Flu is hanging on in the U.S., intensifying in some areas of the country after weeks of an apparent national decline. Fond du Lac County Public Health Officer Kim Mueller says flu has not peaked yet locally or in Wisconsin, but is getting close. According to the CDC there has been a continued decline in flu hospitalizations, although flu-like illnesses seem to be proliferating in the Midwest. Last week those illnesses were […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Republican prosecutor is asking the Wisconsin Supreme Court to decide whether state law bans abortions before the case goes through any lower appellate courts. The U.S. Supreme Court's 2022 decision to overturn Roe v. Wade reactivated an 1849 law that conservatives argue banned abortion. A Dane County judge said last summer that the legal language in the ban doesn't use the term “abortion” so the […]
FOND DU LAC, WI – The Fond du Lac Dock Spiders are pleased to once again accept applications for the annual "Share the Glove" grant, courtesy of the Northwoods League Foundation. Entering its seventh year of the “Share the Glove” initiative, the Northwoods League Foundation has awarded annual grants of Rawlings baseball and softball equipment to youth organizations in communities in the league’s team markets. The Northwoods League Foundation is a […]
Fond du Lac, Wisc.: Moraine Park Technical College will host Future Fair, a community-wide job and college fair, on Tuesday, March 5 from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. at the Fond du Lac Campus Conference Center. In total, 76 employers and college exhibitors will be in attendance. Employers will showcase their businesses and recruit for internships and job opportunities, and the educational institutions will be there to discuss various transfer […]
One person was treated for smoke inhalation following a house fire in Fond du Lac county. Shortly after 6:30pm Tuesday firefighters were called to a residence on Eagle Road and quickly extinguished the fire. The fire is believed to have started in a pile of clothes near an electrical wire. A 75 year old woman was transported to the hospital and treated for smoke inhalation. The Eden Fire Department was assisted at the […]
The state Department of Justice has identified the North Fond du Lac Police officer and subject involved in a deadly shooting following a traffic stop on Interstate 41 earlier this month. The incident happened Friday evening February 2nd when North Fond du Lac police sergeant Bryce LaLuzerne attempted to stop a vehicle on 41 and a pursuit ensued. The chase ended when the vehicle ran over stop sticks near County Highway Z in Winnebago […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to reject four of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers' appointees, including a member of the state's natural resources policy board and a former lieutenant governor who was to serve on a hospital governing board. That brings to 13 the number of Evers appointees that the Senate has rejected, which has the effect of firing them. Evers immediately named replacements while slamming the Republican […]
The Dodge County Sheriff says the death of an elderly man and his wife is a murder-suicide. Shortly after 6am Monday Columbus police were called to Prairie Ridge Health where a man had shot and killed himself in the emergency room waiting area. Dodge County Sheriff's deputies conducted a welfare check and found the body of the man's wife at their town of Elba home. Dodge County Sheriff Dale Schmidt says an investigation has determined […]
Fond du Lac's Moraine Park Technical College is celebrating a newly constructed Automation, Innovation and Robotics Center. The AIR Center is the first of four referendum projects approved by voters-updating Moraine Park's Advanced Manufacturing and Trades area. MPTC president Bonnie Baerwald says the project is expected to be fully completed this summer with students first utilizing the space in the fall. "Back in 2020 we realized that automation and robotics was really […]