Month: August 2023

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Republicans are proposing a bill that would do away with work permit requirements for 14- and 15-year-olds in the state. Currently, kids ages 14 and 15 need to verify their ages with the Department of Workforce Development and get a parent's permission to get a job. That requirement would be eliminated under a bill released Friday by three GOP state lawmakers. The proposal comes as […]

The Dodge County Sheriff's Office is investigating after a man involved in a domestic incident in Waupun shot and killed himself.  Shortly before 7:30pm Friday Waupun Police were called to a residence in the 100 block of West Brown Street for a report of a domestic disturbance.  A preliminary investigation shows subsequent to officers arriving on scene a man involved in the incident took his own life.  The Sheriff's Office says no officers were involved […]

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services Public Health Madison & Dane County have confirmed the first human case of West Nile virus in a Wisconsin resident this year.  The individual is a resident of Dane County. Cases of West Nile virus have also been reported in three horses in Wisconsin, and several mosquito pools. The horse cases were located in Dunn and Clark counties, and the positive mosquitoes were from Milwaukee and Lafayette counties.

UPDATE: Advisory for PM2.5 & Ozone Counties: Statewide Comments: Canadian wildfire smoke has remained evident across Wisconsin Thursday night through Friday morning. However, surface concentrations continue to be lower than initially anticipated. Southerly winds will increase in magnitude Friday night into Saturday, preventing additional transport of smoke into Wisconsin from the north. Concerns for smoke-enhanced ozone have also decreased with the lower levels of observed smoke, but conditions will continue […]

BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — A man who died Tuesday after he fell from a bluff while hiking in a Wisconsin state park has been identified as a 42-year-old from Indiana. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources said Thursday that the Sauk County coroner identified the man as 42-year-old Jason Gillum, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The DNR says Gillum died when he fell 49 feet at Devil’s Lake State Park’s West […]

A fifth defendant arrested for election fraud in Fond du Lac County is going to jail.   Edward Malnar has pleaded guilty to felony Election Fraud, voting in Michigan and Wisconsin in the November 2020 election and obstructing an officer.   Fond du Lac judge Laura Lavey sentenced Malnar to 15 days in jail and a $3500 fine.   Before handing down the  sentence Judge Lavey credited the defendant’s military service in Vietnam but said […]

Every summer Fond du Lac families participate in a back to school supply give away.  Event organizer Jason Porter says more than two thousand kids  signed up for this year's event.  Fond du Lac School District Equity Coordinator Terrance Lofton says with the start of school right around the corner the program is greatly needed and appreciated.  Distribution Day was held Saturday at the Fond du Lac Boys and Girls […]

Several Fond du Lac County Highway reconstruction projects are ongoing heading into the final weeks of August.   Fond du Lac County Highway commissioner Tom Janke says projects on state Highways 45 and 26 are underway.  Janke says work is also continuing on County Highways SS, B, Y, E and East Pioneer Road between Highway V to Martin Avenue.   Meanwhile, Janke says some residents who live in the area are asking the county to […]

Wisconsin's unemployment rate is up slightly in July.   The state Department of Workforce Development say the state's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.6 percent in July, up from a record low of 2.4 percent in April and May.  Wisconsin's total nonfarm jobs hit a new high of three million, seven-thousand-200, an increase of 4,700 over the previous month.  The national unemployment rate was 3.5 percent last month.