Category Archives: State News
UK COVID-19 Variant Cases More Than Triple In Last Week
The Wisconsin Department of Health Services reports the number of COVID-19 cases of the UK variant has more than tripled in the last week. There were six confirmed cases on February 25th and that numb...
Mar 05, 2021 sergio santos / CC
Missouri Man Accused Of Killing 2 Wisconsin Brothers Goes To Trial For Theft
Prosecutors in Missouri say the man accused of killing two Wisconsin brothers convinced someone outside the jail where he is being held to retrieve a trailer for him. Garland Nelson said he had paid $...
Mar 05, 2021
Wolf Management Plan Process Begins With Application For New Committee
The Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has announced the open application period for a newly formed Wolf Management Plan Committee (WMPC). Beginning this month, the department will begin recruitmen...
Mar 04, 2021 Close up image of a gray wolf in winter
Wisconsin Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to the Brown County Sales Tax
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear a legal challenge by the Brown County Taxpayers Association over the way the county is spending a half-cent sales tax. That tax was implemented three years ago to...
Mar 04, 2021
Marquette Faculty, Staff & Students Picket Against Employee, Program Cuts
A group of faculty members, staff, and students picketed outside the Marquette University president's office Wednesday during the noon hour. They marched into the street to show their opposition to em...
Mar 04, 2021
Governor Offers Idea Of State Public Schools Opening Earlier, Adding To Summer School
Wisconsin's governor has floated a couple of ideas directed at helping students catch up when they return to the classroom after a year of virtual learning. Governor Tony Evers suggests that public sc...
Mar 04, 2021 Governor Tony Evers Official Portrait
Murder Suspect Makes First Court Appearance – DNA Evidence Linked Him To Killing
A quick-thinking detective retrieved the face mask Jason Kijewski wore while he was being interviewed when he threw it in the trash. The DNA from that mask linked him to a burglary and fatal shooting ...
Mar 04, 2021
Judge Denies New Trial Request From Man Who Ran Down Girl Scouts
Chippewa County Circuit Judge James Isaacson has denied a new trial request from the man who ran down a group of girl scouts in November of 2018. Colten Treu is serving 54 years for being high when he...
Mar 04, 2021
Assembly Republicans Revive Call For Convention Of States To Make Constitutional Changes
Republicans in the Wisconsin Assembly want to take another shot at passing a resolution to call for a convention of the states. A public hearing was held on the proposal Wednesday. The convention woul...
Mar 04, 2021
Ethan’s Law Passes State Subcommittee
A proposal co-authored by two local lawmakers honors the memory of a 7-year-old Manitowoc boy who died in April 2018 after suffering a pattern of cruel abuse by his designated caregiver. First Distric...
Mar 03, 2021
