Following The Badger Project's story noting it, the Richland Center Police Department and Richland County Sheriff stopped ...

The law enforcement agencies' minimum fees, experts say, contradict Wisconsin state law that states any charges for records ...

Experts say the new laws will strengthen emergency response across the state by funding more educational costs and increasing the payment EMS services get for treating but not transporting patients.

An investigation from The Badger Project found that Sheriff Walter Zuehlke had continued taking a monthly stipend for years ...

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Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania as ...

Wisconsin is one of many states to protect cops through a bill of rights, but it excludes state-employed police. Some lawmakers want to change that, while critics worry they are receiving special ...

A bill that would hike the penalty for impersonating a police officer in Wisconsin from a misdemeanor to a felony passed the state Assembly and now sits in the state Senate. Introduced by a handful of ...

Last year, 74 people died and about 5,500 were injured in car crashes in Milwaukee, according to the city’s Traffic Violence Dashboard. That’s a 45% increase in fatalities compared to 2014. A 2024 ...

A K9 officer for a police department in southeastern Wisconsin resigned in 2024 amid an internal investigation that began after his ex-girlfriend, herself a police officer in the area, alleged that he ...