Wisconsin’s commitment to good roads and reliable transportation goes back more than a century and is built into our identity.

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A group of Republican lawmakers are raising concerns about likely cost overruns on the planned reconstruction of State Highway 23 between Fond du Lac and Sheboygan Counties.

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After a five-year absence, a commission that plots out some of Wisconsin's biggest highway projects will reconvene next week.

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State lawmakers unanimously confirmed five of Gov. Tony Evers' Cabinet secretaries on Tuesday but took no action on Evers' choice for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation.

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A commission called on to study some of Wisconsin's largest road projects may meet this winter for the first time in five years, a step that could lead to the addition of new highway projects to the state's to-do list.

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With his official appointment hanging in the balance, Gov. Tony Evers’ choice to lead WisDOT has released a letter defending the state’s policies on single-bid contracts.

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A Wisconsin Senate committee gave one of Gov. Tony Evers' most debated Cabinet picks unanimous bipartisan approval on Thursday, setting up a larger battle in the fall.

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Even as lawmakers inked a wide-ranging transportation plan and briefly considered prevailing wages and other divisive policies earlier this year, they found themselves being lobbied far less than in previous years by construction-industry groups.

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The Republican leader of the Wisconsin Senate called on Thursday for a veto override after Gov. Tony Evers' administration announced $75 million worth of transportation grants to make more money available for public-transportation projects like Milwaukee's streetcar.

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Wisconsin Republicans scrapped Gov. Tony Evers’ transportation budget Thursday and replaced it with a plan that would pay for road work using a combination of title- and registration-fee increases, an infusion of general tax dollars and new borrowing. The proposal also would allow the design-build delivery system to be tested out and make various other far-reaching changes to transportation policy.

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