Category Archives: Local News

Presidential Election Remains Very Close
The race for President remains a close one in the U.S., according to a new national Marquette Law School poll. Organizers report Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris earned 48% of support from like...
Oct 17, 2024
Death of Some Animals Leads To Closure Of Exhibit at National Mississippi River Museum and Aquarium
An exhibit at Dubuque's National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium will be closed for up to six weeks as staff respond to a chemical contamination that led to the death of two-thirds of the anim...
Mark Evenstad Oct 17, 2024

Dodgeville man arrested after cocaine found in two mailboxes
On Tuesday just after 11 AM, the Iowa County 911 Center received a call on County Road Q in the Township of Dodgeville in reference to a suspicious bag of white powder in a mailbox. An Iowa County Dep...
Courtney Chaffee Oct 16, 2024

Update Coming On Galena Comprehensive Plan
Galena-area residents are invited to participate in a yearlong process to update the city's comprehensive plan that will begin later this month. The comprehensive plan was last updated in 2003, accord...
Oct 16, 2024

Green County Gets Funding For Trades At New High School
The Green County Development Corporation (GCDC) and Monroe High School have secured a $2 million state grant to expand the current plans for a new trades center at the high school's future building. A...
Oct 16, 2024

Barneveld Man Arrested On Probation Violation
Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies, along with the Dodgeville Police Department, made a warrant arrest attempt on a man near County Road YZ in the Township of Dodgeville Tuesday around 3:30pm. As a result...
Oct 16, 2024

One Vehicle Crash in Iowa County
The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a motor vehicle accident on US Highway 18-151 near mile marker 54 in the Township of Ridgeway Tuesday around 6:10pm. Iowa County Sheriff's De...
Oct 16, 2024

Overdose deaths decreased for the first time since 2018
After years of continuously rising opioid overdoses, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that overdose deaths decreased 3% in 2023, the first annual decrease since 2018. A new s...
Courtney Chaffee Oct 15, 2024

Drought conditions in Iowa worsening
After last month turned out to be Iowa's driest September on record, October's shaping up to be just as dry and the drought conditions are worsening. The new map from the U.S. Drought Monitor shows th...
Courtney Chaffee Oct 15, 2024

Farmers stopped hay bale fire in Dubuque County
Authorities said farmers used field equipment to halt a fire in Dubuque County. A group of hay bales caught fire at approximately 3:30 p.m. Sunday on N. Cascade Road. According to Dubuque County Sheri...
Courtney Chaffee Oct 15, 2024 Mahesh Kularatne / CC





