MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s projected state budget surplus is now forecast to hit nearly $6.6 billion by July, up from earlier $5 billion estimates. That is according to a report released Monday by Gov. Tony Evers’ administration. The Republican-controlled state Legislature and Evers, a Democrat reelected to a second term this month, will be focused over the next several months on what to do with the money. Evers in […]
The price of a Thanksgiving meal in Wisconsin is 4.3 percent more this year, but still below the national average. That according to the Wisconsin Farm Bureau's annual marketbasket survey. Farm Bureau spokeswoman Cassie Sonnentag says the price for 15 Thanksgiving food items this year rang in at $74.54, up from $71.49 cents last year, but below the national average of $81.30. The cost of a 16 pound turkey is […]
Prices at the wholesale level rose eight percent in October from a year ago, the fourth straight decline. Retired Ripon College economist Paul Schoofs says it's the latest sign that inflation pressures in the United States are easing from painfully high levels. Schoofs says the figures came in lower than economists expected and make it more likely the Federal Reserve will increase its benchmark interest rate in smaller increments.
The U.S. Supreme Court is considering challenges to a law enacted in 1978 to respond to the alarming rate at which Native American and Alaska Native children were being removed from their homes by public and private agencies. The U.S. Supreme Court now has taken up challenges to the law three times — in 1989, 2013 and 2022. The current case is the most significant because it raises questions of equal protection […]
A Fond du Lac man convicted in the drug overdose death of a Fond du Lac woman is going to prison. Robert Harris has been sentenced to seven years in prison followed by eight years extended supervision after he was found guilty of first degree reckless homicide. The charges carried a maximum sentence of 40 years in prison. Police say Harris provided fentanyl that led to the woman’s death at a West Second Street rooming house […]
Two people were killed and nine people injured in a chain reaction series of crashes on Interstate 41 in Outagamie County over the weekend. The first crash happened Sunday afternoon when a vehicle rolled over on northbound 41 at Highway 441 ejecting the driver. He received serious injuries and was arrested for drunken driving. The crash caused a traffic backup resulting in a five-vehicle crash. Numerous patients were transported by ambulance to the hospital, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Amy Loudenbeck is conceding that she has lost the race for Wisconsin secretary of state. Unofficial results from the Nov. 8 election show incumbent Democrat Doug La Follette defeated Loudenbeck by 7,660 votes. The difference was just three-tenths of a percentage point, close enough for Loudenbeck to request a recount but outside the margin that would have made it free. She conceded on Monday. Loudenbeck […]
An 11 year old boy died in a hunting accident in Green Lake County. The DNR says the boy was accidentally shot in the chest Sunday morning in the town of Seneca. According to the DNR a 41 year old man tried to unload his gun while it was placed in the back seat of a vehicle. The gun discharged striking the victim. The victim was flown by helicopter to a hospital where he died.
Just a handful of hours after the Wisconsin Badgers football team secured bowl eligibility with a 1-point win over Nebraska on Saturday, the official job posting for the head coaching position went live on the University of Wisconsin's job board. FanNation reports that "after Paul Chryst's firing on October 2, it appears the administration has seen enough to know the direction they want to go. Unsurprisingly, everything points to Jim Leonhard." […]