Category Archives: Local News

2025 Iowa hunting & fishing licenses available next week
Iowans can buy 2025 resident hunting, fishing and other licenses on Dec. 15. Licenses purchased for 2024 expire on Jan. 10. The menu of license options includes the popular Outdoor Combo annual reside...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 11, 2024
Demolition set to begin on O.E. Gray building
The City of Platteville in collaboration with Kraemer Brothers and Owen's Excavation and Trenching is scheduled to begin deconstruction of the O.E. Gray building next week to make space for the new fi...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 11, 2024

Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors
Wisconsin prosecutors filed 10 additional felony charges Tuesday against two attorneys and an aide to President-elect Donald Trump who advised Trump in 2020 as part of a plan to submit paperwork false...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 11, 2024

National gas prices below $3 a gallon
Average U.S. gasoline prices fell below $3 a gallon for the first time in over three years. The national average price for regular gasoline fell to $2.97 per gallon on Monday, the lowest since May 202...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024

Prairie du Chien school board considers leasing part of middle school
Prairie du Chien's school board is considering leasing part of its middle school to a health care center. Last month voters rejected a $10 million multi-year operating referendum. The district now has...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024 Johannes Thiel / CC

Wisconsin Republicans sue to resolve conflict of when Electoral College votes must be cast for Trump
Wisconsin Republicans have filed a lawsuit seeking a court order to resolve a discrepancy between state and federal law about what date the state's presidential electors must meet to cast Wisconsin's ...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024
Officials ID victims of fatal boating incident near Bellevue
Officials have identified the three men who died Sunday after their boat capsized in the Mississippi River near Bellevue. 30-year-old Mitchell Thomson of Stanwood, Iowa; 40-year-old Nicholas Thomson o...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024

DNR reminds residents to use caution on ice
As Wisconsin enters the early winter ice season, the state Department of Natural Resources is urging outdoor enthusiasts to practice caution when venturing onto the ice. Even though ice is forming acr...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024

DPI receives $10 million for mental health services
The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction will receive $10 million in grant funding to grow staffing capacity for mental health services at schools across the state. The five-year grant from the ...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024 GotCredit / CC

Barn fire in Sinbad on Sunday
On Sunday at 3:13 PM The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a barn fire near Sinbad Road and Union Valley Road in the Township of Linden. Cobb First Responders, Dodgeville EMS, and...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 10, 2024 Mahesh Kularatne / CC





