Lawmakers aired out a proposal on Wednesday to help Green Bay move coal piles from a riverfront site where they've sat for more than a century and make way for new development.

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State lawmakers are trying with a pair of bills introduced this week to compel school districts and child-care centers throughout the state to test and repair infrastructure made of lead.

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Milwaukee officials are hoping to see bipartisan support in the state Legislature for several proposed bills that would help homeowners replace lead water-service lines under their properties.

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The Wisconsin Assembly is set to vote on a bill that would allow wastewater plants and businesses to push off complying with the state's phosphorus reduction rules for 20 years.

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The law hardly could be clearer or more unequivocal: Wisconsin state statute 16.705(8) requires the state Department of Administration to file a report by Oct. 15 of each year regarding the hiring of outside contractors to perform services for state agencies.

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A proposal to move the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions to an office building in Middleton is being decried by state and local officials as a needless expense and contrary to a state policy that urges keeping agencies in central Madison.

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The author of a bill that would eliminate a cost analysis of state highway project engineer work has given up hope her proposal can be revived prior to the end of the Legislature’s current session Thurday.

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A bill that would eliminate the need for the state to conduct a cost comparison of highway project engineering work took an unexpected turn in the Senate Tuesday evening.

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By James Briggs State lawmakers have asked the Department of Natural Resources to save money on a proposed storage building slated to be built in the Pershing Wildlife Area in Taylor County. There’s nothing special about the building — a ...

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By James Briggs A proposed bill floating through the Legislature would let cities team up on tax incentives for development projects. The bill, co-authored by a pair of Green Bay Republicans, Rep. Chad Weininger and Sen. Robert Cowles, would let ...

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