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The Wisconsin Department of Revenue is using this tax season to recommend people protect themselves with an Identity Protection PIN. This PIN will be used to file your 2021 individual income tax return and homestead credit claims.

A commercial poultry flock in Jefferson County has tested positive for highly pathogenic avian flu (HPAI). The announcement was released on Monday by the Wisconsin DATCP.

It’s Wisconsin’s first confirmed case of HPAI since 2015, according to the DATCP.

A Wisconsin department has finished compiling its top list of consumer complaints from last year, and telemarketing appears to have caused the most ire.

Customers who were impacted by the T-Mobile’s data breach in August 2021 are encouraged to take extra steps to protect their personal information.

The message comes from the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Attorney General Josh Kaul.

Wisconsin State Patrol is turning the spotlight on work zone safety.

Construction will begin once warmer months arise, and that means motorists need to watch for work crews and equipment.

Democratic Gov. Tony Evers isn’t asking for the measures and very well may veto them if they make it to his desk. But Republicans in the Legislature are still working on a host of workforce measures, which aim to ease the labor shortage by limiting access to government programs.

With new projections that the state’s bottom line will grow by $2.9 billion over the current two-year budget, Wisconsin lawmakers from both parties are debating how to utilize this newfound windfall.

Principals and superintendents turn over in Wisconsin public schools and districts at about the national average, state data show, but turnover is most prevalent for those serving the state’s most vulnerable students. For now, at least, a feared pandemic-related surge in school leadership turnover has not yet emerged.

Groups and governmental bodies from across Wisconsin are invited to apply for an AARP 2022 Community Challenge Grant.

Grants fund projects related to public spaces, transportation, housing, civic engagement, diversity and including and COVID-19 recovery, for example. Projects must be focus on improving your local community.

As the populations at Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake have declined, Wisconsin counties are seeking alternatives to sending youths to the troubled juvenile prisons as their per-inmate costs to house them there have more than tripled.