Category Archives: Local News

Cell phone crash alert leads to OWI arrest
On Sunday at 12:02 AM, the Iowa County Communicatons Center received an automated alert from a cell phone provider reporting a severe crash. Deputies from the Iowa County Sheriff's Department, along w...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Multiple drug arrests in Crawford County
Crawford County Law Enforcement made multiple arrests in two separate traffic stops last week, both involving methamphetamine-related offenses. The first incident occurred Tuesday, April 29 at 1:11 AM...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Wisconsin leads the nation in cranberry production
Wisconsin is the nation's top cranberry producer for the 30th straight year. According to the Wisconsin Cranberry Board's harvest report, the state produced a little more than 6 million barrels of cra...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Spongy moth treatments begin this month
The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection is beginning its annual spongy moth treatment. Small airplanes are going to spray a natural soil bacteria that kills spongy moth ...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Josh Schoemann announces bid for governor
Washington County Executive Josh Schoemann announced his campaign as governor of Wisconsin. Schoemann declared his campaign at a Elderberry Manor event venue near his home outside West Bend. He is a A...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Missing Reedsburg woman found alive 62 years later
Sixty-two years ago, Audrey Backeberg disappeared from Reedsburg after reportedly hitchhiking with her family's babysitter and catching a bus to Indianapolis. Nobody ever knew where she went or what h...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Grant County identifies teen killed in car crash
The person who died after allegedly stealing a vehicle out of Sauk County and driving to Grant County has been identified by the Grant County Sheriff's Office as a Madison teenager. 19-year-old Preach...
Courtney Chaffee May 06, 2025

Wisconsin Supreme Court suspends investigation into leak
The Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday suspended its investigation into the leaking of a draft order in a case that could enshrine abortion rights in the state, saying the leak was likely deliberate...
Courtney Chaffee May 01, 2025 Blogtrepreneur / CC
$1M cash bond set for woman accused of killing her mother in Blue Mounds
A $1 million cash bond was set for a woman accused of killing her mother in Blue Mounds, online court records show. Sierra Schoonover was charged with first-degree intentional homicide, stemming from ...
Courtney Chaffee May 01, 2025

Longtime gaming industry leader hired to lead Dubuque casino, DRA
A longtime leader in the gaming and hospitality industry will helm a Dubuque casino. The DRA executive board of directors today announced that Anthony Williams has been hired to become the new preside...
Courtney Chaffee May 01, 2025





