MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Secretary of State Doug La Follette says budget cuts to his office are "totally unthought out nonsense." The Legislature's budget-writing Joint Finance Committee voted Wednesday to cut his office by more than half a million dollars and eliminate two of three fulltime positions. La Follette says the move will cripple his office and leave him unable to process documents as required by law. He says it […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A proposal that would have hid University of Wisconsin research from public view has been removed from Gov. Scott Walker's budget, making it more difficult to pass the Legislature this session. The Republican co-chairs of the Joint Finance Committee on Wednesday announced that the item was being taken out of Walker's spending proposal because it is a policy decision, not budget-related. Open records advocates had urged […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A federal judge has denied an attempt by voters to intervene and stop a lawsuit brought by Wisconsin Supreme Court Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson challenging the timing of a recently approved constitutional amendment. The amendment approved by voters April 7 allows justices on the Supreme Court to choose who will be the chief, rather than have it go to the most senior member. Abrahamson sued, arguing […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Scott Walker's proposal changing who does property assessments in Wisconsin has been removed from his budget. Co-chairs of the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee said Wednesday that Walker's proposal putting counties, rather than municipalities, in charge of doing assessments had been removed.
In conjunction with the Wis. Department of Natural Resources, the National Weather Service has issued a Red Flag Warning for today until 8 p.m. for the following counties: Green Lake, Dane, Barron, Polk, St. Croix, Dunn, Chippewa, Pepin, Pierce, Taylor, Rusk, Marathon, Portage, Waushara, Waupaca, Marquette, Columbia, Sauk, Adams, Juneau, Wood, Jackson, Monroe, Vernon, Richland, Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Lafayette, La Crosse, Trempealeau, Buffalo, Burnett, Washburn, Douglas, Sawyer, Clark, Eau Claire […]
Two people were transported to the hospital with what were described as non life-threatening injuries following a two vehicle accident in Fond du Lac. The collision between a car and pick-up happened shortly before 11:30am at the intersection of South Main and 9th Streets.
(L-R ) Jason Padgett, WFDL news director Greg Stensland, Dr. Darold Treffert on AM 1170 WFDL's Between the Lines program Marian University will be hosting the 8th annual Dr. Darold A. Treffert Lecture series on April 15 at 7:00 p.m. in the Stayer Center Auditorium. Jason Padgett will serve as the lecture’s keynote speaker, and will speak on the topic of acquired savant syndrome. Padgett is a mathematics savant and […]
The village of Rosendale wants to sever its ties with the Lakeside Municipal Court, but electing a new judge to run their own municipal court may have to wait. Village board president Duane Ciske says the village sent a letter to the municipal court in January indicating their plans to drop out of the intra-governmental agreement. "We feel the court has gotten too big. We don't feel we have […]
Fond du lac firefighters were busy Tuesday evening extinguishing several brush fires on the southside of town. Fire chief Pete O’Leary says firefighters were called to an area near the train tracks at Pioneer and Hickory Roads shortly after 5pm. A MABAS Box Alarm was called to bring several brush trucks and personnel to assist with firefighting efforts. All fires extinguished without any structures being compromised. Railway traffic was suspended […]