Category Archives: Local News

UW system administration releases report on its finances
The Universities of Wisconsin Administration released a third-party report on its finances Monday, announcing plans for how it can better and more efficiently support the state's public universities a...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 05, 2024

East Dubuque welcoming two new dispensaries
The city of East Dubuque is poised to welcome two new cannabis dispensaries in the next two months. Cannabis company nuEra will open an adult-use and medical cannabis dispensary near Family Beer &...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 05, 2024 Yarygin / Depositphotos.com

City of Dubuque approves four housing rehab projects
The Dubuque City Council signed off on a burst of housing rehab projects in the downtown area on Monday, using both property tax rollbacks and direct grant dollars. Collectively, the four projects app...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 05, 2024

Dodgeville Schools District looking to cut costs
On November 24th staff at Dodgeville School District received a memo from the District Administrator Ryan Bohnsack outlining cost saving measures after the recent referendum failed. The first section ...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024 Benjamin Sperandio / CC

Mineral Point Schools updates parents about school threat before Thanksgiving
This week parents of students in the Mineral Point Unified School District received an email update regarding threats made to the school before Thanksgiving. The email from Superintendent Mitch Wainwr...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024 GotCredit / CC
Explosion at Dubuque's wastewater treatment plant
Officials said a gas leak caused an explosion today at Dubuque's wastewater treatment plant, though no injuries have been reported. Dubuque Police Department Lt. Luke Bock confirmed there was an explo...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024

Medical Associates Clinic in Elizabeth closing
A local medical provider is closing a Jo Daviess County location. Medical Associates Clinic announced it will permanently close its location in Elizabeth effective Dec. 31. In a letter dated Nov. 15 a...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024

Platteville man arrested in Shullsburg for threats to law enforcement
On Tuesday just before 8:30 PM Lafayette County Deputies responded to W Water ST in the City of Shullsburg for check welfare. As a result, 47-year-old Jason Durr of Platteville was arrested for Bail J...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024

Slaughter faces criminal proceedings for Prairie du Chien homicide
A Crawford County judge rules there was enough evidence to continue criminal proceedings against a Lancaster man accused of killing a man in Prairie du Chien in October. Jessie Jay Slaughter is charge...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 04, 2024 GotCredit / CC
No injuries from aircraft emergency landing
On Sunday at approximately 6:30 p.m., the Boscobel Police Department responded to a report of an aircraft crash at the Boscobel Airport. 18-year-old Kyle Erpelding of Cary, IL was operating the aircra...
Courtney Chaffee Dec 03, 2024





