Wisconsin
Siku, Lincoln Park Zoo polar bear, is moving to Madison, Wisconsin
A polar bear from the Lincoln Park Zoo is turning into a badger.
No, the zoo has not mastered shapeshifting. Siku, a 15-year-old male polar bear, is moving in the coming weeks to Madison, Wisconsin — home, of course, of the University of Wisconsin Badgers.
Siku is being transferred to the Henry Vilas Zoo in Madison as part of a nationwide conservation initiative to maintain a sustainable and genetically diverse polar bear population, the Lincoln Park Zoo said.
At an early-bird member morning recently, Lincoln Park Zoo members said goodbye to Siku, leaving messages on the window of the polar bear habitat at the Walter Family Arctic Tundra, the zoo announced.
The playful Siku arrived in Chicago in 2016, and has been a fan favorite ever since, the zoo said.
“It’s hard not to smile when you see Siku swimming, exploring, pouncing on one of his many balls, or foraging in ice,” curator Cassy Kutilek said in a news release. “He quickly won the hearts of his care team and while we’ll be sad to see him go, we’re excited to see him embark on his next adventure—hopefully as a polar bear dad!”
Talini, the resident female polar bear at the Lincoln Park Zoo, is now elderly and receiving specialized geriatric care. She will soon enter her den for the winter, the zoo said.
Manuel Franco claims his $768 million Powerball jackpot
Manuel Franco, 24, of West Allis was revealed Tuesday as the winner of the $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at April 28, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Pick 3 numbers from April 28 drawing
Midday: 0-6-1
Evening: 4-4-0
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from April 28 drawing
Midday: 2-6-1-9
Evening: 0-8-5-7
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning All or Nothing numbers from April 28 drawing
Midday: 02-03-04-07-09-10-11-12-13-14-22
Evening: 02-03-05-08-09-10-13-16-17-21-22
Check All or Nothing payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Badger 5 numbers from April 28 drawing
14-15-17-18-27
Check Badger 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning SuperCash numbers from April 28 drawing
02-13-14-21-36-39, Doubler: N
Check SuperCash payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
- Prizes up to $599: Can be claimed at any Wisconsin Lottery retailer.
- Prizes from $600 to $199,999: Can be claimed in person at a Lottery Office. By mail, send the signed ticket and a completed claim form available on the Wisconsin Lottery claim page to: Prizes, PO Box 777 Madison, WI 53774.
- Prizes of $200,000 or more: Must be claimed in person at the Madison Lottery office. Call the Lottery office prior to your visit: 608-261-4916.
Can Wisconsin lottery winners remain anonymous?
No, according to the Wisconsin Lottery. Due to the state’s open records laws, the lottery must, upon request, release the name and city of the winner. Other information about the winner is released only with the winner’s consent.
When are the Wisconsin Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Super Cash: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Evening): 9 p.m. CT daily.
- Megabucks: 9:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday and Saturday.
- Badger 5: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
That lucky feeling: Peek at the past week’s winning numbers.
Feeling lucky? WI man wins $768 million Powerball jackpot **
WI Lottery history: Top 10 Powerball and Mega Million jackpots
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Gov. Tony Evers urges Wisconsin lawmakers to pass gerrymandering ban
Gov. Tony Evers has called lawmakers in to take up a constitutional amendment banning partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin’s redistricting process.
MADISON – A second three-judge panel on Tuesday dismissed a challenge to Wisconsin’s congressional maps, ruling it has no authority to act on the claims without further input from the state Supreme Court.
“Until the [state] Supreme Court says otherwise,” the lawsuit’s claims are “non-justiciable and non-cognizable under Wisconsin law,” the judges wrote.
The law firm that brought the suit said it would immediately appeal the ruling to the state Supreme Court.
The decision is one of two cases that have been under consideration by separate panels composed of three judges from different counties appointed by the liberal-led state Supreme Court. The lawsuits, filed in July 2025, followed multiple failed attempts to redraw the maps, which are currently represented by six Republicans and two Democrats.
This case, brought by Law Forward representing the group Wisconsin Business Leaders for Democracy, contends the current maps amount to an anti-competitive gerrymander.
Republican members of the state’s congressional delegation and others sought to dismiss it.
“The three-judge panel got it right,” said Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty deputy counsel Lucas Vebber, an intervenor in the case. “This is a victory for the rule of law in our state.”
The state’s high court issued orders Nov. 25 concluding the two legal challenges constituted “an action to challenge the apportionment of any congressional or state legislative district” under a 2011 state law that requires such challenges to be heard by a panel appointed by the Supreme Court.
It was the first time the 2011 law had been invoked in a redistricting case.
The three-judge panel, led by Dane County Circuit Judge David Conway, wrote in its April 28 order that while plaintiffs presented a “detailed theory to support their claims,” the state Supreme Court already held in 2022 that the “partisan composition of electoral districts raises a non-justiciable political question.”
The panel, “as an inferior court, is obligated to obey them,” the judges wrote.
“The Supreme Court is the ultimate interpreter of our state constitution. When the Court speaks, its words are final unless and until it says otherwise. Because this panel is bound by the Court’s interpretations, it must alternatively dismiss Plaintiffs’ claims for failure to state a cognizable constitutional cause of action,” the panel wrote.
A separate three-judge panel last month rejected a parallel case on similar grounds.
“This is the first anti-competitive gerrymandering case ever filed in Wisconsin courts, and it deserves to be heard,” Law Forward director of litigation Doug Poland said in a statement. “
Under the 2011 law that required these challenges to be heard by panels of circuit court judges, the order may only be appealed to the state Supreme Court.
“We will therefore appeal the case to our state supreme court and look forward to the opportunity to prove that the state’s congressional maps must be redrawn to ensure that Wisconsin voters are given a real choice in voting for congressional district candidates and that the legislature does not dictate which political party’s candidate will prevail by skewing the composition of districts to protect incumbents and political parties,” Poland said.
Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, one of several Democrats vying to be the party’s gubernatorial candidate, posted on X in response to the ruling that “a 50-50 state with a 6-2 delegation isn’t a fair map” and said as governor he would use every option available to me to protect our democracy.”
A campaign spokesman said Barnes would “work with the Legislature to pass fair maps next session.”
President Donald Trump last year pushed Republican-leaning states to redraw their congressional maps to add GOP-held seats in the U.S. House. The effort prompted some Democratic-leaning states to embark on their own efforts to add blue seats.
Gov. Tony Evers seeks a nonpartisan redistricting process
Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who is not seeking a third term, has said it would be a mistake for Wisconsin to engage in the partisan arms race to draw new electoral maps.
“I don’t think we’re in a position to do that. We could draw them as crazy as possible, but … we couldn’t pick up enough seats to make a difference. I just think it would be bad politics for the Democrats to try to do that, and I just don’t think there’s a way to do it,” Evers told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel last fall.
Evers has said implementing a permanent nonpartisan process to create new electoral maps is a priority before he leaves office.
The governor signed an executive order last month calling the Legislature to open a special legislative session to pass a constitutional amendment barring the use of partisan gerrymandering in the state’s redistricting process.
Republicans who control the Legislature have left the special session open rather than immediately gaveling out of it as they have done more than a dozen times when Evers has made similar calls. In doing so, they said they were leaving the door open to “continue meaningful dialogue” on the issue – but Evers said there’s nothing to negotiate.
“Lawmakers either want to ban partisan gerrymandering in Wisconsin or they don’t. It’s that simple,” Evers countered. “If lawmakers fail to take a public vote on this basic question, then Wisconsinites have no choice but to assume their lawmaker’s position on this issue.”
Jessie Opoien can be reached at jessie.opoien@jrn.com.
(This story was updated to add new information.)
Manuel Franco claims his $768 million Powerball jackpot
Manuel Franco, 24, of West Allis was revealed Tuesday as the winner of the $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at April 27, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from April 27 drawing
18-31-33-36-62, Powerball: 03, Power Play: 3
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from April 27 drawing
Midday: 8-8-4
Evening: 7-5-0
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from April 27 drawing
Midday: 0-9-1-3
Evening: 7-0-6-7
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning All or Nothing numbers from April 27 drawing
Midday: 03-06-07-08-11-12-13-14-17-18-20
Evening: 01-05-06-09-12-14-16-17-18-20-22
Check All or Nothing payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Badger 5 numbers from April 27 drawing
15-18-24-28-30
Check Badger 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning SuperCash numbers from April 27 drawing
03-06-07-08-12-24, Doubler: N
Check SuperCash payouts and previous drawings here.
Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
- Prizes up to $599: Can be claimed at any Wisconsin Lottery retailer.
- Prizes from $600 to $199,999: Can be claimed in person at a Lottery Office. By mail, send the signed ticket and a completed claim form available on the Wisconsin Lottery claim page to: Prizes, PO Box 777 Madison, WI 53774.
- Prizes of $200,000 or more: Must be claimed in person at the Madison Lottery office. Call the Lottery office prior to your visit: 608-261-4916.
Can Wisconsin lottery winners remain anonymous?
No, according to the Wisconsin Lottery. Due to the state’s open records laws, the lottery must, upon request, release the name and city of the winner. Other information about the winner is released only with the winner’s consent.
When are the Wisconsin Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Super Cash: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Evening): 9 p.m. CT daily.
- Megabucks: 9:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday and Saturday.
- Badger 5: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
That lucky feeling: Peek at the past week’s winning numbers.
Feeling lucky? WI man wins $768 million Powerball jackpot **
WI Lottery history: Top 10 Powerball and Mega Million jackpots
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Wisconsin editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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