Following the Waukesha School Board decision on Nov. 12 to close Bethesda, Hawthorne and the former Whittier elementary schools, one school board member — who sent an email disputing media reporting that the decision was final — is being threatened with possible censure.
Town of Pepin board supervisors illegally disbanded a citizen study group at their July 2025 meeting, according to a Nov. 17 complaint filed with the Pepin County District Attorney by five town residents. The complaint lays out two violations of Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law.
Democrats in the Wisconsin State Legislature recently announced a bill that would have helped any member of the public avoid the punishing legal fees from a strategic lawsuit against public participation, or SLAPP, case.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association and WNA Foundation are pleased to announce its 2026 Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame inductees.
Adams MultiMedia, a Minnesota-based company, is purchasing The Cedar Rapids Gazette and 11 community newspaper titles, the companies announced jointly this morning.
The Wisconsin Newspaper Association needs your help with an important initiative that will benefit YOUR NEWSPAPER by Wednesday, December 17th, 2025.
The Grafton Village Board on Monday Nov. 10 trimmed the list of candidates to become the village’s next administrator to four during a closed session but refused to release the names of the finalists despite a written request from the Ozaukee Press.
Former reporter and UW-Whitewater newspaper advisor Sam Martino, newspaper publisher Carlton DeWitt and former newspaper managing editor and current Wisconsin Newspaper Association Foundation President Scott Peterson have been selected for induction as the Wisconsin Newspaper Hall of Fame’s Class of 2026.
Jefferson County Circuit Court Judge William V. Gruber has ruled that Town of Palmyra Board members violated Wisconsin’s Open Meetings Law on five occasions in 2023, in a case brought by local resident and former board member Weenonah Brattset.
A rural Kansas county agreed to pay a little more than $3 million and apologize over a law enforcement raid on a small-town weekly newspaper in August 2023 that sparked an outcry over press freedom.