Month: April 2019

This is Tornado and Severe Weather Awareness Week in Wisconsin.  Wisconsin Emergency Management, the National Weather Service and Wisconsin Broadcasters Association are once again teaming up for  statewide tornado drills scheduled for Friday.  Waupun emergency management director B.J. DeMaa says its an opportunity for everyone to test their severe weather emergency plans.  According to the National Weather Service, Wisconsin averages 23 tornadoes annually.  However, last year there were 33 confirmed […]

The Fond du Lac County Emergency Management director says today is a good time to think about what you would do if there was a tornado.  This is Severe Weather Awareness week, and statewide tornado drills are being held Friday afternoon and again Friday evening.  A mock tornado watch will be held at 1pm Friday followed by a mock tornado warning at 1:45.  Another mock tornado warning will be held […]

Fond du lac city officials say they hope to learn soon whether  the owner of a  near downtown building plans to repair or demolish the building.  Macy Street, from Forest Avenue to First Street has been closed for more than two weeks since about a dozen bricks fell off the Macy Mini Mall building.  "There's some structural challenges over there that have sort of revealed themselves and I don't know […]

The Fond du lac County Sheriff’s Office says the case of a capsized kayaker on Lake Winnebago this week is a reminder of the importance of wearing a life jacket.    Sheriff’s captain Jeff Bonack says a Fond du Lac man fell  out of his kayak about a mile from shore and wasn’t wearing a life jacket.  "That's one of the things I really want to put out there.  Its neat […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin National Guard officials recorded more than 50 reports of sexual assault between 2013 and 2017.  The Guard's sexual assault response coordinator, Robert Brania, told reporters during a question-and-answer session Thursday that investigators have taken 52 reports during those years.  Twenty were so-called "restricted" reports in which the alleged victim requests confidentiality and no investigation is launched.  Thirty reports were "unrestricted" reports where the alleged victim […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Some of the most powerful women in Wisconsin state government are coming together to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the state's ratification of the 19th Amendment.  Wisconsin was the first state in the country to ratify the amendment, which gave women the right to vote. The state approved it in June 1919 and the 36th state ratified it more than a year later making it law.  […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is refusing to say who he voted for the 2016 Democratic presidential primary.  Evers on Thursday says "they call that a secret ballot, so I won't respond to that" when asked who he voted for. Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders carried Wisconsin by 13 points over Hillary Clinton.  Sanders is holding a rally Friday in Madison, just a few blocks from the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Regulators have approved two solar farms that they say will more than quadruple Wisconsin's solar capacity.  The Public Service Commission approved the projects 2-0 on Thursday.  One farm near Two Rivers will have a 150-megawatt capacity. The other will be located in Iowa County and will have a 300 megawatt-capacity. PSC officials say together the projects will produce enough energy to power 120,000 homes for a […]

The Fond du Lac city council is amending the city’s workplace smoke ban to include e-cigarettes.  Tobacco Prevention and Control Program coordinator with the Fond du Lac County Health Department, Sandy Bernier, says there are still unanswered questions about e-cigarette safety and the effects of second hand vapor.  "My reaction is I think they (council) understand the public health issue and the need to have safe, clean air for everyone,"  […]