Category Archives: Local News

US Supreme Court Blocks Extension Of Absentee Voting In Today’s Election
Absentee voters won't get any extra time to submit their ballots. The U-S Supreme Court has blocked a plan to extend the deadline for turning those ballots in. It had been tentatively extended to Apri...
Apr 07, 2020

Lands End Announces Furloughs
Lands' End announced it has furloughed workers in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. A furlough of roughly 70% of the company's corporate employees and nearly all of its retail workers went into effec...
Apr 06, 2020

State Supreme Court Blocks Evers Attempt To Delay Election
Wisconsin's presidential primary election will proceed Tuesday under an order from the state Supreme Court that came just hours after Democratic Gov. Tony Evers tried to postpone voting as part of a l...
Apr 06, 2020

Evers Suspends Tuesday's Spring Election
Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers announced Monday that he will suspend in-person voting for Tuesday's spring election, prompting Republicans to ask the state Supreme Court to block the order. Evers signe...
Apr 06, 2020

Lafayette County Reports First Confirmed Case of Coronavirus
Lafayette County health officials today announced the first confirmed case of COVID-19 in the county. Lafayette County was the last in southwest Wisconsin to not have a confirmed case. In Wisconsin, 1...
Apr 06, 2020

COVID-19 Update From Sunday
The number of confirmed deaths from COVID-19 has risen to 71 in Wisconsin - and there are now more than 23-hundred confirmed cases across the state. According to numbers from state and county health o...
Apr 06, 2020

Fennimore Man Arrested For Trespassing in Dodgeville
Police arrested a Fennimore man on Saturday morning after authorities received a report of someone trespassing at Dodgeville's Walmart. In a report from the Iowa County Sheriff's Office, a deputy arri...
Apr 06, 2020

Richland Center Drug Bust
Two people from Richland Center have been arrested on drug charges after authorities executed a search warrant at an apartment in Richland Center. Officers with the Richland Center Police Department a...
Apr 06, 2020

Prairie du Chien River Flooding and Closures
City of Prairie du Chien officials have restricted access to St. Feriole Island due to flooding concerns along the Mississippi River. On the city's Facebook page, Mayor Dave Hemmer announced that all ...
Apr 06, 2020

Lafayette County Crash on Saturday
A Blanchardville woman has been cited after falling asleep and crashing the vehicle she as driving. Lafayette County authorities say 21-year-old Whitney Hustad was driving on County Highway F in Fayet...
Apr 06, 2020





