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With Milwaukee’s popular Summerfest and Chicago’s Pitchfork both canceled due to coronavirus, many are still questioning if Lollapalooza will go on. Organizers and city officials have been teasing a decision for weeks, even saying an announcement was expected last week. “I expect that we’ll be making a decision sometime next week,” Lightfoot said during a news briefing on May...

The popular Milwaukee music festival Summerfest has been canceled due to coronavirus, organizers announced Thursday. The event, which typically takes place in July, had already been postponed to September due to concerns over the virus. “After careful, diligent, and thoughtful consideration and out of an abundance of caution for the health and safety of our community – including artists, fans,…

The 2020 Wisconsin State Fair has been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, organizers announced Thursday.

A federal judge is signaling he won’t postpone or make any major changes to Wisconsin’s spring election to alleviate concerns about voters and poll workers contracting the coronavirus.

A nurse with Downers Grove- and Milwaukee-based Advocate Aurora Health has issued a public apology for not wearing a face mask after she was interviewed by a news crew at a Milwaukee-area bar. Katie Koutski was interviewed by NBC affiliate WTMJ Wednesday night at Limanski’s Pub – one of the bars that opened just hours after the Wisconsin Supreme Court…

A recent ruling by the Wisconsin Supreme Court may tempt people from Illinois to cross the border, but a closer look at the data suggests not so far. NBC 5’s Phil Rogers reports.

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is warning of “massive confusion” after the state Supreme Court tossed out the Democrat’s stay-at-home order and Republicans said they may leave it up to local governments to enact their own rules for combating the coronavirus pandemic

Wisconsin began reopening after the state’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled the governor’s “safer at home” order was invalid. What’s next for the state? NBC 5’s Sandra Torres reports. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has struck down Gov. Tony Evers’ stay-at-home restrictions.

A Republican endorsed by President Donald Trump has easily won a special congressional election in a heavily conservative rural Wisconsin district.

Gov. Tony Evers on Monday allowed nearly all nonessential retail stores to reopen as long as they serve no more than five customers at a time, partially lifting the restriction that has kept them closed for weeks to slow the spread of the coronavirus. The latest order, which took effect immediately, addresses criticism from smaller stores and Republican lawmakers that…

Sixteen and 17-year-olds in Wisconsin won’t have to take a road test in order to receive their driver’s license under a new pilot program announced by the state’s Department of Transportation on Tuesday. The move is designed to address a backlog in young drivers trying to get their driver’s license and to limit in-person visits to testing sites across...

More than 50 people who voted in person or worked the polls during Wisconsin’s election earlier this month have tested positive for COVID-19 so far.

Dog groomers, upholsterers, lawnmower repair shops and other nonessential businesses that can offer contactless services will be allowed to reopen in Wisconsin, the latest loosening of a stay-at-home order designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, Gov. Tony Evers announced Monday. Starting Wednesday, outdoor recreational rental businesses, such as boats, golf carts and kayaks, can also reopen, along with…

Some Midwest states are preparing to lift their orders in early May. Meanwhile, Wisconsin extended its order until May 26. Gov. J.B. Pritzker has indicated a decision is coming on whether or not the state’s stay-at-home order will be extended.

When Wisconsin voters had to brave the coronavirus pandemic to vote in their state’s April 7 election, it was the latest phase of a nearly 60-year legal and political fight over who can vote in the U.S. Wearing masks and gloves, Wisconsin residents who voted in person were met by election officials in similar attire. That was new. But it wasn’t new...

Old-fashioned needles with dull points haunted Dale Wheelock for decades. When he was 5 years old in 1948 to 1949, Wheelock came down with polio, a highly infectious disease caused by a virus that invades the nervous system. He likely had a fever, aching joints and some paralysis of the legs, all telltale signs of the scourge that preyed on…

Clerks across Wisconsin will count votes Monday, six days after last week’s chaotic presidential primary.

An estimated 5,000 voters cast their ballots at one of five polling places open in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with some waiting hours to vote and others turned away at the polls.

Voters lined up to cast ballots across Wisconsin on Tuesday, ignoring a stay-at-home order in the midst of a pandemic to participate in the state’s presidential primary election.