Shawn Johnson

Part of the University of Wisconsin budget approved last night would make it harder for the UW student group United Council to collect dues.

Members of both parties approved a budget plan that would freeze tuition at the University of Wisconsin and cut state aid to the university system.

The Joint Finance Committee voted last night against a plan to exempt the rent-to-own industry from Wisconsin's Consumer Act.

Wisconsin's transportation fund would be left with just a $5 million balance under a plan approved by the Joint Finance Committee last night.

The Joint Finance Committee approved a plan last night to make people arrested for alleged felonies and sexual assault subject to DNA sampling.

The Joint Finance Committee rejected a plan to spend $3 million to track people on domestic violence restraining orders using GPS technology.

  Critics of the rent-to-own industry made a last-minute plea today to kill a plan that would make it exempt from consumer protection laws.

The legislature's budget committee is scheduled to vote today a plan that would let police collect DNA samples from people when they're arrested.

    Democrats and voucher school opponents say they've collected nearly 17,000 signatures from people opposed to voucher school expansion. 

  Republicans on the Joint Finance Committee approved a plan last night making it harder to challenge applications for high capacity wells.