MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Leaders of Wisconsin's public broadcasting system say budget cuts proposed by Gov. Scott Walker could put some shows on the chopping block. Walker's 2015 to 2017 spending plan includes a $2.5 million cut in state funding each year for the Educational Communications Board. The ECB spends about $19 million a year, and buys national programming for some stations and operates infrastructure for most stations outside […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is in London for a trade mission that comes on the heels of a similar trip last week by another potential Republican presidential candidate, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie. Walker's trip runs Monday through Friday. It's his third overseas trade-related trip as governor and comes as he's tries to bolster his foreign policy credentials. The trip will be highlighted by a Wednesday […]
Two men, from Oakfield and Berlin were injured in separate snowmobile crashes on Lake Winnebago over the weekend. The Van Dyne Fire Department transported a 29 year old Oakfield man to shore after his snowmobile hit an ice shove about a half mile northeast of Wendt’s on the Lake Saturday afternoon. He was transported to the hospital with a serious leg injury. A 54 year old Berlin man was seriously […]
An Eden woman accused of stabbing her boyfriend has pleaded not guilty. to charges including first-degree reckless injury. Twenty seven year old Tina R. Morrow entered the plea to charges of reckless injury and battery during an arraignment hearing in Fond du Lac County Circuit Court. She is being held in the Fond du Lac County Jail on $100,000 cash bond. She is accused of stabbing her boyfriend in the […]
The northeast Regional Director for the Wisconsin Better Business Bureau Says Anthem customers or former Anthem customers need to take action now to ensure their identity is protected following the hacking attack against the nation’s second largest insurer. Susan Bach says the hacking attack against Anthem is much worse than the recent hacking attacks against Target or Home Depot. Bach says the first step is placing a credit freeze on […]
Fond du Lac County public health and school officials are trying to get the word out to parents to make sure their kids are immunized for the measles. Fond du lac school officials mailed a letter to parents last week. Fond du Lac County Public Health nurse Joyce Mann says the message comes in the wake of the largest measles outbreak in the United States in more than a decade. […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's tax-collecting agency says it's on high alert for any fraudulent filings of income tax returns via TurboTax software. Intuit, the company behind TurboTax, resumed filings of state tax returns Friday evening with increased anti-fraud measures, a day after halting the process when some states reported a rise in fraudulent filings. TuboTax filings have not been interrupted in Wisconsin, however. Revenue Secretary Richard Chandler says the […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin students will take a new kind of standardized test next month. The online test is expected to be more rigorous than the traditional pencil-and-paper exam it's replacing. But a technical glitch means school districts will get a scaled back version instead of a more complex system that isn't working properly. As a result, the Department of Public Instruction says, it won't pay the full $11.1 […]
It's not enough to be called the Sturgeon Spearing Capital of the World. Starting Monday, Lake Winnebago will be teeming with activity below the surface and on the ice. Fisherman can expect a larger sturgeon harvest now that the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources increased the cap for 2015, and on the ice, racers from around the world will be competing in the 2015 World Ice and Snow Sailing […]