MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Legislature's finance committee is about to kick off a months-long push to revise Gov. Scott Walker's 2015-17 state budget proposal. The committee is set to begin Monday with briefings from a number of state agencies on how the budget would affect them. First up are the Administration, Justice and Corrections departments. Additional agencies are expected to address the committee through Wednesday. The committee likely will […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The co-chairman of the Legislature's finance committee says he wants to see the Milwaukee Bucks' new owners put more of their own money toward a new arena for the team. John Nygren, a Marinette Republican, said Monday that he wants the Bucks to tell legislators exactly how much the project will cost so lawmakers know just how much of the arena the state would fund. He […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — State tax officials in Minnesota and Wisconsin say they're working to reinstate a system that allowed 80,000 people who work across their shared border to file one state income tax return. Under the reciprocity system that began in 1968, Wisconsin made payments to Minnesota to make up for what border-crossing Wisconsin residents would have given to Minnesota in taxes. More people live in Wisconsin and […]
BARABOO, Wis. (AP) — Devil's Lake State Park is officially an historic place. The park was nominated to be listed on the State and National Registers of Historic Places last year and recently won approval by the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Wisconsin Historical Society. Devil's Lake is the second Wisconsin park to be listed. The first was Copper Falls, in Ashland County, which was approved in 2005. […]
BAYFIELD, Wis. (AP) — The ice caves in northwestern Wisconsin are proving very popular again this year. The caves on Lake Superior near the Apostle Islands attracted nearly 12,000 people this weekend. Julie Van Stappen, chief of planning and resource management for the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, says more than 7,000 visited on opening day Saturday and nearly 4,900 on Sunday. Park service officials had warned visitors there is a […]
FOND DU LAC-DODGE-SHEBOYGAN ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 3 AM TO 6 PM CST TUESDAY... .TODAY...SUNNY UNTIL LATE AFTERNOON THEN BECOMING PARTLY SUNNY. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S. WEST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH. .TONIGHT...NOT AS COLD. CLOUDY. SLIGHT CHANCE OF LIGHT SNOW AFTER MIDNIGHT. LIGHT SNOW LIKELY EARLY IN THE MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATION UP TO 1 INCH. NEAR STEADY TEMPERATURE AROUND 20. SOUTH WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH. […]
SHEBOYGAN FALLS, Wis. (AP) — Officials say a teenager was seriously injured after he got caught in a piece of farm machinery in Sheboygan Falls. According to the Sheboygan County Sheriff's Department, the 17-year-old male was working on an auger in a silo late Sunday afternoon when he got caught in the equipment. Department officials arrived at the scene and were able to remove him from the machinery. The teen […]
A million dollar winner in Fond du Lac in the January 31st Powerball drawing has come forward and will be announced late this afternoon. A press conference has been scheduled for 4pm Monday at Korneli’s Prairie Express on East Johnson Street to reveal the winner.
The UW Fond du lac Dean says the university is re-evaluating its decision to hire an Iowa developer to build a new student housing facility on the UW Fond du lac campus. Dean John Short says all options are on the table after Bluffstone asked for a delay on the Fond du lac project following problems at similar projects at the Marshfield and Baraboo schools. The project was slated for […]