Category Archives: Local News

Platteville city staff have unveiled several design alternatives for a planned replacement of the city's fire station aimed at reducing the project's cost. The alternatives were developed after update...

Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff's department responded to County Highway J in the Village of Benton Tuesday at around 4:30pm for a domestic dispute. 34 year old Tiphani Breitsprecker of Ben...

Iowa County authorities received a report of an out-of-control brush fire on Ferndale Road near 9th Street in the Mineral Point Township shortly after 1pm Tuesday. The Mineral Point Fire Department, D...

An 18-year-old has been charged with homicide by negligent operation of a vehicle stemming from a crash that killed a teenage girl waiting for a school bus outside Reedsburg earlier this year. Kevin G...

Officials in Delaware County say no injuries were reported after heat caused an anhydrous ammonia tank to explode Wednesday afternoon at an agriculture cooperative’s Manchester location. Accordi...

Iowa County officials received a report of a vehicle that appeared to have been in a crash on Biglow Hill Road in the township of Clyde Sunday around 11am. Lone Rock Fire, Lone Rock EMS and Iowa Count...

Nearly 10,000 people in southwest Wisconsin are set to get affordable, high-speed internet thanks to a $28 million investment. U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wisconsin State Director...

UW-Platteville is facing a fiscal shortfall and officials have announced that they are considering employee furloughs and budget "retractions" to address the fiscal shortfall, as well as steps such as...

Two people were arrested in Sauk County over the weekend for driving under the influence in the same location. According to the Sauk County Sheriff's Office, on Saturday, a deputy pulled over a vehicl...

Deputies with the Lafayette County Sheriff's department responded to Highway 23 in Darlington Township for a disorderly dispute. As a result, 21 year old Eric Hocking of New Glarus was arrested for Di...