Category Archives: Local News
Iowa County 911 calls for Sept. 28 - Oct. 4, 2025
The Iowa County Sheriff's Department is reporting their weekly 911 call volumes for last week, September 28 - October 4, 2025. Over the past week, the Iowa County 911 Communication Center handled a to...
Oct 07, 2025
UTV driver cited following rollover crash in Muscoda
Friday at 9:00 p.m., the Grant County Communication Center was notified of a single UTV crash, with entrapment, on County G, near Old Blue River Road in Muscoda township. Sheriff's Deputies along with...
Oct 07, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Iowa motorcyclist injured in Grant County crash
Friday morning the Grant County Sheriff's Office received a 911 call of a motorcycle accident on Highway 151, in Paris Township. Grant County Deputies, along with emergency crews from Dickeyville Fire...
Oct 07, 2025
Fire Prevention Week: Charge into Fire Safety
Fire Prevention Week (FPW) is October 5-11, and this year's theme is "Charge into Fire Safety: Lithium-Ion Batteries in Your Home." Most of the electronics in our homes, smartphones, tablets, power an...
Oct 06, 2025 sboneham / CC
Iowa legislators call on Ag Secretary to relocate USDA projects to Ames
Members of Iowa's Republican federal delegation joined Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds, in calling on Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to relocate Agricultural Research Service projects to Ames, Iowa, as p...
Oct 06, 2025
University of Dubuque announces new undergraduate program and Chlapaty Center for Innovation
The University of Dubuque has launched the Momentum Campaign, a three-year effort to raise $150 million to support future generations of Spartans. The campaign aims to provide resources, facilities an...
Oct 06, 2025
Kwik Trip no longer using pennies
One of Wisconsin's largest convenience store chains will no longer take or offer pennies. Kwik Trip announced Thursday that it is following guidance from the US Department of Treasury which is phasing...
Oct 06, 2025 GotCredit / CC
Small plane crashed near Otter Creek on Friday
A small plane crashed near Highway 61 in the Otter Creek area in Jackson County on Friday. According to a press release from the Jackson County Sheriff's, the crash happened when a pilot tried to make...
Oct 06, 2025
Livingston man arrested for ignition interlock device tampering
Saturday evening Iowa County Sheriff's Deputies conducted a traffic stop on County Road E near Enloe Rd in Mifflin Township. As a result of the stop, 28-year-old Benjamin O Amend of Livingston was arr...
Oct 06, 2025 Scott Davidson / CC
Two combine fires in Iowa County on Saturday
On Saturday the Iowa County Communications Center received two reports of combines on fire. The first report was a combine fully engulfed in flames in a bean field on County Road E in Mifflin Township...
Oct 06, 2025 brett jordan / CC
