Category Archives: Local News

The city of Dubuque is changing how it processes applications for police officers, cutting out the Civil Service Commission and allowing qualified applicants to interview faster. The city also modifie...

Dubuque County voters can submit a request for an absentee ballot for the Nov. 4 city and school election beginning this week, while requests for absentee ballots for the Oct. 4 primary election will ...

Police said a man headbutted a woman during a Dubuque disturbance and left her hospitalized. 29-year-old Robert C. Robey of Dubuque was arrested early Monday morning at his residence on charges of wil...

A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesperson from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US...

The Dubuque Federation of Labor is searching for volunteers to assist with the Labor Day parade on Monday, September 1. Volunteers are needed to help make sure spectators stay out of the street and ba...

Fifteen young people from across Wisconsin are suing the Wisconsin State Legislature and Public Service Commission over climate change. The plaintiffs, who range in age from 8 to 17, hail from across ...

The Iowa County Sheriff's Department is reminding residents to slow down. At 70 mph, it takes over 400 feet to stop - more than a football field. As we head into the busy holiday weekend, the Iowa Cou...

The Iowa County Sheriff's Department has announced their weekly call numbers for August 17 - August 23. Over the past week, the Iowa County 911 Communication Center handled a total of 529 calls for se...

Like so many campuses in the past week, UW-Madison police had a call about an active shooter threat on campus and thanks to preparation, they were able to determine it was false, before panic spread t...

Early Saturday morning Dubuque police arrested 26-year-old Scott D. Coulthard of Readstown, Wis., in the 900 block of West Locust Street on charges of operating while intoxicated and person ineligible...