State officials are weighing how a legal opinion requiring fire sprinklers in apartment buildings could affect how state agencies enforce and adopt new administrative rules.

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Because of a recent legal opinion from the state attorney general, shoreland property in towns may be subject to broader regulation.

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Although Democrats held on to a U.S. Senate seat and appeared to score a big victory in the governor's race, they were unable to seize outgoing House Speaker Paul Ryan's seat or send former U.S. Sen. Herb Kohl's nephew to Congress.

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Gov. Scott Walker faces the toughest battle of his political career. U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin is trying to fend off a no-holds-barred Republican challenger. And Democrats are trying to seize the congressional seat now held by House Speaker Paul Ryan, which has been under Republican control for 23 years, as well as reclaim the majority in the state Senate and retake the attorney general's office after more than a decade of GOP control.

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Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel has joined 18 other GOP attorneys general in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a ruling finding that Clean Water Act protections extend to non-point pollution.

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Labor unions and the Michels family of Michels Corp. renown were significant contributors to opposing attorney general candidates in August, according to recent campaign filings.

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Along with providing additional physical security, the state's second round of school-safety grants, totaling $45 million, will be used to set up school-safety intervention teams and to try to improve students' mental health, Attorney General Brad Schimel announced on Tuesday.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel is awarding the first school safety grant under a law Gov. Scott Walker signed in March.

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Gov. Scott Walker and other Republicans struck a cautionary tone at their state party convention on Saturday, warning that GOP policies enacted in the past eight years could be quickly undone with Democratic wins, a dour message for an annual meeting that usually serves as a pep rally heading into the campaign season.

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Attorney General Brad Schimel wants to give a share of new safety grants to every school that applies.

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