Month: May 2023

Start Date/Time: Friday, May 19 - 12:00 am CDT End Date/Time: Saturday, May 20 - 12:00 am CDT Counties: Brown, Calumet, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Dodge, Door, Fond du Lac, Grant, Green, Green Lake, Iowa, Jefferson, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Lafayette, Manitowoc, Marquette, Milwaukee, Outagamie, Ozaukee, Racine, Richland, Rock, Sauk, Sheboygan, Walworth, Washington, Waukesha, & Winnebago Comments: Wildfire smoke originating from Canada will move into southern and eastern Wisconsin from northwest-to-southeast beginning around […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Senate and Assembly Republicans are at odds over a key ingredient of a proposal long sought after by local governments that would significantly boost state aid to pay for essential services, putting the future of the measure in jeopardy. The Assembly passed a wide-ranging bill Wednesday that would increase aid at least 15% for all local governments in the state and give Milwaukee city and […]

Local law enforcement officers gathered  at Hamilton Park Thursday   to remember officers who have given their lives to protect the community.   Police chief Aaron Goldstein  says in the city’s history, four Fond du Lac police officers have been killed in the line of duty.  Officer William Prinslow, in 1898, officer Nick Klaske in 1961 and officer Craig Birkholz in March 2011.  State trooper Trevor Casper was shot and killed in Fond […]

Smoke from western Canada wildfires is causing hazy skies across Wisconsin this week.  National Weather Service meteorologist Paul Collar says over a hundred wildfires in western Canada provinces are causing a large smoke plume to reach large swaths of the Great Lakes region including Wisconsin.  Collar says the smoke gets lofted into the atmosphere and could linger into Saturday.  Warm and dry conditions have caused a greater risk of fire weather […]

Investigators say distracted driving with a cellphone may be to blame for a fatal head on collision in Fond du Lac County that claimed two lives.  Fond  du Lac County Sheriff Ryan Waldschmidt says the crash happened about 1pm  on Highway 23 near Heinrich Road in the town of Lamartine.   Both the driver of the eastbound car that crossed the center line,  a 19 year old Rosendale woman, and the driver of  the […]

The Department of Workforce Development says preliminary employment estimates for the month of April showed Wisconsin's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to a record low of 2.4%.  The total number of unemployed people dropped by 3,700 over the month of April and 13,300 over the year to a new record low of 72,900.   In addition, total seasonally adjusted nonfarm jobs increased 3,800 over the month of April and 51,500 year-over-year to hit a new […]

A Fond du Lac woman arrested in connection with a fatal car crash in Fond du Lac County that killed two  teenagers in January has been charged.   Twenty seven year old Sanju Paudel made her initial Fond du Lac Court appearance Thursday on a charge of providing alcohol to a minor  resulting in death.  District Attorney Eric Toney says  Paudel is accused of selling two 30 packs of beer and a bottle of […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says that Republicans are “done negotiating” on a bill that would increase state aid to local governments, unveiling a new proposal that Democratic Gov. Tony Evers and the GOP-controlled Senate have yet to agree to. The Assembly passed the latest version on Wednesday hours after Evers expressed optimism that a bipartisan agreement could be reached. But Evers was not included in […]

The president of Moraine Park Technical College says the first of four referendum projects is designed to address a worker shortage in the manufacturing sector.   Groundbreaking ceremonies were held Wednesday afternoon on the first phase of  a two-phase project updating  the Fond du lac Advanced Manufacturing and Trades area on the Fond du Lac campus, with  the addition of the Automation, Innovation and Robotics Center.   MPTC president Bonnie Baerwald says part of the […]