The Fond du Lac Transit system is gearing up for back to school. Transit manager Lynn Gilles says this Friday Festival Foods and Fond du lac Area Transit are sponsoring a Free Fare Day. You can ride the city bus all day Friday for free. Gilles says it’s a great day to plan your child’s route to school. "We do a lot of the transport of kids to the schools, […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Agencies who work with domestic abuse victims in Wisconsin say nearly $20 million in new funding is needed to support core services in the next six years. A report from the Governor's Council on Domestic Abuse and End Domestic Abuse Wisconsin details the impact of tight budgets on victim service providers. The report outlines segments of the support system that need more funding, including emergency shelters […]
The Fond du Lac County executive says a preliminary budget does not contain any cuts in programs or staff. The county finance committee held a preliminary discussion on the 2015 county budget at their meeting this week. "We have a good wellness program, its been very successful, we're budgeting a zero increase on our medical insurance again," Buechel told WFDL news. "...the fourth year in a row we've been […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin tax collections are more than $281 million short of estimates, a drop that could require the Legislature to take action to keep the budget in balance. The state Department of Revenue on Thursday released the figures for the fiscal year that ended in June. Those figures show the state collected $281.2 million less than was anticipated by the nonpartisan Legislative Fiscal Bureau in January. That […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack says dairy farmers can begin signing up Sept. 2 for a new program that replaces old subsidies. The program is a kind of insurance that pays farmers when the difference between milk prices and feed prices shrink to a certain level. It replaces a program that paid farmers when milk prices sank too low. Dairy farmers have struggled in recent years even […]
NEWVILLE, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin biologists say the koi herpes virus that's killing thousands of common carp has spread and will continue to do so. Laura Stremick-Thompson, a fisheries biologist at the state Department of Natural Resources, says the die-off started at the Rock River in July, reached Lake Koshkonong last week and will probably arrive in Janesville and Beloit in the next few weeks. The biologist says local residents […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Governor Scott Walker's administration has warned the Forest County Potawatomi tribe that it could lose about 2,000 slot machines if it succeeds in withholding its $25 million annual payment to the state. The Potawatomi say they're withholding the money because the state may end up owing the tribe money if Walker approves the Menominee tribe's proposed Kenosha casino.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The last time President Barack Obama came to Wisconsin to celebrate workers' rights on Labor Day, there was barely a hint of the turmoil that was to come. Union membership has plummeted in Wisconsin over the four years since Obama last attended the labor rally in Milwaukee, thanks to the 2011 law that effectively ended collective bargaining for most public workers.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke won't take the stage with President Barack Obama on Monday when he speaks at a Labor Day rally in Milwaukee. A Burke spokesman says it is not appropriate for Burke to speak at the rally Obama is attending because it is an official White House event and not a campaign rally. Governor Scott Walker also won't be greeting Obama when he […]