Category Archives: Local News
Affordable housing community expected to open in 2026 in Dubuque
A $55.1 million affordable housing community is expected to open in Dubuque in fall 2026. The Annex Group plans to build two, four-story buildings at 2660 Kerper Boulevard, called the "Union at the Ma...
Dec 19, 2024
Dubuque gets professional arena football team
Dubuque is getting its first-ever professional arena football team. The Five Flags Civic Center General Manager Aaron Rainey said the venue will be the home of the Iowa Power. The sides reached an agr...
Dec 19, 2024 Tom Newby / CC
Prairie du Chien Schools face drastic cuts
The Prairie du Chien school district says it will have to make drastic cuts if the community does not pass a referendum to generate more money for the school district. Prairie du Chien voters defeated...
Dec 19, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Wisconsin Republicans cast electoral votes
The final step in the 2024 presidential election in Wisconsin is now finished. On Tuesday, 10 Republicans met at the State Capitol to cast Wisconsin's electoral votes for Donald Trump and JD Vance. On...
Dec 19, 2024 GPA Photo Archive
Multiple arrested in Crawford County over stolen sawmill
The Crawford County Sheriff's Office has successfully recovered a stolen sawmill valued at several thousand dollars and made multiple arrests following a coordinated effort with neighboring law enforc...
Dec 18, 2024
Iowa-Grant School District opposes Badger Hollow Wind Farm
The Iowa-Grant School District has submitted a letter to the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin in opposition to the Badger Hollow Wind Farm. At the December 9th school board meeting the Iowa-Gran...
Dec 18, 2024 broker / Depositphotos.com
Madison police still looking for shooter's motive
The motive for a shooting that killed a teacher and a student and wounded others at a Wisconsin school appears to be a "combination of factors," a police chief said Tuesday as he appealed to the publi...
Dec 18, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Lancaster man pleads not guilty to homicide
The man accused in a Prairie du Chien homicide has pleaded not guilty. In Crawford County Court Tuesday, 39-year-old Jessie Slaughter of Lancaster, Wisconsin pleaded not guilty to 1st degree intention...
Dec 18, 2024
District court reverses 2023 termination of Hempstead teacher
A Dubuque Hempstead teacher terminated after using a racial slur in front of a black student in May 2023 has been reinstated following a decision from a District Court. Roger Poling, a business educat...
Dec 18, 2024
Dubuque City Council amends agreement with Walter & Duluth
The Dubuque City Council voted, 7-0, to amend its development agreement with Walter Development to allow them to find a new industrial tenant. Duluth Trading Co. closed its distribution center in Octo...
Dec 18, 2024 GotCredit / CC
