Month: November 2019

A snowstorm is making Thanksgiving travel a mess in southern Minnesota, northern and western Wisconsin and other parts of the Upper Midwest.  National Weather Service meteorologist Cameron Miller says more than a foot of snow is forecast for some areas of northern Wisconsin.  "A broad swath of 8-12 inches and then the closer you get to the border of Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, looking between a foot to 18 inches there.  A […]

With a winter storm impacting Thanksgiving travel, Ready Wisconsin is encouraging anyone traveling this holiday season to make sure they are watching the weather and accounting for it in their planning.  Emergency Management’s Andrew Beckett says motorists heading to northern and northwest Wisconsin or to the Twin Cities to visit relatives need to be extra careful.  Beckett says travelers can check with 511 Wisconsin for the latest traffic and road conditions […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin gun deer license sales are about on par with last year.  The state’s nine-day gun deer season opened Saturday. The state Department of Natural Resources released figures Tuesday that show as of midnight Sunday hunters had purchased 555,227 licenses that allow them to kill deer with a firearm across the state’s multiple deer seasons.  That’s down about 1.5% from 2018. Data from that year shows that as […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents has selected UW-Stout’s next chancellor.   The regents said Tuesday they’ve hired Katherine Frank, the vice president of academic innovation and an English professor at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Washington. She will replace former UW-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer, who retired in August.  Frank will become Stout’s first female chancellor when she assumes the post on March 1. She’ll make […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Gov. Tony Evers has signed into law a bipartisan bill that makes Wisconsin’s hemp-growing program permanent, while bringing it into line with new federal regulations.  Evers signed the bill Tuesday. It is designed to help the state’s popular hemp program continue to grow as it enters its second year.  The new law aligns Wisconsin’s program with new requirements under the 2018 federal Farm Bill, while also allowing Wisconsin […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Milwaukee Common Council approved a ban on single-use plastic straws, but customers can still get them by request.  The ordinance passed Tuesday on a 13-2 vote and now goes to Mayor Tom Barrett for his signature. His office said Barrett “supports the concept” but needs to review the ordinance before deciding in the coming week whether to sign it.  The ordinance says that beginning April 14, 2020, restaurants […]

A Beaver Dam man is going to prison in connection with a fight and threats to police.  Dodge County Circuit judge Martin De Vries sentenced 41 year old Dale Lengling to  a year and a half in prison and three years extended supervision for battery, threats to a law enforcement officer and bail jumping.  Police say Lengling was involved in an altercation with another man at a Beaver Dam residence in May.   According to […]

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Capitol Police have taken a man into custody after he apparently flipped over a huge, ornate table that separates the justices from attorneys in the state Supreme Court chamber.  The incident began Tuesday afternoon when a loud crash echoed through the Capitol. Officers sprinted into the Supreme Court chamber to find the table lying on its side, the tabletop broken and separated from the base. The […]