Category Archives: Local News

Dickeyville woman cited for Potosi hit and run
Just before 8:00am on Thursday the Grant County Sheriff's Office was notified of damage to multiple mailboxes on East Street, in the Village of Potosi, which was reported to have occurred overnight. A...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025

Commemorative O.E. Gray bricks available
As the former O.E. Gray School is being demolished to make way for the new Fire Facility, the public is invited to take home a piece of its history. Bricks from the school are currently available on a...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025

No injuries in Linden brush fire
On Thursday just after 2 PM The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of an out-of-control brush fire near County Road J and Avenell Road in Linden Township. Emergency personnel from mul...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025 Mahesh Kularatne / CC

Student from Abundant Life Christian School shooting left the hospital
One of the students hurt in the Abundant Life Christian School shooting last month was released from American Family Children's Hospital Thursday and is at home recovering, a UW Health spokesperson sa...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025 GotCredit / CC

Iowa house bans new casinos in the state for five years
Thursday afternoon, Iowa lawmakers continued with their flurry of action to pass a five-year moratorium on new casino licenses. House members, led by the Republican majority, approved the ban 68-31. C...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025
Woman charged in connection with fatal Clayton County crash
A woman has been charged in connection with a fatal crash in Clayton County last year. 63-year-old Susan Steve of Elkport, Iowa, was arrested earlier this month on charges of homicide by vehicle -- op...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 31, 2025

UW-Platteville leaders launch 6-year strategic plan
Maintaining financial health and weathering enrollment declines are among the priorities of a 2025-2031 strategic plan the University of Wisconsin-Platteville released this week. The launch of the pla...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 30, 2025

Area man charged with reckless homicide in connection with fatal 2022 crash
An area man has been charged with homicide after authorities said his reckless driving led to the death of two passengers. 25-year-old Trey T. Thomas of Elizabeth, recently was charged in Jo Daviess C...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 30, 2025
Impaired driver drank, played game on phone with 2 kids in vehicle in Dubuque
Police said a woman drove while impaired and played a game on a phone with two children in the vehicle in Dubuque. 33-year-old Montana R. Schwank of Galena, Ill., was arrested at 6:35 p.m. Tuesday in ...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 30, 2025

Dubuque County under burn ban
Dubuque County is under a county-wide ban on burning effective today. The ban was ordered by proclamation of Iowa State Fire Marshal Dan Wood. The proclamation states that conditions "are such that op...
Courtney Chaffee Jan 30, 2025 cbransto / CC





