MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker is abandoning the reconstruction and widening of Interstate 94 in Milwaukee between the Marquette and Zoo interchanges. Walker's Department of Transportation Secretary Dave Ross asked the federal government in a Sept. 29 letter to rescind its authorization of the project. The project was expected to cost $1 billion or more, but Walker did not include any funding for it in the recently signed […]
RACINE, Wis. (AP) — Taiwanese electronics manufacturer Foxconn Technology Group says it plans to locate a display screen factory in the southeastern Wisconsin village of Mount Pleasant. The exact site was announced by local officials following months of negotiations with the company and landowners. Mount Pleasant has a population of about 26,000. It's about 25 miles (40 kilometers) south of Milwaukee and 60 miles (100 kilometers) north of Chicago. Racine […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee has approved a Republican bill that would end Wisconsin's sulfide mining moratorium. The Senate Committee on Sporting Heritage, Mining and Forestry voted 3-2 to approve the bill Wednesday. All three Republicans on the committee voted for the bill. The two Democrats voted against it. Committee approval sets up a full Senate vote. Wisconsin lawmakers enacted legislation in 1998 requiring companies seeking to mine […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Rep. Bob Gannon, a West Bend Republican in his second term, has died. Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke's aide, Alesha Potter, says Gannon's family informed Steineke that Gannon died Tuesday of natural causes. Gannon was 58. Gannon was first elected in 2014 and built a reputation as pro-gun and tough on crime, threatening to drop membership in the West Bend Sunshine Rotary Club because the […]
New emergency outdoor warning sirens are being installed in Waupun this week. Fire chief B.J. DeMaa says the old sirens were installed more than 30 years ago. DeMaa says as the new sirens are being installed residents may hear them activated at times outside of the normal. DeMaa says Waupun has three outdoor warning sirens…often referred to as tornado sirens.
The Fond du Lac County Senior Services benefits specialist says its time to think about whether you need to make changes to your Medicare prescription drug plan. The Medicare Open Enrollment period runs from October 15 through December 7. Benefits specialist Julie Hilbert says Medicare beneficiaries have an opportunity to enroll in, switch or disenroll from Medicare stand alone prescription drug plans and Medicare Advantage plans. Hilbert says even if […]
Nobody was injured in a kitchen fire at a Van Dyne residence. Shortly after 6pm Tuesday firefighters were called to a report of a stove on fire at N8992 Lakeshore Dr. in the township of Friendship. The fire was contained to the stove area of the kitchen and quickly extinguished. Damage was minor to the interior of the residence. Food left on the stove apparently started the fire.
The United States Department of Agriculture Secretary has designated seven east central Wisconsin counties as disaster areas due to crop losses from heavy rains in late June and early July. Calumet, Fond du Lac, Winnebago, Brown, Sheboygan and Outagamie counties are included in the designation. Calumet County lost more than 30 percent of its strawberry crop as a result of excessive rain and flooding that kept fields underwater and soils […]
The Supreme Court's liberals and conservatives appear divided about striking down a Wisconsin redistricting plan because it is excessively partisan. The big question, after an hour-long argument Tuesday, is what does Justice Anthony Kennedy think. The answer could reshape American politics. Kennedy suggested that courts could be involved in placing limits on extremely partisan electoral maps. But he did not tip his hand at all about whether the Wisconsin map […]