MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a bill that would require online vendors like Amazon to collect and remit sales taxes from third-party sellers in perpetuity, a move that would trigger income tax cuts. Under the bill , revenue from the taxes would cover reductions in the two lowest income tax brackets. Taxpayers could expect an average reduction of $27 for 2019 and $59 for 2020. The Senate approved […]
PICKEREL, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say the youngest victim of a house fire that killed six people in a small northern Wisconsin town was a 10-month-old girl named Zoe M. Munoz Soto. The Langlade County Sheriff's Office released the identity of the victim Wednesday, a day after a fire engulfed a house in Pickerel, about 200 miles (321 kilometers) northwest of Milwaukee. Two adults and three other children died in the fire. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources board has approved permanent regulations governing bow- and hand-fishing seasons for catfish. The regulations impose no statewide size limit but establish a daily bag limit of one flathead catfish and five channel catfish. The hand-fishing season would run from June 1 to Aug. 31. The bow-fishing season would run concurrent with the rough fish bow-fishing season. That season runs continuously across the […]
BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — Federal officials are weighing testimony from the only public hearing in the country on the government's latest attempt to take gray wolves off the endangered and threatened species list. The proposal would return management of the predators to the states, potentially subjecting them to hunting and trapping. It most states it's illegal to kill a wolf unless it's threatening a human. Officials explained at the hearing Tuesday […]
A 61 year old Fond du lac man is in custody following an incident at Lakeside Park. Shortly after 2:30am Wednesday police received a report that a 61 year old Fond du Lac man was suicidal and armed. The man was observed walking in the area of the Lakeside Park harbor and then getting into a vehicle. Police attempted a high risk traffic stop however the man refused their orders […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Assembly has passed the state budget, with all Democrats against. The two-year spending plan approved by the Assembly no Tuesday now heads to the Senate, which is scheduled to give it final approval on Wednesday. It then heads to Democratic Gov. Tony Evers, who isn't saying yet whether he will sign the plan or veto it. He can also make changes with his expansive […]
PICKEREL, Wis. (AP) — Authorities say six people, including four children, have died in a house fire in a small Wisconsin town. The Langlade County Sheriff's Office says the fire was reported about 6:23 a.m. Tuesday in a multifamily home in Pickerel. Langlade County Coroner Larry Shadlick says the victims were a 34-year-old woman, a 32-year-old man, a 10-month-old girl, a 1½-year-old girl, a 3-year-old boy and a 7-year-old boy. Shadlick says […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers is reviewing last-minute changes to the state budget proposal approved by the Republican-controlled Assembly. Republicans are urging the Democratic Evers to sign the budget, which made several significant changes to what Evers had proposed. Democrats in the Assembly said Tuesday the budget doesn't do enough to address issues facing the state like health care access, road funding and education. But the Republican budget does […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of Wisconsin's jobs agency that negotiated the Foxconn Technology Group deal is stepping down later this year, around the time that he could be replaced by Democratic Gov. Tony Evers. State law prevents Evers from replacing Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation Secretary Mark Hogan before Sept. 1. But WEDC spokesman Dave Callender said Tuesday that Hogan plans to step down sometime this fall. Hogan hasn't said […]