A Wisconsin judge has ruled that state law does not allow the use of mobile absentee voting sites, siding with Republicans who had challenged Racine’s use of a voting van that traveled around the city in 2022. Republicans opposed the…
You have probably seen one of the many viral videos: Someone puts on a pair of normal-looking glasses, and they gasp, or break down in tears. Colorblind, for the first time they are seeing the range of contrasts in the…
A task force that Assembly Speaker Robin Vos created last summer to bolster Wisconsin's response to human trafficking finished its work Wednesday by introducing a slate of bills that would increase awareness of the issue, impose tougher punishments for soliciting…
Proponents of the effort to oust Vos, R-Rochester, now have 60 days to collect just under 7,000 signatures to force a June election on the top Assembly Republican's future.
Alabama says it plans to replace the 58-year-old inmate’s breathing air with nitrogen gas, quickly rendering him unconscious and killing him within minutes.
For the third year in a row, a record number of airline passengers’ guns were intercepted by airport security officers before those weapons could make it aboard a flight.
A 44-year-old Altoona man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for child sex crimes committed in Monroe County.
The Northeast is cleaning up after a storm slammed the region with rain, flooding and fierce winds as part of a bout of violent weather that battered most of the U.S. The storm started Tuesday night and is moving out…
A Florida deputy risked getting “shredded” when he picked up an injured bobcat — what happened next left social media followers slack-jawed.
A seven-months pregnant woman and her cat were rescued from a vehicle upside down in a creek Tuesday near Independence.
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The Sparta Board of Education this week unanimously approved a $750,000 annual operational referendum question for the April 2 ballot.
The body of a kayaker reported missing on the Black River in Jackson County has been recovered.
The village of Trempealeau is asking for the public's help to locate a missing person.
Pregnant women should get a new vaccine against RSV between 32 weeks and 37 weeks gestation, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services said.
We had over 300 people stop by the library at the end of December to play our life-sized Candy Land board game.
A major storm has drenched the Northeast and slammed it with fierce winds, knocking out power to hundreds of thousands. That's followed a bout of violent weather ranging from snowstorms to tornado reports in other areas of the country. Parts…
The De Soto Public Library is handicap accessible thanks to a $20,000 American Library Association (ALA) Rural Libraries Grant it received in June of 2023.
La Crosse County will have a contested judicial race this spring, when incumbent Mark A. Huesmann will be challenged by Candice C.M. Tlustosch.
Southern Wisconsin’s benign winter ended this week with the biggest snowstorm of the season, and more is on the way, according to forecasters.
For several months now we’ve been examining the 1878 Vernon County plat map, and specifically the business directories that form the border of the original wall map. You can see a copy of this map hanging on the wall at…
About a teaspoon of the Madison doctor's ashes were slated to land on the moon Feb. 23, aboard a capsule on the Vulcan rocket that took off Monday.
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“I don’t see how you can fill negative-margin scripts forever and stay in business,” one pharmacist said of the reimbursements.
Today's other top stories include record-breaking cold ahead of the Iowa caucuses, CES 2024 updates, and a new summer meals program for kids.