A former state trooper was "terminated for cause” in 2020, but has continued to work in law enforcement. The Badger Project ...

A deputy resigned from the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office before it concluded an investigation into her conduct. The ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a GOP-backed challenge to a decades-old campaign finance law that limits how much ...

With the total number of law enforcement officers in Wisconsin sitting near record lows, the bill aims to ease staffing shortages with grants to help pay for the training of new hires. But it faces an ...

A handful of legislative Democrats supported the Wisconsin State Budget. In exchange, they got funding bumps to the UWs, public schools and child care, angering some on the left who wanted more.

Ted Gregory senior editor Ted is a former general assignment reporter at the Chicago Tribune who, as part of a team of six reporters, won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He also ...

The Badger Project is a nonprofit funded mainly through reader contributions and grants. In March 2020, we received a matching grant of $7,713 from NewsMatch 2019 in coordination with our ...

Wandering officers, problem police who get fired or forced out from one department, then go work at another, are a problem across the country. To help prevent these officers from bouncing between ...

After decades of delivering babies in the small Wisconsin town of Waupaca, Thedacare-Froedtert Health shuttered the OB-GYN unit last month. What’s best for healthcare systems is not always best for ...

The primary election for Waupaca County Sheriff is more than a year away, but accusations between the incumbent and his presumptive challenger are flying. Former Waupaca County Sheriff’s deputy Justin ...