Month: January 2020

The director of the Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness says he is pleased the state senate has finally acted on one of eight bills designed to fight homelessness in Wisconsin.  The bill approved Tuesday would increase funding for a grant program that provides funding for homeless shelters by  $500,000 each of the next two years.  Wisconsin Coalition Against Homelessness executive director Joe Volk tells WFDL news unfortunately the senate could have acted before winter […]

New data from the state Department of Natural Resources shows hunters killed nearly 50,000 fewer deer last year than in 2018. A report DNR officials plan to present to their board Tuesday shows hunters killed 288,025 deer across all seasons last year, including archery, the traditional nine-day season and the youth hunt. That's down from 335,243 deer in 2018. Hunters killed 23.5% fewer deer during the nine-day. The report attributes […]

Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law a pair of bills designed to combat the spread of Lyme disease by warning visitors to state parks and other outdoor properties about the risks and making insect repellent available to buy in state parks and trails. Under one new law, the state Department of Natural Resources would be required to post at least one sign warning visitors about Lyme disease at each […]

A conservative law firm wants the Wisconsin Supreme Court to reverse a lower court's order putting on hold a ruling that would have forced the removal of up to 209,000 people from the state's voter rolls. Attorneys for the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty asked the state Supreme Court on Tuesday to overturn a state appeals court Jan. 14 decision to place the original ruling on hold. It also […]

The Waupun Utilities general manager says upgrades to the city’s wastewater treatment system will help the city meet more than just new DNR-madated phosphorous requirements.   Randy Postuma tells WFDL news the city will be implementing what’s  called an advanced biological nutrient recovery or ABNR system.  Postuma says the concern is that phosphorous causes algae blooms in waterways, specifically in this case, the Rock River.  Postuma says the good news is the ABNR […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Senate has passed a bill that would force all day care centers, child care providers and children's camps to test their water for lead. Current state law requires day care centers that care for at least nine children and obtain water from a private well to test for lead as a condition for obtaining a license. Under the bill approved Tuesday, all child care centers […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Senate has approved a bill that would allow University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers to request hundreds of thousands of dollars to recover missing Wisconsin soldiers' remains. The bill would allow the UW-Madison Missing-In-Action Recovery and Identification Project to ask the state to release $360,000 over the next two fiscal years to fund searches for Wisconsin soldiers missing around the world. The project's founder says about […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Justice plans to review a series of sexual assault investigations from the Wisconsin National Guard after a federal report found many were conducted improperly. An email from the National Guard Bureau obtained by The Cap Times says at least two accusers were told the DOJ would review some cases. The National Guard Bureau is the agency that wrote the report that revealed […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Transportation Security Administration said officials stopped a Wisconsin man with a loaded gun while going through a checkpoint at Mitchell International Airport. The TSA said its officers saw the .38-caliber handgun loaded with six bullets when the man removed his coat and placed it on a conveyor belt to walk through a X-ray machine on Tuesday. The man, a Mequon resident whose name was not released, […]