Fond du Lac’s Walleye Weekend has officially been cancelled. After initially postponing the event until late August, festival organizers announced Wednesday the decision was made to cancel the event due to the COVID-19 pandemic. However, the board says a family event is being planned for Lakeside Park in August that will take into consideration concerns raised by local health officials. Organizers say details on that event will be released soon.
A Beaver Dam man was critically injured when his motorcycle collided with a deer in Dodge County. The crash happened at 11:15pm Tuesday on STH 73 north of CTH G in the Town of Westford. He was not wearing a helmet. The 41 year old motorcycle operator was flown by Med Flight to UW-Madison Hospital. Alcohol is not believed to be a factor.
Two people were transported to the hospital with non life-threatening injuries following a two vehicle crash in Fond du Lac County. The crash happened shortly before 6:30pm Tuesday on Highway 151 at Deadwood Point Road when a northbound vehicle driven by a 75 year old New Holstein man was attempting to pass a motorcycle and collided with a pick-up truck turning west onto Deadwood Point Road. He was extricated from his vehicle and transported to […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources board is poised to vote on whether to allow the agency to begin drafting regulations implementing new restrictions on firefighting foam containing chemicals known as PFAS. Democratic Gov. Tony Evers signed a Republican bill in February that bans the use of firefighting foam that contains PFAS except in emergencies and for testing. The DNR must write regulations implementing the restrictions […]
The Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer says she is concerned that more young people are contracting COVID-19. Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says the majority of positive COVID-19 cases in the past week have been in the 20 to 29 age group. "The majority of people we have been seeing over the past week are within the age range of 20 to 29," Mueller told WFDL news. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The U.S. Army Reserve has suspended the commander of an Illinois-based unit as part of an ongoing investigation into allegations officers mishandled sexual misconduct complaints and retaliated against a whistleblower. Lt. Gen. Charles Luckey, commanding general of the Army Reserve Command, announced Tuesday evening in a statement that he has suspended the commander of the 416th Theater Engineering Command. The statement did not identify the commander […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Legislature's Republican-controlled budget committee has approved four more legal settlements under the state's lame-duck laws. It passed statutes in December 2018 that require Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul to get permission from the Joint Finance Committee before settling lawsuits. The panel approved the first settlement under the laws in October. Kaul on Tuesday asked the committee to sign off on settlements involving pollution runoff, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that a judge’s decision to become Facebook friends with a woman whose child custody case he was hearing created at least the appearance of bias. The court on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s order that the case be re-heard by another judge. The ruling was the first of its kind in Wisconsin and it could test the boundaries of […]
The Northwoods League has announced the schedule for the first two weeks of the Wisconsin-Illinois Pod, and the Fond du Lac Dock Spiders are scheduled to open at home on Wednesday, July 1st at 6:35PM against the Wisconsin Woodchucks. The Dock Spiders will have seven other home dates scheduled over the two-week stretch from July 1st through July 14th. The schedule for the first two weeks of the season can be found here. […]