Category Archives: State News
Burnett County Elk Tests Positive for CWD
National Veterinary Services Laboratory in Ames, Iowa has confirmed that an elk in Burnett County has chronic wasting disease (CWD). The 6-year-old male elk, which lived on a breeding farm, was euthan...
Aug 31, 2019 Chris Luczkow / CC
DNR Says Wisconsin Grey Wolf Population May Have Stabilized
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says it counted 978 gray wolves during the annual census last April. That's a one-percent increase and an indicator that the state's gray wolf population ...
Aug 30, 2019
15-Year-Old Milwaukee Suspect Charged With 1st-Degree Reckless Homicide
A 15-year-old Milwaukee boy faces charges of first-degree reckless homicide in a weekend shooting death on the city's south side. Jose L. Orta is chargted as an adult. A witness tells police Orta shot...
Aug 30, 2019 Blogtrepreneur / CC
Sauk County Man Accused Of Abducting, Injuring 2-Year-Old Girl
A 22-year-old Sauk County man faces charges from a May incident in Lake Delton which left a two-year-old girl injured. James Sellers is accused of breaking in through an unlocked window of a mobile ho...
Aug 30, 2019
Wisconsin AG Reviewing Confidentiality Agreement With Republicans
The Wisconsin attorney general is said to be reviewing a confidentiality agreement signed by a lawyer representing Republican lawmakers. Democrat Josh Kaul and G-O-P members of the Legislature's Joint...
Aug 30, 2019
Onalaska Police Investigate Dead Body Found In Storage Unit
Onalaska police are calling the discovery of a dead body in a storage unit a suspicious death. The discovery was made Thursday at a little after 3:30 P-M. The name of the 60-year-old man found in the ...
Aug 30, 2019
Employee Mistake Results In 28-Cent Gas At Brookfield Station
A gas station in Brookfield reports it lost about 35-hundred dollars when the wrong price was programmed into its gas pumps shortly before closing. The mid-grade price was supposed to be two-dollars, ...
Aug 30, 2019 Robert Geiger / CC
Suit Filed By Backers Of $60M Manure Digester In Brown County
Plans for Wisconsin's largest manure digester are on hold in Brown County while the company behind the 60-million dollar project sues the Town of Hollard. B-C Organics wants to build the giant facilit...
Aug 29, 2019 Aiko, Thomas & Juliette+Isaac / CC
Brown County Considers Pluses/Minuses Of Juvenile Detention Facility
Brown County supervisors are worried about the annual costs of operating a juvenile detention facility if it is built in that county. A cost of 43-million dollars has been suggested. The center will b...
Aug 29, 2019 cw3283 / CC
Majority of Wisconsin Lung Disease Cases Related to Vaping THC
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says the vast majority of recent lung disease cases in the state are related to vaping T-H-C products. Eighty-nine percent of the 32 patients reported using...
Aug 29, 2019
