Jon Richards

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed rejection of a federally funded expansion of state health programs would add some $50 million in costs to state taxpayers over the next two years, according to the Legislature's nonpartisan budget office. The new report from...

Following a furor among lawmakers over the University of Wisconsin System's sizable financial reserves, Gov. Scott Walker on Wednesday recommended freezing tuition and scaling back his proposed budget increase for state universities and colleges by $94...

The Legislature's budget committee made major cuts and changes to Wisconsin's land conservation program Wednesday after Republicans on the panel expressed worries about its long-term cost. The Joint Finance Committee voted 12-4 on a party-line vote to...

Sweeping aside a 75-year-old City of Milwaukee residency ordinance and others like it, Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee voted Thursday to allow police and firefighters to live at least 15 miles outside of any community in the state and...

The Republican-dominated Joint Finance Committee tweaked Gov. Scott Walker's plan to end residency rules statewide on Thursday, opting for a distance-based rule governing police officers, firefighters or other emergency personnel. A motion by Rep....

The Legislature's budget committee Thursday held up $63 million in state money for Wisconsin's troubled jobs agency over the next two years and piled new oversight on it, voting hours after lawmakers on a separate audit panel directed their bipartisan ire...

From a repeal of residency rules for local police to softening regulation of rent-to-own stores in Wisconsin, key GOP lawmakers for now are keeping dozens of items in the state budget that don't belong there, according to their nonpartisan budget office....