Category Archives: Local News
Wisconsin DOT warns of roads buckling due to extreme heat
A reminder from the Wisconsin DOT: extremely high temps like those forecast this weekend means the risk of pavement buckling increases. When weather changes from cool to very hot very quickly, slabs o...
Jun 20, 2025
Registration open for youth fishing club in Jo Daviess County
University of Illinois Extension is launching a Fishing Spin Club for youth entering grades 6 through 12. The program is designed to introduce youth to the fundamentals of fishing while encouraging ou...
Jun 19, 2025
DATCP announces $450K settlement with CenturyLink over price misrepresentation allegations
Internet provider CenturyLink will pay Wisconsin $450,000 to settle allegations that it misrepresented its monthly prices, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) announce...
Jun 19, 2025
Aging and Disability Resource Center restructuring to county level
Despite a restructuring of the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Southwest Wisconsin, the agency's county-level leaders are not anticipating an impact to services. Green County recently announce...
Jun 19, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Hollandale woman arrested following domestic disturbance
On Wednesday at 6:51 pm the Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a disturbance that had taken place at a residence on County Road F in Moscow Township. Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies...
Jun 19, 2025
Forecasters issue extreme heat watch tri-state area this weekend
Forecasters have issued an extreme heat watch for a large swath of the tri-state area this weekend as temperatures are expected to soar. The extreme heat watch is effective from noon Saturday, June 21...
Jun 19, 2025
Wisconsin DNR to hold 2 Grant County events highlighting invasive species
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will mark Invasive Species Awareness Weekend with a pair of events in Grant County. Volunteers will remove two invasive species, honeysuckle and burdock, ...
Jun 19, 2025
SW Wisconsin tourism saw slight dip in 2024
Southwest Wisconsin leaders say weather was largely to blame for a slight dip in tourism economic impact last year that bucked the statewide trend of continued growth. Wisconsin's total economic impac...
Jun 19, 2025
Dubuque man arrested for threatening someone with a sharpened broom handle
Police said a man threatened another with the sharpened end of a broomstick during a disturbance in Dubuque. 19-year-old Adriel M. Wheeless of Dubuque was arrested at 11:13 p.m. Monday at his residenc...
Jun 19, 2025
Wisconsin man withdrew thousands from bank account of Dubuque person with dementia
Police said a Wisconsin man withdrew tens of thousands of dollars from a bank account of a person with dementia living in Dubuque. 58-year-old Kenneth P. Klaas of Sun Prairie was arrested at 7:10 a.m....
Jun 19, 2025
