Month: March 2018

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — An internal investigation into harassment and bullying by Green Bay police officers on the night shift has resulted in discipline against six officers.  A 249-page report released to media outlets through open records requests says as many as nine officers harassed and bullied eight colleagues on the night shift in 2016, including using racial slurs and other inappropriate conduct while on duty.  While six were […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — State Department of Natural Resources officials say 6 percent of deer tested last year were infected with chronic wasting disease.  According to DNR data presented to the agency's board Wednesday, 593 of 9,685 deer tested between April 1, 2017 and Feb. 10 tested positive for the disease, a prevalence rate of 6.1 percent. The testing season runs from April 1 through March.  The 2016 prevalence rate […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources board members are pressuring the agency to use softer terminology to describe counties affected by chronic wasting disease.  The DNR's website currently notes 47 counties are affected by the disease. That means the county has either had a deer test positive or lies within 10 miles of another county that has had a positive.  Board member Gregory Kazmierski told DNR Wildlife […]