Waukesha County’s proposed sales tax is dead, and the county’s business community is happy to see it go. Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow told county leaders this week he is scuttling his proposed half-percent sales tax.
Waukesha County began serious consideration of a sales tax. Now the county will remain one of only two in the state without one.
Susan Crawford and Brad Schimel bring their political histories — and partisan backers —to the race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court.
Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow on Tuesday announced the sales tax ordinance introduced in October of 2024 is officially dead. The tax was proposed to help pay
Hartland Bus Driver Walter Cunningham is now charged with 28 felony charges of second degree recklessly endangering safety after allegedly operating while intoxicated. The charges
Just over thre months after its introduction, a proposal that would have added a 0.5% sales tax in Waukesha County is now off the table. County
Conservative candidate Brad Schimel refuses to criticize the president for freeing rioters who assaulted law enforcement officers.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said there have been at least five vehicles that have fallen through ice in Waukesha and Racine counties so far this year. The Waukesha County Sheriff's Department said a 61-year-old man died after he fell through the ice on Pewaukee Lake on Saturday afternoon, Jan. 25.
A recent Waukesha County Drug Task Force investigation resulted in the seizure of guns, drugs, cash and more in Milwaukee County.
Both campaigns are trying to use the issue to define Brad Schimel, the former Republican attorney general and a current Waukesha County judge.
Prosecutors said two men concocted the plan while they were both inmates at the Waukesha County Jail last year.
One of the most outspoken officers who defended the U.S. Capitol against rioters on Jan. 6, 2021, is emphasizing President Donald Trump's pardons in Wisconsin's high profile Supreme Court race.