Gov. Scott Walker’s administration reversed itself Wednesday and no longer plans to roll back a requirement for fire sprinklers in many new apartment buildings. The state Department of Safety and Professional Services recently advanced plans to end a requirement that …
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Mary Burke disagree over whether to criminalize first-offense drunken driving. Wisconsin is the only state in the country where first-offense drunken driving is treated like a traffic offense, not a crime. Burke said …
Gov. Scott Walker got a firsthand look at damage caused by tornadoes that tore across southern Wisconsin. On Tuesday, Walker toured storm damage in Platteville and Verona. Wisconsin Public Radio reports Walker says it appears most of the owners of …
Six months after losing most of his left leg when a car pinned him against his garbage truck, Mark Friend said Monday seeing Gov. Scott Walker sign a new law doubling fines for traffic offenses around sanitation workers makes everything …
Gov. Scott Walker has dropped plans to remove mandatory fire safety requirements from the state electrical code. The Wisconsin Builders Association had suggested the change. Current code requires builders to install arc-fault and ground-fault circuit interrupter protection and tamper-resistant electrical …
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has signed a bill that prohibits workers from collecting damages in employment discrimination cases. Under current state law, employees who prevail in discrimination lawsuits can collect between $50,000 and $300,000 in compensatory and punitive damages. The …