Category Archives: State News

The addition of about 100 auditors at the Wisconsin Department of Revenue has more than covered the additional cost. State lawmakers dedicated 14-million dollars in the most recent budget to create th...

Mercury Marine will celebrate its 80th anniversary throughout 2019, reflecting on its strong heritage of innovation and leadership in the marine industry. On January 22, 1939, E. Carl Kiekhaefer purch...

Monona police say an off-duty Lake Mills firefighter was hit by a vehicle Monday when he stopped to help at a crash scene. Chris Truman suffered fatal injuries when he was hit on the Beltline just bef...

Milwaukee police report three people died when a car being chased went out of control Monday night and plunged into the Kinnickinnic River. No names have been released. The car was a suspect vehicle i...

The driver of a Cross Plains snow plow suffered minor injuries Monday evening when his equipment slid on an icy, slick road. The driver's name hasn't been released. The Dane County Sheriff's Office re...

The 75-year-old Milwaukee man who shot and killed a would-be robber says he was simply defending himself. Henry Bell told television station W-I-T-I Sunday night that he fired his gun at a group of pe...

Madison police are looking for two burglars who broke into a Target store on Christmas Day. Their activities were recorded on surveillance video. Off-site security reported an intrusion alarm was trig...

A Chippewa Falls man is accused of stealing a woman's car and her service dog. The criminal complaint says 26-year-old Nathan Hakes stole the woman's car from a parking lot in Eau Claire over the week...

Fewer people were killed in Milwaukee in 2018 than the year before. Milwaukee Police said as of Sunday, 99 people had been killed in the city. That's the lowest homicide total since 2014. Milwaukee Ma...

Authorities say human remains were found inside a house in Langlade County where a fire broke out over the weekend. The Langlade County Sheriff's Department says emergency crews were called Sunday mor...