Local News

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers says his executive budget will include millions of additional dollars to help Wisconsin veterans with their mental health and educational needs. The governor is set to release his full spending plan to the Legislature on Feb. 15. His office announced Thursday that the plan will include half a million dollars to evaluate post-Sept. 11 veterans' needs; an additional $1 million annually for county […]

Sturgeon Spectacular gets underway Friday in Fond du Lac and continues through the weekend.   Destination Lake Winnebago Region president Craig Molitor says the event has grown tremendously since it was launched eight years ago.  Molitor says there are events at Lakeside Park and downtown Fond du Lac.  Molitor says the state snow sculpting competition is the most popular event of the weekend.  Sturgeon Spectacular is held in conjunction with the […]

Some schools closed early and law enforcement responded to numerous vehicle run-offs after a winter storm dumped several inches of heavy, wet snow across southern Wisconsin Thursday.  A Winter Storm Warning or Weather Advisory were in effect Thursday for several counties throughout southern Wisconsin.  Strong wind gusts  in excess of 30 miles an hour made travel difficult.

A Fond du Lac family medicine physician says local health care providers are on alert,  but so far have not seen any cases of pediatric invasive group A strep infections.   The Centers for Disease Control  and Prevention has issued a Health Advisory to notify clinicians and public health authorities of a recent increase in the virus.   SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac Family Medicine physician, Dr. Taha El Shahat, says strep […]

Area high school seniors who plan to pursue a career in health care are invited to apply for scholarships offered by several SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac volunteer-based groups.   SSM Health Volunteers: Four $2,000 scholarships will be awarded by the Volunteer Board to eligible students who reside in the SSM Health Greater Fond du Lac service area and plan to pursue a bachelor’s degree in preparation for a health […]

The Fond du Lac School District has set 5 year-old Kindergarten enrollment dates for children who will be attending during the 2023-2024 school year. Enrollment will begin on Monday, April 17, 2023, and will continue through Friday, April 21, 2023.   During the week of April 17th , parents and guardians of prospective kindergartners can enroll their child between 9:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. in person. Parents and guardians are also asked […]

DeFOREST, Wis. (AP) — Fresh from his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden rallied supporters in Wisconsin on Wednesday, preparing for an expected reelection announcement this spring and trying to shore up the backing of working-class voters who have edged away from Democrats in recent years.  “Fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere,” Biden said at a training facility run by the Laborers’ International Union of North America. […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers wants to make it more difficult for the Republican-controlled Legislature to block the purchasing of land by conservation groups and the state. On Wednesday he proposed increasing the thresholds for stopping such projects. Evers says he wants to repeal the requirement that all projects north of Highway 64 be subject to legislative review. He also wants to double the threshold of legislative […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An Illinois man has filed a federal lawsuit alleging an off-duty police officer improperly put his knee into his 12-year-old daughter's neck during a fight in a Wisconsin middle school last year. Jerrel Perez, of Zion, Illinois, filed the lawsuit Monday in federal court in Milwaukee against the officer, Shawn Guetschow, the city of Kenosha and its school district. Perez alleges that Guetschow used excessive force […]