Category Archives: Local News

A 69-year-old drunk driver was arrested for his 14th OWI Monday night, the Columbia County Sheriff's Office said Tuesday. A deputy pulled over Robert Dolgner, from Pardeeville, in the Town of Lowville...

On Tuesday, U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) introduced the Farmland Security Act of 2025 to build on their work to safeguard rural communities and protect American farmlan...

On Friday at 1:22 P.M., 51-year-old James Birchman of Fennimore, was driving east on Green River Rd in Mt. Ida Township, when he met another vehicle on a curve. The other driver was 17-year-old Hunter...

On Friday at 8:51 A.M., the Grant County Sheriff's Office responded to a one vehicle crash on Studenberg Rd in Watterstown Township. During the course of the investigation, the driver, 26-year-old Col...

The University of Dubuque has purchased a building in downtown Dubuque to locate its proposed John and Alice Butler College of Osteopathic Medicine. The site at 500 Main Street signals an ongoing comm...

On Tuesday Attorney General Josh Kaul joined a coalition of 23 attorneys general in filing an amicus brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to act to protect a key provision of the Affordable Care Act (A...

The American Red Cross urges the public to give blood or platelets now to help combat the significant weather impact on blood donations this winter. People of all blood types - especially those with t...

The US National Weather Service of La Crosse Wisconsin is holding their free weather spotter training again. Grant County Emergency Management will be in Fennimore on March 24th, 6:30pm at the Southwe...

This week is Flood Safety Awareness Week. Grant County experiences more flash flooding than any other county in Wisconsin, with 38 recorded events since 2006. A Facebook post from the Grant County Eme...

Deadlines are approaching for ice fisherman to remove their permanent ice shanties. The Wisconsin DNR sent out a reminder Tuesday of the dates by which shanties should be removed, based on their respe...