The funds states use to pay unemployment benefits are running low, raising fears of higher taxes on businesses and less money to help out-of-work employees during tight economic times.

A Wisconsin man and a gun-rights group are seeking to overturn a law that prohibits out-of-state residents from applying for a Georgia firearms license.

When Dick Myers heard that California was going to start issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, he and his partner of nearly 13 years considered traveling there to get married.

Wisconsin now has 10 confirmed cases of salmonella food poisoning believed to be linked to bacteria-tainted tomatoes, and the federal government has yet to pinpoint the source nearly three months since the outbreak began.

Every summer, Bob Klebba and David Waugh take a family beach vacation to San Diego. Besides fun and sun, this year's trip will have a little something extra: a wedding.

Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch's leadership role in Madison hasn't brought much to the 94th District, his Democratic challenger Cheryl Hancock said Tuesday.

Every last freeway lane and ramp in the Marquette Interchange will open for traffic on Aug. 30, roughly two months ahead of the schedule for a project that also will come in millions of dollars under budget, Gov. Jim Doyle said Tuesday.

Does agreeing to get naked with someone mean it is lawful for them to film you in the buff without your consent? That's the issue before the Wisconsin Court of Appeals in a case brought by a man convicted of secretly taping his girlfriend in the nude at her home.

It is still more common to see a classroom or sponsored faculty position at UW-Madison named for a person, or not at all. But rooms emblazoned with a brand name are becoming more noticeable on public university campuses, which increasingly rely on private gifts to fund public education.

North Dakota's economy had the highest growth rate in June compared with other Midwest states, according to Creighton University's Business Conditions Index.

A scholarship program that offers free college tuition as a reward for attending public schools in a Michigan city is catching on in other communities seeking to revitalize their urban centers.

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's landmark ruling overturning the city of Washington's ban on the individual possession of handguns could have broad implications for colleges and universities that bar students from having guns on campus.

(Updated 4 p.m. EDT, July 2, 2008)

For many states, 2008 will be remembered for record numbers of home foreclosures, $4-a-gallon gasoline and the beginning of a slide into new fiscal woes after two years of overflowing coffers.

Stateline.org’s annual state-by-state look at legislative accomplishments, covering 36 states so far, discerns the trends and precedents emerging from state capitals this year.

Motorists in southeastern Wisconsin pay an average of 14 cents more a gallon for gasoline billed as cleaner for the environment, but the government and air quality experts now question how much the gas actually cuts pollution.

While state legislators attack reformulated gas in southeastern Wisconsin for its cost and waning effectiveness, something else is brewing in gas pumps in the rest of the state that has the potential, if not a promise, to stir statewide controversy. It's all centered on ethanol.

Fewer women in Wisconsin had abortions for the fourth year in a row in 2007, the lowest recorded number since 1974, according to a recent state report.

Even with heavy rains and flooding this year, many Wisconsin farms will have corn that's knee high by the Fourth of July, according to a statewide crop report released Monday.

The state ended another fiscal year Monday without a payment for casino operations from the Ho-Chunk Nation, leading Wisconsin officials to say the tribe now owes close to $100 million.

Midwest flooding is taking its toll, but a government report Monday showed farmers planted more corn acres than had been expected this year, news that sent corn futures into a decline while assuring ethanol producers and others about supply.