Month: February 2022

Fond du Lac's Mercury Marine hopes to bring it's first electric outboard motor to market sometime later this year.  The Avator electric outboard concept was on display for the first time this week at the 2022 Miami International Boat Show.  Merc Outboard Propulsion director, Brian Meyer, says the environmental advantage of depending less on fossil  fuels is obvious.  Meyer says the Avator concept will deliver a superior user experience for a wide range […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed a deal allowing wagers on sports and other events at the Forest County Potawatomi's tribal casinos. The governor's office and tribal Chairman Ned Daniels Jr. announced Friday the state and the Potawatomi have amended the tribe's gaming compact to allow for event wagering. The deal is still subject to U.S. Department of the Interior approval. The tribe hopes to open a […]

Be careful on area lakes.  This photo was taken on Lake Poygan of a pickup truck breaking through the ice.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Assembly has passed a Republican-authored bill that limits government officials' ability to close select businesses in an emergency. The legislation would block any government official from declaring a business essential or nonessential. It also would mandate that any regulation on businesses imposed during an emergency would have to be applied to all businesses uniformly regardless of the type of business or the product or […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Rebecca Kleefisch said five months ago that President Joe Biden won Wisconsin, but now she is dodging the question while awaiting the results of pending Republican-led investigations into the 2020 election. Kleefisch’s change in position on Biden’s win comes as other Republican candidates in the governor’s race have questioned the win and one, state Rep. Timothy Ramthun, has tried unsuccessfully to award the […]

The sturgeon spearing season ended this week on the Upriver Lakes, but is likely to last the full 16 days on Lake Winnebago.  DNR  Senior Fisheries biologist Aaron O'Connell says while there are some big fish out there, the trend has been toward leaner fish.  "Our percentage of fish weighing 100 pounds or greater is right around where it was last year,"  O'Connell told WFDL news.  "Biggest fish harvested so […]

Poor voter turnout in two Primary Election races in Fond du Lac County.  County Clerk Lisa Freiberg says there was only a 12 percent turnout in the North Fond du Lac School Board race.  "For instance, town of Eldorado they had nine ballots cast.  They have 90 registered voters," Freiberg told WFDL news.   Freiberg says only a handful of people voted in a Ripon aldermanic race. "1.096 registered voters and 90 […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee’s acting mayor and a longtime former alderman will face off in the mayoral general election in April. They were the two who generated the most votes in a field of seven during Tuesday's primary. The race contrasts Cavalier Johnson, a millennial Democrat who was first elected as a Milwaukee alderman in 2016 against Bob Donovan, a conservative who spent 20 years as an alderman representing the […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican state senator from Appleton and a former longshot candidate for governor are running for lieutenant governor in Wisconsin. State Sen. Roger Roth, a former Senate president and candidate for Congress, announced his candidacy for lieutenant governor on Thursday. Earlier this week, former gubernatorial candidate Jonathan Wichmann switched to running for lieutenant governor. They join a crowded field for the state’s No. 2 spot. The […]