Category Archives: Local News

COVID Testing at UW-Platteville
The Grant County Health Department has announced a 2-day COVID-19 testing site at UW-Platteville on Monday and Tuesday (Sept 28-29). This free testing site will be in the lower circle off Greenwood Av...
Sep 24, 2020 Jernej Furman / CC

Darlington Elementary Middle School Switching To Virtual Learning
Officials with Darlington Elementary-Middle School reported two more positive cases of COVID-19 Thursday. On a recommendation from the county health department, the school will switch to virtual learn...
Sep 24, 2020 Jernej Furman / CC

Two People Arrested For Drugs in Crawford County
The Crawford County Sheriff's Department made a drug arrest Wednesday. The K-9 Unit conducted a traffic stop in Prairie du Chein on a vehicle driven by 42 year old Amber Mahony of Boscobel. The passen...
Sep 24, 2020 Jobs For Felons Hub / CC

Disturbance in Mineral Point Results in Arrest
Iowa County dispatch received a report of a disturbance at an address on Ridge Street in Mineral Point on Sunday. Mineral Point Police and multiple Iowa County Deputies responded to the scene. As a re...
Sep 24, 2020 Jonathan Rolande / CC

More Cases Of Coronavirus in Eastern Iowa
Sixty-nine additional cases of COVID-19 in Dubuque County were confirmed Wednesday, increasing the county's total to 2,928. Jones County added five cases for a total of 254. Jackson County had four ca...
Sep 24, 2020 sergio santos / CC

Sculpture Arrives In Dubuque For Veterans Memorial Plaza
A stainless-steel tribute to military veterans arrived Wednesday in Dubuque. Standing 24 feet tall and weighing 18,000 pounds, a spiraling sculpture named "Skyward" that is a centerpiece of a project ...
Sep 24, 2020

Meet the Pet of the Week: Garyetta
Garyetta is a female adult cat who’s looking for a forever home. Our friends at the Dane County Humane Society describe her as a sweet, but slightly skittish girl who warms up to some good scrat...
Site staff Sep 24, 2020

Wisconsin private, nonprofit, tribal universities to receive $8.3 million for COVID-19 testing
MADISON, Wis. — More than $8 million is going to help cover the cost of COVID-19 efforts at private, nonprofit and tribal colleges and universities in Wisconsin. Gov. Tony Evers announced the fu...
Stephanie Fryer Sep 24, 2020

Madison, Dane Co. see rising COVID cases not connected to UW-Madison
MADISON — COVID-19 cases are spiking in Madison and Dane County beyond the University of Wisconsin campus figures themselves. Public Health Madison & Dane County Director Janel Heinrich call...
Lane Kimble Sep 24, 2020

Madison Public Market Foundation announces first 5 permanent vendors
MADISON, Wis. — The Madison Public Market Foundation announced Thursday the first five vendors that will set up shop in the Madison Public Market when it opens. During a press conference Thursda...
Logan Rude Sep 24, 2020