The Johnson Creek Police Department stopped employing Peter Chin in June, about a month after his drunk driving arrest. The ...

Former Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Mertzig was investigated in 2022 amid accusations from his landlords that he ...

Alcohol is a common factor in the rising number of off-road vehicle crashes and fatalities reported in Wisconsin. Legislators ...

The city of Madison sued a state legislator last year after he went more than 18 months without paying an ambulance bill. It has now been more than two and a half years and the bill is still ...

The Badger Project is a nonprofit funded mainly through reader donations and grants from foundations. While the vast majority of our major funders are listed here, in rare circumstances, we do accept ...

Peter is an award-winning investigative journalist. Before returning to Wisconsin to launch The Badger Project in 2018, he worked at daily newspapers in Scranton and Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania, as ...

The Risser Justice Center in Madison that houses the Wisconsin Department of Justice. Photo: Peter Cameron. The Badger Project is suing the Wisconsin Department of Justice for the names and work ...

The Badger Project is suing St. Croix County after it refused to release documents detailing an investigation into one of its sheriff’s deputies. In 2021, Deputy Amanda Alberts resigned from the St.

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