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Wisconsin REALTORS® Association Releases December 2025 Real Estate Report Madison, Wis. – The Wisconsin REALTORS® Association released its December 2025 Real Estate Report today, showing Wisconsin’s housing market closed 2025 with moderate growth. December existing home sales rose 4.4% year over year, with the median price increasing 2.5% to $312,750. For the full year, sales...

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Wisconsin home sales saw “solid growth” of 4.4% in December, improving on what was already a strong performance a year ago.  That’s according to the latest Wisconsin Realtors Association report, which shows 5,446 homes were sold in the state last month, up from 5,215 in December 2024. The group notes that’s “especially impressive” as...

-- Wisconsin home sales saw “solid growth” of 4.4% in December, improving on what was already a strong performance a year ago.  That’s according to the latest Wisconsin Realtors Association report, which shows 5,446 homes were sold in the state last month, up from 5,215 in December 2024. The group notes that’s “especially impressive”...

MADISON – More than 300 farmers and agriculturists gathered at the Monona Terrace in Madison today for Ag Day at the Capitol. Ag Day at the Capitol is the largest advocacy day for Wisconsin farmers and agriculturists, bringing together a variety of farm groups to learn more about state issues affecting agriculture and meet...

MADISON -- After years of keeping pace with or outperforming the national economy, a new study from the MacIver Institute and the Center of the American Experiment Wisconsin has fallen to the bottom of the barrel over the last decade.The report, Accounting for Growth in Wisconsin: Performance and Prospects, reveals that since 2014, Wisconsin’s per-person economic output —...

Since taking office one year ago, Donald Trump and Congressional Republicans have waged an unrelenting war on American health care, sacrificing coverage and affordability for working families in order to fund tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations. They have put coverage at risk for over 15 million Americans by making the largest cuts to health care in...

The Affordable Care Act Open Enrollment Period Ended January 15, locking in higher premiums for millions of Americans this year unless the Senate acts Watch the full event here WISCONSIN – Today, U.S. Representative Mark Pocan and Wisconsin small business owner Kyle LaFond joined Protect Our Care Wisconsin and Main Street Alliance to...

Brookfield, WI – Wednesday, January 21, 2026 – The Elmbrook Education Foundation (EEF) is proud to accept a $2,000 donation from the Let’s Skate Foundation in support of the Unified Sports Program in Elmbrook Schools. This contribution supports EEF’s broader commitment to raise $75,000 to sustain and expand Unified Sports opportunities for students across the district. Unified Sports brings together students...

AB 840 would require the Public Service Commission to ensure that ratepayers are insulated from new utility costs linked to data centers and any renewable energy facilities principally serving the data center to be hosted on-site. 

OSHKOSH, Wis. (Jan. 21, 2026) — Demonstrating leadership in the travel industry, Fox World Travel, an award-winning, family-owned travel management company, is taking action to aid Jamaica’s recovery following the devastation of Hurricane Melissa. The company has pledged monetary support to the Government of Jamaica’s Support Jamaica – Official Disaster Relief & Recovery Portal and is working closely with the Jamaica Tourism Board and local tourism leaders to support the hardest-hit communities.  

Menomonie, Wis. – It was a year of big things at University of Wisconsin-Stout, from breaking ground for the biggest construction project in university history to posting some of the most notable enrollment growth in the Universities of Wisconsin to being chosen as Large Business of the Year. In 2025, Wisconsin’s Polytechnic University also...