Category Archives: State News

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is encouraging everyone to be safe this season as they head back to their favorite ice-covered lake. But as touted every year by the DNR, no ice is safe i...

An Eastern Wisconsin Senator is looking to improve training for restaurant and food processing plant certification. Sen. Andre Jacque joined forces with Rep. Rob Kreibich of New Richmond to introduce ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has launched a new tool to help private well owners better understand the quality of their water. The tool, Be Well Informed, is intended to allow well ow...

The lights are on for the Capitol Holiday Tree in Madison. Governor Tony Evers and others gathered yesterday for the tree-lighting ceremony in the Capitol rotunda. This year's tree is a balsam fir and...

A group of Wisconsin state lawmakers wants to see vehicle emissions testing come to an end. A coalition of 18 state lawmakers wrote a letter to Wisconsin's congressional delegation requesting the fede...

A man charged following a stabbing incident at a Tomah group home is pleading guilty. Investigators say that Jorge Luis Santos-Martinez stabbed someone with a knife in May of 2024 at a group home in T...

In Clark County, Neillsville Police say they recovered a firearm and illegal drugs during a Thursday traffic stop. Driver Michael Strader and passenger James Cooley were pulled over for an equipment v...

A youth soccer club director in Franklin is facing charges, accused of trying to fly overseas for sex with a child. Justin Kagerbauer was ordered to be detained pending trial on Tuesday, following his...

More than four months after the body of 22-year-old Viterbo University graduate student Eliotte Heinz was recovered from the Mississippi River, authorities are releasing results of her autopsy. Heinz ...

A Madison man is in trouble with the law again, arrested for an 8th offense of operating while intoxicated. The 68-year-old was arrested Tuesday in the Town of Blooming Grove by the Dane County Sherif...