replacing a century-old prison near Green Bay, an overcrowded structure that an area lawmaker calls the state's most dangerous.

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Much like his counterpart in Wisconsin, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is calling for a gas-tax increase to deal with a chronic shortfall in spending on roadwork, the governor said at an annual forum sponsored by The Associated Press.

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Gov. Tony Evers says Wisconsin will join a multistate lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's emergency declaration to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall if doing so "makes a difference."

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he expects he won't support a Republican tax-reduction bill passed with no Democratic votes.

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Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers says he is "confident" that Milwaukee will beat out Houston and Miami and win the contest to be host of the 2020 Democratic National Convention.

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Republican legislators are preparing to question two key members of Gov. Tony Evers' Cabinet as they weigh confirmation votes.

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State Department of Natural Resources officials plan to ask their board next week for permission to spend nearly $5 million to purchase an easement on 14,350 acres in Iron County.

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An appeals court has ruled that the town of Grand Chute didn't deflate a union's free-speech rights when it barred a giant blow-up rat from being displayed at a picket line at a construction site nearly five years ago.

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Republican lawmakers say a new study bolsters their position against Wisconsin accepting an expansion of the federal Medicaid program.

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Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul is condemning the emergency declaration President Donald Trump is trying to use to pay for a U.S.-Mexico border wall but isn't saying whether he'll join a multistate lawsuit challenging the declaration.

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