The 2025 Mississippi Blues Marathon will honor two of the state’s famous sons: B.B. King and Medgar Evers. Both men would ...

Video above: Civil rights activist Medgar Wiley Evers and King of the Blues, B.B. King were given a centennial celebration for all of their contributions to Mississippi.In honor of Black History Month ...

President's Day, celebrated on the third Monday of February, honors all U.S. presidents, particularly George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. Initially recognized as Washington's Birthday, the ...

On the civil rights front, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his “I Have A Dream” speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, and activist Medgar Evers was assassinated. Against this ...

Gov. Tony Evers will propose nearly $500 million in his budget to overhaul the state's prisons. The plan will include tearing down the 127-year-old Green Bay Correctional Institution and a massive ...

MADISON (WKOW) -- Gov. Tony Evers is pushing for prison reform in his 2025-27 biennial budget. The sweeping plan calls for closing Green Bay Correctional Institution, converting Lincoln Hills & Copper ...

Allouez and Waupun leaders welcomed Gov. Tony Evers' proposal to close or rebuild their communities' prisons, and a top Republican signaled Sunday he is open to working with the Democratic governor.

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Governor Tony Evers is proposing sweeping prison-system reforms as a part of his budget, including closing down one of the state’s oldest prisons, Green Bay Correctional ...

Tony Evers that proposes sweeping changes to the state’s troubled correctional system without building a new facility, as some lawmakers have long called for.Evers presented his plan as the best ...

Child care took center stage in Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' State of the State address this week. In his speech, he declared 2025 "the Year of the Kid." With lawmakers’ looking on and thousands ...

MADISON (WLUK) -- Later this week, Governor Tony Evers will unveil where he wants your tax dollars to go in the state's next two year budget. We already have a rough idea of what Governor Tony ...