Category Archives: Local News

U of I Health Care settles suit in Dubuque man's death
University of Iowa Health Care is paying a total of $3.5 million to settle two malpractice lawsuits - including one involving a 63-year-old Dubuque man who died in the operating room during a surgery ...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

Montfort hosting presentation about plans for the new pool
Community members in Montfort formed a nonprofit to save their community pool after the village board voted to shut it down at the end of last summer. Knowing how important the pool is to Montfort and...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025 IraGirichBO / Depositphotos.com

Attorneys ask for more time to review plea deal offered to Katrina Baur
The attorney for Katrina Baur says she needs more time to review a plea deal being offered to her client. Baur is charged in connection with the death of her 3-year-old son, Elijah Vue. Both the defen...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

Wisconsin dairy farmer sues Trump administration claiming discrimination against white farmers
A Wisconsin dairy farmer alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that the Trump administration is illegally denying financial assistance to white farmers by continuing programs that favor minorities...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

One airlifted following crash with three motorcycles and a vehicle
One person was airlifted following a crash involving three motorcycles and a vehicle in Lafayette County. On Friday at 6:20 PM Deputies responded to County G in Belmont Township for an accident. 24-ye...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025 GotCredit / CC

One arrested in Dane County following domestic disturbance in Arena
On Friday at 8:32 AM The Iowa County Communications Center received a report of a domestic disturbance on Highway 14 in Arena. The suspect left the scene and proceeded into Dane County. Dane County Sh...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

Platteville Community Fund awards $27,000 in grants
Platteville Community Fund, a component fund of the Community Foundation of Southern Wisconsin, awarded about $27,000 in grants recently to eleven local nonprofit organizations and projects. The fund ...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

Portion of County A closing Monday, June 23 for construction
County Trunk Highway 'A' within South Lancaster Township between Lancaster and Bloomington will be temporarily closed to through traffic for Construction starting Monday, June 23 through October 31. D...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

Wisconsin Elections Commission mailing inactive voter postcards
The Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC) is mailing postcards this week to more than 200- thousand registered voters who have not voted in the past four years. The postcards are titled "Official Voter...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025 hjl / CC

SW Wisconsin man working on road project killed in crash with agricultural machine in Portage County
A Southwest Wisconsin man working on a road project was killed in Portage County. 24 year old Cody A. Nielsen of Belmont-formerly of Darlington was struck by an agricultural machine about 5:15 pm Wedn...
Courtney Chaffee Jun 16, 2025

