Category Archives: State News

Wisconsin native Tom Wopat will no longer have his name on an award program in his home area of Madison. The Overture Center for the Arts said Monday it has "severed all ties" with Wopat, who's charge...

It won't be easy being outdoors today (Tuesday). Strong winds are predicted statewide, gusting up to 45 miles-an-hour in most places and up to 60 in Door County. The National Weather Service says a hi...

Wisconsin Senate Republican leader Scott Fitzgerald says Assembly Speaker Robin Vos should apologize for calling three senators "terrorists" on a television broadcast. Fitzgerald says it was "beyond i...

For more than 30 years, Two Rivers couple Ron and Donna Feest decorated their home on the 800 block of 17th Street with help from their family, with over 100 jack-o-lanterns. Their home became a local...

By the end of the year, 52 workers in Appleton will be out of a job. U.S. Paper Converters has announced that they will be closing their Appleton facility on or around December 31st. All affected empl...

Former state and U-S senator Russ Feingold will teach a course at U-W Madison next fall. The university said Monday that Feingold would be a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, teaching a capstone semina...

No criminal charges will be filed against a Grant County sheriff's deputy who shot and killed a man following an incident that involved a foreclosure. It happened September first. Officials say Roger ...

A 61-year-old man killed when his motorcycle hit a deer in southern Wisconsin has been identified as Jerome Sazama of Arena. A 60-year-old female passenger was seriously injured in the crash. It happe...

Milwaukee County says it has new evidence that a woman lied when she claimed that a guard at the County Jail sexually assaulted her. The county has asked for a new trial, after a federal jury awarded ...

Wisconsin's longest serving U-S House Democrat says there's no way that taxes and health care will be fixed in such a hyper partisan political climate. Ron Kind of La Crosse is in his 21st year in Con...