Conflicting letters from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation have left Dane County officials wondering whether the state will rescind grant money for a long-planned trail project.

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The state Senate's mining committee approved a Republican bill Wednesday that would prohibit local governments from creating new sand mine regulations, but it's unclear whether the measure will go any further.

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Tensions between state regulators and a company that wants to bring an open pit iron mine to northern Wisconsin could be a signal of more conflict yet to come.

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Three Wisconsin lawmakers want to revisit the state's iron mining laws after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers declined the state's request to work with the state toward permits for Gogebic Taconite's potential mine near Mellen.

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A Republican bill that would scale back local sand mine regulations amounts to an unwarranted attack on small government and could put people who live around the operations at risk, the measure's opponents told lawmakers Thursday.

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In the age of 30-second attack ads that sell candidates no differently that laundry soap and cheeseburgers, most legislators surely felt they had no choice but to support a $100 million property tax cut approved last week.

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The Wisconsin Senate passed Gov. Scott Walker's $100 million property tax cut proposal Tuesday with bipartisan support, even though Democrats complained it was more a political ploy than anything that would truly help people's pocketbooks.

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It’s always funny to see lawmakers awkwardly trading jabs or even compliments while trying to keep things polite.

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Two northwestern Wisconsin state lawmakers are asking Gogebic Taconite to remove the armed guards it has employed to protect a proposed mining site.

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State lawmakers failed twice Wednesday to add union protections to bills that would let employers reduce workers’ hours without resorting to layoffs.

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