The Polk County Democrats Steering Committee has decided to ban all local media, including the Inter-County Leader, from its meetings. In an email sent late morning on Saturday, March 1, the Polk County Democrats announced their decision.
Milwaukee County’s Chief Medical Examiner will no longer allow timely access to preliminary reports on deaths such as homicides, fatal car accidents and other causes, according to a March 4, 2025 story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
For the 19th consecutive year, the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is bestowing its annual Openness in Government Awards, or Opees, meant to recognize outstanding efforts to protect the state’s tradition of open government, as well as highlight impediments.
As the Marinette City Council weighed legal options stemming from a court ruling finding in favor of a plaintiff, the city’s mayor said Marinette has spent $240,000 on the 2020 Open Meetings lawsuit.
NNA members are encouraged to contract their members of Congress to counteract reports that President Donald Trump will impose a 25% tariff on imports from Canada on March 4, 2025.
The publisher of The Lakeland Times has filed a second lawsuit against the owner of Minocqua Brewing Company, according to a Feb. 24, 2025 story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel by reporter Mary Spicuzza.
The Marinette City Council violated the state’s Open Meeting Law with two closed sessions in 2020 discussing PFAS issues, a state appeals court ruled Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. The violations were detailed in a Feb. 21 story in the Marinette EagleHerald by senior reporter Dan Kitkowski.
Early-career journalists worldwide can apply for a Tarbell Fellowship that awards stipends up to $50,000.
The API Local News Summit on Local Identity, History and Sustainability summit will gather approximately 60 media leaders and non-journalism experts in Nashville on April 8-9.
A recall petition circulated by a Wrightstown School Board member against the board president has just more than 1,200 signatures, enough to force a recall election, if the petition and signatures are certified.
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