Alaska State Troopers report that a Wisconsin man drowned while out on a sport-fishing charter boat in Juneau on Sunday and another was injured in the rescue attempt. Wildlife troopers were notified at noon on Sunday that CPR was being performed on Theodore Short of Osseo, Wisconsin after he was pulled from the water in […]
“But for the theft of Indigenous lands,” said environmental activist and attorney Steven Donziger, “this pipeline would not even exist.” The Canadian oil company Enbridge has been ordered to pay the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa $5 million in damages for trespassing and to gradually shut down part of its Line 5 […]
“It is incredibly racist to brag about lowering Black and Brown turnout, it is also unacceptable to have these comments and views held by an election official,” said one advocacy group. Voting rights advocates in Wisconsin on Thursday called on a far-right conspiracy theorist and member of the state’s election authority to resign following revelations […]
The ruling solidified the court’s status as “the most rogue and vehemently antidemocratic state court in the nation,” said one critic. Political observers on Friday were alarmed by a Wisconsin Supreme Court ruling restricting the use of drop boxes for absentee election ballots—not just because the decision will make it harder for many residents to vote, […]