Category Archives: Local News

Four Seek To Fill Council Seat
Members of the Platteville Common Council will choose among four candidates to fill a vacant seat. Back in May, council member Robin Cline announced she was stepping down from her post. The council de...
Jul 07, 2021 GotCredit / CC

No Tuition Increase For UW System
UW System leaders are set to approve a budget that includes no tuition increases for resident under-graduates. Provisions in the state budget lift a freeze on resident under-graduate tuition that has ...
Jul 07, 2021 Phil Roeder / CC

City of Lancaster Getting Funding Needed For Airport Renovation
The Lancaster Common Council has approved a contract with MSA Professional Services to design and go out for bids on a major improvement project at the Lancaster Municipal Airport. The most recent pro...
Jul 06, 2021 Mike Cohen / CC

Still No Sign Of Boater Who Fell Into Wisconsin River
Search efforts continued Monday after a 22-year-old man from Arena was thrown overboard into the Wisconsin River following a boating collision on Saturday. People across the community, including famil...
Jul 06, 2021 GotCredit / CC

Driver Falls Asleep and Crashes Into House in Grant County
Authorities say a motorist fell asleep and crashed into a house Thursday in Grant County. 18 year old Phillip Le of Woodbury, Minnesota suffered minor injuries in the crash. According to the Grant Cou...
Jul 06, 2021

Suspicious Person Call Leads To 4th OWI Arrest
First ParagraphA woman from Dodgeville was arrested early Monday for her 4th OWI Offense. An Iowa County Deputy assisted Dodgeville Police with a suspicious person call at an address on North Bequette...
Jul 06, 2021 Highway Patrol Images / CC

PSC Pulls Permit
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission has agreed to reconsider a power line project thru southwest Wisconsin. The move comes amid revelations that a former commissioner had encrypted communications ...
Jul 02, 2021

Slendman Stabber Out
A Wisconsin judge says a woman convicted of stabbing her classmate to please the Slender Man character in 2014 can be released from a mental health facility. Now 19-year-old Anissa Weier asked a Wauke...
Jul 02, 2021 GotCredit / CC

Lancaster Gets Grants For Memorial Park Work
The City of Lancaster has received grants totaling almost $135-thousand dollars from the Lancaster Community Fund. This money will be used to fund improvements to the Memorial Park Warming Shelter. Ac...
Jul 02, 2021 Mike Cohen / CC

Legislative Leaders To Governor: Sign It
Republican legislative leaders are urging the governor to sign the state budget bill passed this week. For the first time in 14 years, the two-year spending plan got bipartisan support. Seven Democrat...
Jul 02, 2021 GotCredit / CC





