The investigation continues into the cause of a fire that damaged a Fond du Lac home Monday morning. Firefighters were called to the scene at 16 North Lincoln Avenue to find flames on the first floor and a woman trapped on the second floor. Firefighters helped the woman out of a second story window and down a ladder. Division Chief of Fire Prevention Troy Haase says the fire was contained […]
Wisconsin is getting a soaking from rare December rainfall. The National Weather Service had issued flood watches for southwestern, south-central, southeastern and northeastern Wisconsin as a slug of rain pushes northward into Wisconsin from the central U.S. The watch was cancelled shortly after 9am Monday. In southwest Wisconsin, the weather service says nearly 4 inches of rain already had fallen on Viroqua by Sunday morning, and it was […]
The direction and future of Fond du Lac’s downtown is the focus of a new group that will be formed shortly after the first of the year. Fond du Lac city council president Lee Ann Lorrigan says the council will take action at their first meeting in January to form a downtown Fond du Lac Vision Team. "There's a lot of different dynamics happening in our community, in our culture, […]
The Fond du Lac Department of Public Works says a portion of Division Street will be closed Monday morning. Division Street between Main Street and Portland Street will be closed Monday, in the morning only to allow a crane to be placed for rooftop work at the Ramada Hotel. Motorists are encouraged to find an alternate route as there will not be a signed detour.
Fond du Lac's Moraine Park Technical College has announced a new partnership with Ottawa University in the Milwaukee suburb of Brookfield. The two colleges have partnered to allow for students to have up to 80 earned credits from Moraine Park transfer to Ottawa University. Of the 124 credit hours required to complete a bachelor’s degree, the remaining 44 upper division credit hours are taken at Ottawa University and can be […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has given the system's adult education arm the authority to grant business degrees. The regents unanimously approved changes to UW-Extension's mission statement Friday allowing it to grant business certificates, associate degrees and bachelor's degrees in businesses through the UW System's Flex Option. That program allows adult students to earn credits by demonstrating real-life experience. Right now UW-Extension doesn't […]
OSHKOSH, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say a man shot and wounded by law enforcement officers outside the Algoma town hall just west of Oshkosh threatened suicide before he rammed a squad car. Winnebago County Sheriff John Matz told reporters Friday that authorities were looking for 57-year-old Richard L. Klemz after a disturbance at his home in the Town of Algoma on Thursday afternoon. He says Klemz rammed a deputy's squad […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A meeting between University of Wisconsin leaders and a student group demanding more efforts to recognize diversity on campus has fallen through. UW System President Ray Cross and regents President Regina Miller were slated to meet with about 20 students after a regents meeting Friday morning to discuss demands for a diversity task force, more mental health professionals of color on campus and mandatory racial awareness […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — New Speaker Paul Ryan promised a fresh start for the House. But it's looking like business as usual as lawmakers wrap up a year-end spending bill that pays for Planned Parenthood, the president's health care law and other Obama administration priorities. Last-stage negotiations are taking in private and at the highest levels, shutting out rank-and-file lawmakers and even committee chairmen. And conservatives — far from threatening a […]