Category Archives: Local News

Marijuana found on Capitol grounds
Someone's plans to harvest dozens of apparent marijuana plants grown on the Wisconsin state Capitol grounds have gone up in smoke. The plants sprouted in a tulip garden outside the Capitol. Tatyana Wa...
Courtney Chaffee May 18, 2024 Yarygin / Depositphotos.com

Van Orden announced project requests
In a release Friday, 3rd District Congressman Derrick Van Orden announced project requests made for the next fiscal year. Local projects for Fiscal Year 2025 Community Project Funding requests are: Th...
Courtney Chaffee May 18, 2024

Memorial Day Service
The Disabled American Veterans and Veterans of Foreign Wars invites everyone to a Memorial Day service on Monday May 27th at Lancaster Memorial Park. The service will begin at 10:30am honoring those w...
May 17, 2024
Man Injured When Vehicle Crashes With Back of Manure Spreader
Authorities say one person was injured Wednesday when his vehicle collided with the rear of a farm vehicle in rural Hazel Green. 41 year old Jairo Andrade-Aguirre of Hanover was taken from the scene b...
May 17, 2024

Witnesses Testify In Dubuque Murder Trial
A pair of Dubuque residents testified Thursday to witnessing a fatal point-blank shooting outside their Central Avenue home in the ongoing murder trial against the man accused of firing the gun. 32-ye...
Mark Evenstad May 17, 2024
One of Prairie du Chien's Wells Shut Down Due To PFAs
One of the Prairie du Chien's four wells had to be shut down because it had high levels of PFAS in the water system. PFAS, which are plastics and other chemicals that do not deteriorate in the environ...
May 16, 2024

Woman Arrested Folowing Disturbance Near Mineral Point
A woman was arrested after fleeing the scene of a loud disturbance and later driving at high rates of speed through a school parking lot while children were at practices. The Iowa County Sheriff's Off...
May 16, 2024

Two Vehicle Crash Near Mineral Point
The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a two-vehicle crash on US Highway 151 near East Survey Road in Mineral Point Wednesday around 2:20pm. The Mineral Point Fire Department, Mine...
May 16, 2024

Platteville Family Aquatic Center Will Not Open This Summer
The City of Platteville has announced that the Platteville Family Aquatic Center will be closed this summer because of "significant structural damages" to the pool's subsurface and foundations from ye...
May 16, 2024

Republicans Vote To Override Evers Vetos
The Republican-controlled Wisconsin Senate voted Tuesday to override nine vetoes of Democratic Gov. Tony Evers in a mostly symbolic move that comes less than six months before the November election. T...
May 15, 2024





