Rep. Tom Tiffany, the incumbent Republican, has raised about $1.2 million. Right-wing billionaires like the Uihleins, Diane ...

State law doesn't prohibit a person from running in a district where they don't live, but they must move there before ...

Voter fraud is rare, in Wisconsin and nationally, but many checks exist to prevent and catch it, whether it be accidental or ...

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 ...

A Democratic candidate for state Senate pleaded no contest to two misdemeanors nearly 20 years ago for writing several bad checks to Walmart. Michael Rapp, now living in unincorporated Van Dyne in ...

More than $1.1 million. With weeks still to go in the campaign, that’s the investment the Democratic Party of Wisconsin already has dropped into one little state Assembly district in western Wisconsin ...

Farewell, Frontier internet and phone service. Last month, Verizon Communications announced plans to buy the, to put it mildly, widely-disliked company and its thousands of miles of copper and fiber ...

An investigation by The Badger Project discovered the names of three Wisconsin police officers among the 38,000 on the leaked list.

When politicians and PACs break campaign finance law, regulators enforce penalties. The Badger Project requested every settlement in the history of the regulatory body, the Wisconsin Ethics Commission ...

The April election could alter the gender makeup of the court. Research suggests the addition of female justices has little effect on court rulings, with one notable exception.

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