Category Archives: Local News

If you want to be tested for COVID-19, all you have to do is ask. The state of Wisconsin will now test anyone. Originally, the Department of Health Services reserved the tests for only those most at r...

Even though Wisconsin is testing many more people for COVID-19, the number of positive test results isn't growing. Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services say the number of new case...

A company recently filed construction plans for a 200-megawatt solar farm on 2,000 acres between Potosi and Lancaster. Reports say the construction application filed by Grant County Solar LLC, a subsi...

In Wisconsin, another 375 cases of COVID-19 were reported as of Saturday morning. The state's total now is 9,590. Officials also announced 10 more deaths, pushing the total to 384. In Grant County, 66...

Platteville Parks & Recreation has announced it will not offer in-person programming through at least the end of June, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In an announcement, the department reported tha...

Twelve more Wisconsin residents have died due to complications from COVID-19, as the state's death toll is now 374. State and county health officials said Wisconsin has also reached more than 9,3o0 co...

Governor Tony Evers says he won't rule out the Republican idea of opening some parts of the state less-affected by COVID-19 a little earlier. Evers says that's one idea he discussed in a Monday meetin...

Most of Wisconsin is being warned that Friday night into Saturday morning will bring freezing temperatures a second time in-a-row. The National Weather Service says this is not all that unusual. The l...

A Mineral Point was uninjured after the straight truck he was driving rolled over Wednesday afternoon. Green County Sheriff's deputies and the Monticello Fire Department responded to the single vehicl...

An area rural educator is entering the race for Wisconsin's state school superintendent. Pecatonica Area School District Superintendent Jill Underly declared her candidacy on Thursday. She has been se...