Wisconsin Watch created a tool to show how counties and municipalities are spending millions intended to address the opioid crisis.

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a GOP-backed challenge to a decades-old campaign finance law that limits how much parties can spend in coordination with candidates for federal office.

Violent crime, nationally and in major cities, is lower than 25 years ago. Marquette University criminal justice professor Theodore Lentz charted rates for violent crime – murder, rape and sexual ...