MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Agriculture officials say chronic wasting disease didn’t spread in a captive elk herd after one of its members tested positive last summer. Test results in August confirmed a 6-year-old male elk from the Smoking Gun Elk farm in Burnett County was infected with the disease. The state Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection placed the herd under quarantine. The agency said Wednesday that federal officials killed the remaining five members of the herd on April 23. None of them tested positive for the disease. It wasn’t clear why federal officials chose to kill the remaining elk.
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photo: waupun mayor rohn bishop The Waupun Common Council has postponed action on wage increases for paid on call firefighters and elected officials to get more public input. The council discussed the matter, sometimes heated, at their meeting this week and will take up the issue again at their April 8th meeting. If […]
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A house fire near New Holstein claimed the life of a child. Shortly after 2am Wednesday firefighters were called to the scene on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Road T. A child in the home was pronounced dead at a hospital. The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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