Category Archives: Local News

SW Wisconsin business leaders awaiting childcare funding changes
Business leaders in southwest Wisconsin are eagerly awaiting potential changes to state childcare funding as lawmakers prepare to work on the upcoming biennial budget. In his State of the State addres...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 04, 2025

Prairie du Chien schools set referendum timeline
Last week, the Prairie du Chien Board of Education conducted a working session to discuss new information for the impending operating referendum. The school district presented a timeline to disperse r...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Applications open for public school open enrollment
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction announced the online application period for the Public School Open Enrollment Program for the 2025-26 school year opens today. Beginning today and runnin...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025 GotCredit / CC

Grant County Master Gardeners and Friends host 'Plant Parent 101'
The Grant County Master Gardeners and Friends group is sponsoring a free Zoom presentation Feb. 20 at 6:30 p.m. on Indoor Plants. During "Plant Parent 101" participants will learn the basics of becomi...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Dubuque man arrested for domestic assault with weapon
Police said a Dubuque man displayed a knife and strangled a woman in a domestic assault Friday night. 27-year-old Stanislaus J. Charlery of Dubuque was arrested at 10:24 p.m. Friday on Caledonia Place...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Warrant arrest in Dodgeville
On Saturday at 8:10 AM The Iowa County Communications Center received a request from the Wisconsin Department of Corrections to detain an individual with a warrant issued for a parole violation. Iowa ...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Ridgeway man arrested for OWI in Dodgeville
On Saturday at 1:20 AM Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies received a report of a car sitting at stoplight for an extended period of time on Highway 23 and County Rd YZ in the City of Dodgeville. As a resu...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

No injuries reported in Willow Springs accident
On Friday at 6:30 AM Lafayette County Deputies responded to County Highway G, Willow Springs Township for a one vehicle accident. 35-year-old Blake A Wedig of Belmont lost control of his vehicle, left...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Local unemployment rates mixed
Unemployment rates were mixed in local counties in December, according to recently released reports. Dubuque County's unemployment rate was 3.2% in December, down from 3.3% in November but up from the...
Courtney Chaffee Feb 03, 2025

Name released from fatal Sauk County accident
The name of the driver killed in a fatal Sauk County crash has been released. 49-year-old Krista Berkowski of Reedsburg died Wednesday after she failed to negotiate a curve and left the roadway near C...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025





