The future of the Fond du Lac County Rolling Meadows golf course is the topic of a joint meeting this week of two county committees. The county finance and education, ag and recreation committees are meeting Thursday to discuss the issue. County Board chairman Marty Farrell says the course has lost money for seven consecutive years including $256,000 last year. "We want to maintain it but obviously the losses of […]
WAUTOMA, Wis. (AP) — Six buildings caught fire and 15 homes had to be evacuated as warm weather and dry conditions helped fuel wildfires in central Wisconsin. Catherine Koele, the wildfire prevention specialist for the state Department of Resources, says three houses and three outbuildings caught fire Saturday in Juneau County. She says the homes were used for storage and no one lived in them. In Waushara County, about 15 […]
Fond du lac area residents who live near Lake Winnebago and as far east as St. Peter got a jolt Friday night after hearing what sounded like an explosion. Fond du lac police say an old hand grenade found at a residence earlier Friday was detonated at Lakeside Park west shortly after 10:30pm Friday. The grenade was found by relatives of the homeowner at a home in 100 block of […]
A motorcycle accident in Dodge County has seriously injured the motorcycle operator. The crash happened Friday afternoon on Highway 151 and County Highway DE in the town of Calumus. Investigators say a 44 year old Madison man was operating a motorcycle southbound on 151 when a van pulled onto the highway from County trunk DE, striking the motorcycle. The motorcycle operator was flown by helicopter to UW Hospital in Madison. […]
A Fond du Lac man was injured in an all terrain vehicle accident in Fond du Lac at the ATV park over the weekend. Flight for Life helicopter flew 26 year old Joshua Robbins to the Theda Clark Regional Medical Center Saturday afternoon.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's Department of Tourism says every county in Wisconsin reported increased visitor spending in 2014. It's the first time in four years counties all reported an increase. Travelers contributed $18.5 billion to Wisconsin's economy last year, up 5.5 percent from the year before, according to a state tourism report released Friday. Visitor growth topped 102 million in 2014, an increase of 7 million visits since 2010. […]
HAYWARD, Wis. (AP) — The inland sport fishing season is now open. Governor Scott Walker kicked it off Saturday by dropping a line at the Chippewa Flowage in Sawyer County, east of Hayward. According to Walker's office, sportfishing generates $2.3 billion in economic benefits and supports 22,000 jobs annually in Wisconsin. Through Tuesday, nearly 411,000 anglers had purchased fishing licenses and nearly 94,000 had purchased trout stamps. Fishing license sales […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A new report shows the state Department of Justice is investigating substantially more officer-involved deaths in the wake of a new law requiring outside agencies run such probes. A Legislative Fiscal Bureau report released Friday shows DOJ has investigated 12 deaths since the law took effect in April 2014. That's up 71 percent from seven death investigations in 2013. The agency investigated a total of 19 […]
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — It's been five months since the H5N2 bird flu virus was discovered in the U.S., and producers have lost more than 21 million birds in the Midwest alone. Yet, researchers with federal agencies acknowledge they still know little about the virus' origin and how it spreads, especially with heightened biosecurity measures at commercial poultry farms and the apparent lack of widespread deaths in largely unprotected […]