The sales tax in Milwaukee will go up 2 cents per dollar next year after the Common Council voted Tuesday to raise the rate as part of a bipartisan plan to avoid bankruptcy. City leaders who pushed ...

MILWAUKEE - A plan to help Milwaukee avoid bankruptcy is headed for the governor's desk after the Legislature passed it Wednesday, June 14, but it comes at a cost, especially for the city's Fire & ...

MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - A federal judge on Monday approved a bankruptcy plan for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milwaukee that includes a $21 million settlement for 330 victims of sexual abuse by ...

Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, right at lecturn, is surrounded by fellow Republican lawmakers in the Assembly chamber, as he discusses details of a funding plan to save Milwaukee ...

City on A Hill, a faith-based organization, filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 5. The group marks its 25th anniversary in 2026. The nonprofit provides a variety of services for Milwaukee’s ...

Not reaching a deal on a massive bill increasing state aid to Wisconsin’s local governments will only increase the chances that Milwaukee runs out of money, forcing deep cuts to police and fire ...

Lawyers representing the Milwaukee archdiocese in bankruptcy proceedings indicated that they will continue to play hardball to protect some or all of more than $55 million that the archdiocese shifted ...

Not reaching a deal on a massive bill increasing state aid to Wisconsin's local governments will only increase the chances that Milwaukee runs out of money, forcing deep cuts to police and fire ...

Facing a string of lawsuits over its handling of sex abuse by clergy members, the Archdiocese of Milwaukee filed Tuesday for bankruptcy protection, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports. Archbishop ...

MILWAUKEE — A reorganization plan for Milwaukee’s Roman Catholic archdiocese that will distribute $21 million to hundreds of clergy sex abuse victims won approval Monday from a federal bankruptcy ...

This afternoon, the YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee announced that the United States Bankruptcy Court has approved its exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This afternoon, the YMCA of Metropolitan ...

MADISON (AP) -- Not reaching a deal on a massive bill increasing state aid to Wisconsin's local governments will only increase the chances that Milwaukee runs out of money, forcing deep cuts to police ...