Wisconsin Watch created a tool to show how counties and municipalities are spending millions intended to address the opioid crisis.

Violent crime, nationally and in major cities, is lower than 25 years ago. Marquette University criminal justice professor Theodore Lentz charted rates for violent crime – murder, rape and sexual ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a GOP-backed challenge to a decades-old campaign finance law that limits how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal office.

Three years into disbursements, strategies vary — and so does transparency. Some governments submitted required reports only ...

The Federal Student Aid website confirms that unauthorized students — including DACA recipients — are ineligible for federal student aid. However, it notes that unauthorized immigrants can still seek ...

Michael Adams wants Black men to take care of themselves by listening to their instincts and trusting the health care system.

There has been broad agreement about the greenhouse effect for over a century. In 1824, Joseph Fourier calculated that Earth ought to be much colder given its distance from the sun, and theorized that ...

Homeless service providers rally together as federal funding cuts loom and the governor’s $24 million proposal gets cut.

Yes. A quarter of the ad minutes that ran during the evening news in the first five months of this year were from pharmaceutical companies.

Five months later, Washington’s whirlwind is still churning — whether it’s the dismantling of the Department of Education, canceled or frozen grants, tax cuts that disproportionately benefit the rich ...

Isolation and health problems are among the complex factors driving older adult suicides, while possible solutions include senior-centered community organizations, improving Medicare mental health ...

Workforce Pell grants will pay for short-term workforce training for low-income students. Here’s what that means for Wisconsin.