Dubuque County supervisors received 20 applications for the vacant county recorder position by Friday's deadline and intend to conduct interviews this week. The supervisors will choose each of their top three candidates by noon Wednesday and candidates will be interviewed Friday. There could be as many as nine candidat...

A recent semiannual count recorded the highest number of local individuals experiencing homelessness since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. During the overnight point-in-time count that took place from Wednesday to Thursday, July 30 to 31, teams walked the streets of Dubuque and Delaware counties to find, identify a...

Southwest Wisconsin Technical College is inviting the public to a celebration honoring the college's recent distinction as the #1 two-year college in the nation. Southwest Tech was named the winner of the 2025 Aspen Prize for Community College Excellence, the highest honor a community college can receive. The free, fam...

A southwest Wisconsin man recently was sentenced to three months in jail and two years of probation after being found guilty of a hate crime. 22-year-old Christopher L. Drapeau, recently received the sentence after being found guilty by a jury of battery, disorderly conduct with a hate-crime modifier and criminal damag...

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services has confirmed nine cases of measles in Oconto County, marking the first cases in the state this year. These cases were linked to a common source during out-of-state travel. Testing at the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene confirmed one case, while eight others were identi...

The Potosi Tennyson Lions Club and two local banks are partnering on a back-to-school supply and snack drive. Organizers seek donations of crayons, glue sticks, folders, scissors, notebooks, fine-point dry-erase markers, pencils and other supplies, as well as cereal bars, crackers, fruit snacks, granola bars, trail mix...

Over the past week from July 27 through August 2, the Iowa County 911 Communication Center handled a total of 472 calls for service. The top calls for service were 100 traffic stops, 7 disturbances, 14 motor vehicle accidents, 36 EMS calls, 48 911 misdials, 24 traffic complaints, and 15 animal issues. Year-to-date in 2...

The Lancaster Police Department is advising the public of a sex offender moving into the area. On Sunday, August 10, Timothy Howen will be residing in Lancaster and living in the 300 block of W. Elm St in a temporary living placement for approximately 60 days. Howen will have a GPS monitor and be on the sex offender re...

The University of Wisconsin Police Department was on the scene of an active police incident Monday on the east side of the UW Arboretum. The police urged the public to avoid the area, as it was deemed as "very dangerous." The initial notification was sent roughly at 10 a.m. In an 10:35 a.m. update, UWPD said ...

Starting this fall, consumers in the U.S. will have the option to buy Coca-Cola sweetened with domestic cane sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup. Some Nutritionist have indicated switching from high-fructose corn syrup to cane sugar is not likely to "change anybody's health. Food and beverage industries star...