Another quick moving storm system will roll through the Northwoods Tuesday morning, bringing a small chance for light showers and sprinkles in the morning, with another round of showers and possibly a thundershower later this afternoon. Temperatures will get a small boost for Tuesday afternoon, with highs middle 60s north, to the lower 70s south.
By Associated Press, Wyatt Heller and Stella Porter
The bill came after a year of discussion with state, local and federal officials about how to save the Verso mill, which closed in June 2020 after more than a hundred years of operation. It employed 900 people.
In Wisconsin, COVID-19 restrictions have mostly relaxed across the state, but the truth is those measures of masks, social distancing and sanitizing have also given people a break from other respiratory illnesses.
Wisconsin’s seniors were openly critical of coach Greg Gard during a late-season team meeting that was secretly recorded and later sent to a newspaper.
The Wisconsin Assembly plans to vote on a bill that would create a new $10 million grant program to help communities clean up contamination from “forever chemicals” known as PFAS but would ban them from suing those responsible for the pollution.
About 36 million American families on July 15 will start receiving monthly checks from the IRS, as part of the expanded Child Tax Credit. Eligible families will receive up to $1,800 in cash through December — however, the tax credit has a complication that may prompt some families to opt out.
Sheriff’s officials say a second child pulled from Lake Michigan in Racine over the weekend has died. Seventeen-year-old Yaadwinder Singh was unresponsive when he was rescued from the lake at North Beach Saturday.
One of the complaints allege Chemtool was negligent, created a nuisance and failed to exercise reasonable care that would have prevented the explosion.
Grail, a health company, just announced the creation of a multi-cancer early detection blood test that can detect more than 50 types of cancer early on, including pancreatic cancer which is normally diagnosed at stage 3 or 4 because it is so hard to detect.
Beaming Inc. is teaming up with UW-Madison on a program called "Riding in the Moment". It will offer equine-assisted therapeutic riding for people living with dementia.
southern Brown County community is rallying around one of its volunteer firefighters. A few months ago, 27-year old Dillon Steinfeldt had surgery to remove a brain tumor and he is now undergoing radiation, with chemotherapy on the horizon.
More than 45% of eligible people in the United States are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, but many are wondering how long that protection will last. Unfortunately, the answer still remains unknown.
A judge has delayed his decision on whether to charge a Wisconsin police officer who killed a man sitting in a parked car. Joseph Mensah shot Jay Anderson Jr. in 2016.
School advocates are complaining that the Republican-authored state budget doesn’t commit enough state aid to education even though the federal government is set to pump billions in coronavirus relief aid into Wisconsin districts. The GOP-controlled budget committee gave schools $128 million more over the next two years.
U.S. Republican Sen. Ron Johnson from Wisconsin joined in a Juneteenth Day celebration in his home state only to see his speech drowned out by a chorus of boos.
Few details have been released but, authorities say the 86-year-old Marshfield woman and her 63-year-old son, once the subject of a missing persons report, have been located.
Owners of a group of restaurants, hotels and bars in Eau Claire have eliminated tipping and have raised their minimum wage to $16 an hour. The Pablo Group says it’s following a trend that aims to improve pay equity for all employees.
Quinn Lamers was 7 years old the first time he saw a Montana Grizzlies football game. A decade later, he'll become one of them on the gridiron, thanks to a lot of talent, and a little help from a family member who re-wrote the record books there.
The pandemic left Marshfield’s Dairy Breakfast in a sticky situation last year, but this year, the line stacked up faster than the maple syrup could come out.
Several Wisconsinites have signed on to a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state ban on selling homemade food items. That suit recently cleared a major hurdle.
