Category Archives: State News
BBB Warning: Online Gift Card Reseller Has Numerous Complaints
Reselling gift cards and buying pre-owned gift cards is now common practice, especially during gift-giving holidays. If you want to sell your unused gift cards, trade, or buy pre-owned gift cards, sev...
Jan 02, 2021 Tiago Scharfy / CC
Flood Concerns at Center of WI Climate Report
Reducing the threat of historic floods in Wisconsin is being touted as a key benefit of this month's report from the Governor's Task Force on Climate Change. More than 50 recommendations are now on th...
Jan 02, 2021 Whitelaw HWY 10
HFM Chief Nursing Officer: Don’t Read into the ICU Percentage Statistic
Since November 10th, the Manitowoc County Health Department has been reporting the percentage of ICU beds in use in the 10 hospitals in the Northeast Region of the state. In that time, the percentage ...
Jan 02, 2021
Candlelight Vigil Honors Milwaukee Homicide Victims
The Milwaukee Office of Violence Prevention is calling for a ceasefire on New Year's Eve after a year of increased gun violence. A candlelight vigil Wednesday night honored the 189 homicide victims in...
Dec 31, 2020 tacit requiem (joanneQEscober ) / CC
Missing Watertown Ice Fisherman Dies in Portage County Crash
The search is over for a fisherman from Watertown who was reported missing. The Watertown Police Department says 65-year-old Jerald Brennan was found dead by Portage County sheriff's deputies Wednesda...
Dec 31, 2020 IrishFireside / CC
Evers Orders Flags Half-Staff To Honor Clayton Fire Chief Kittleson
Flags will be flying at half-staff across the state Saturday in honor of a western Wisconsin fire chief who died of COVID-19 complications. Governor Tony Evers said Clayton Fire Chief Don Kittleson wa...
Dec 31, 2020 Cristian Ramírez / CC
Wisconsin Democrats Plan to Skip Assembly Inauguration
Democrats in the Wisconsin Assembly won't be attending next week's inauguration ceremony. Minority Leader Gordon Hintz of Oshkosh says they have coronavirus concerns and Monday's event poses a lot of ...
Dec 31, 2020
Trump Campaign Files Another Supreme Court Appeal of Wisconsin Results
For the second time in two days, President Donald Trump is asking the U-S Supreme Court to overturn Wisconsin's election results. Tuesday's filing challenged a ruling from Wisconsin Supreme Court. The...
Dec 31, 2020 Ninian Reid / CC
Vials of Moderna COVID Vaccine Deliberately Removed From Refrigeration
Advocate Aurora Health says 57 vials of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine were deliberately removed from a refrigerator. Aurora initially thought what occurred last weekend at its Grafton hospital was a...
Dec 31, 2020 CDC / Unsplash
Wisconsin COVID-19 Statistics
Positive test results: 2,755 (477,292) Negative test results: 4,607(2,344,771) Patients hospitalized: 126 (21,207) Deaths: 35 (4,818)
Dec 31, 2020 sergio santos / CC
