Month: June 2015

The Fond du Lac Lakeside Park Exploratory committee has officially released its findings and recommendations following nearly a year of study and review.  The committee officially presented its report at Wednesday night’s city council meeting.  Committee chair John Short says all of the recommendations are focused on trying to attract more people to the park. Short says at the top of the list is creating more walking and biking paths, […]

Court records shed more light on a Fond du Lac man who was sentenced this week in connection with an armed standoff with police.  Shannon Rogler was sentenced this week  to 40 years in prison.  District Attorney Eric Toney says investigators learned that  Rogler had planned the incident and appears to have wanted to get into a shootout with police.  "What we know based on the information is that there […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker says if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down health care subsidies, it's up to President Barack Obama and Congress to fix it and not the states.  Walker was asked Wednesday in Milwaukee whether he had a contingency plan if the subsidies are eliminated. Walker says Obama and Congress are "going to want to kick the problem to the states and we're not going […]

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says the first phase of expanding Highway 23 to four lanes between Fond du Lac and Plymouth will not take place this year.  The project was put on hold last month after a federal judge ruled the DOT used inflated traffic forecasts to justify the project.    The $10 million first phase involved a seven mile stretch of road between Plymouth and the Sheboygan-FDL County line. […]

The state Department of Workforce Development says unemployment rates increased in the majority of Wisconsin counties and 30 of the state's 32 largest cities in May.  The city of Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate in May is 4.8 percent, up from 4.2 percent in April.  Fond du Lac County’s jobless rate increased four tenths of a percent to 4.2 percent.  The Dodge County unemployment rate stands at 4.5 percent up […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Two Democratic members of the board that runs Governor Scott Walker's troubled economic development agency are calling for the CEO of the organization to resign. Reed Hall has led the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation since October 2012. State Rep. Peter Barca and state Sen. Julie Lassa say Hall hasn't done enough to stop wrongdoing and mismanagement of taxpayer money.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Governor Scott Walker is defending the timing of a ceremony to sign two bills loosening Wisconsin's gun laws, saying they were scheduled before nine people were shot and killed last week in South Carolina and that not having the public event would have made people think the measures had something to do with the shooting. The new laws to eliminate the state's 48-hour waiting period on handgun […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he still does not have the votes to pass the state budget and that Republicans have yet to reach an agreement on several key issues. The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee has not met since May 29 and has no meetings scheduled. Governor Scott Walker says a framework of a budget deal is likely in the next few days, though […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white-tailed deer in Eau Claire County has tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The state agriculture department says the doe, which has died, was among 167 animals on a breeding farm. The herd was placed under quarantine. Investigators from the department are working to trace the animal's movements to see if any other herds would have been exposed.