MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants to ask wolf hunters and trappers to help the agency gather more information about wounds the animals have suffered. According to DNR documents, the agency wants to ask hunters and trappers to register their kills before skinning them. A federal wildlife specialist would observe the skinning and collect data about trauma the animal has suffered. Animal rights advocates have […]
CHICAGO (AP) — The Obama administration announced a new 5-year plan for the Great Lakes on Wednesday that will accelerate efforts to address toxic pollution, invasive species and farm runoff and restore plant and wildlife habitat. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Gina McCarthy released the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's action plan at a meeting of Great Lakes mayors in Chicago, saying it is a roadmap for federal agencies to target […]
MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce says it will hold a wedding expo for same-sex couples in anticipation of gay marriage becoming legal in Wisconsin. A federal judge declared Wisconsin's ban on gay marriage unconstitutional in a June decision upheld by a federal appeals court this month. State attorneys are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take the case. LGBT Chamber Executive Director Jason Rae says couples […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Unemployment fell in every Wisconsin city and county last month. The state Department of Workforce Development reports today that unemployment dropped in all of the 32 largest cities and in all 72 counties in August compared with July. The state's overall unemployment rate in July was 5.6 percent, the lowest it's been since 2008.
The local unemployment rate is down in the latest reporting period. The city Fond du Lac’s unemployment rate in August stands at 5.9 percent, down from 6.7 percent in July. In Fond du Lac County the jobless rate dropped six-tenths of a percent to 4.9 percent in August. In Dodge County the August unemployment rate stands at 5.4 percent…down from six percent the month before.
Investigators say a Fond du Lac woman was intoxicated when she slammed into a Fond du lac police squad car Tuesday night. Sheriff’s captain Rick Olig says the crash happened shortly after 8pm Tuesday at the intersection of Macy and Second Streets. Officer Jarid Pfalzgraf, 24 years old, and the driver of the other car 44 year old Nairobi Hull of Fond du Lac were transported to St. Agnes […]
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Waukesha County judge has dismissed a lawsuit that asks that ballots for the November election be redesigned. Circuit Judge James Kieffer said Wednesday the lawsuit brought by the campaign committee for state Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, both Republicans, was not properly filed. Kieffer says the law requires that a complaint first be filed with the Government Accountability Board, not […]
The Republican candidate for the 6th District congressional seat brought his campaign to Fond du Lac Tuesday. State senator Glenn Grothman was presented with an award from the Associated Builders and Contractors of Wisconsin for his votes in the legislature on behalf of the construction industry. Grothman says he coauthored the Commercial Building Code legislation designed to simplify and streamline construction regulations. Ahern Gross Plumbing of Fond du Lac […]
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A conservative investigative group is accusing Democratic attorney general hopeful Susan Happ of going easy on a sex offender. Happ currently serves as Jefferson County's district attorney. Media Trackers issued a press release today saying court records show Happ's office charged Anthony Hodan in 2009 with two counts of sexual assault of a child under 16 but later reduced the charges to one count of third-degree […]