Category Archives: Local News

Avalon to Show First Movie Ever Played
This Sunday, December 11th, marks the day The Avalon Cinema in Platteville showed their very first movie 93 years ago in 1929. In celebration, the Avalon Cinema will be showing that very same movie, o...
Mark Evenstad Dec 09, 2022

Drug Arrest in Prairie du Chien
An investigator with the Crawford County Sheriff's Office initiated a traffic stop on a vehicle on Thursday for several moving violations and suspicious activity occurring on Highway 35 and continuing...
Mark Evenstad Dec 09, 2022

Semi Crash Closes Highway 151 Friday Morning
The Grant County Sheriff’s department responded to a crash of two semis on Highway 151 near Dickeyville Friday morning around 6am. 39 year old Yonos Abraham of Colorado was traveling north on Hi...
Mark Evenstad Dec 09, 2022

‘Let’s do something about it:’ Equal Opportunities Commission implementing work group to address harms to people of color in Madison
MADISON, Wis. — Madison’s Equal Opportunities Commission is forming a new work group of 12-15 volunteers to repair harms done to people of color and initiate a “truth and reconciliat...
Nicole Herzog Dec 09, 2022

Person dead following vehicle fire near McFarland
MCFARLAND, Wis. — One person is dead following a vehicle fire south of McFarland late Friday morning, the Dane County Sheriff’s Office said. The fire happened just before 11:30 a.m. on Cou...
Logan Reigstad Dec 09, 2022

At peak, roughly 20 Metro buses stuck on snowy Madison roads Friday
MADISON, Wis. — Public transportation riders had to deal with their share of delays Friday as Madison’s Metro Transit reported 20 buses stuck on area roads at one point due to the snow. &l...
Arman Rahman Dec 09, 2022

Madison residents lose power when car crashes into pole on southwest side
MADISON, Wis. — A car knocked out power to several homes in southwest Madison when it crashed into a power pole early Friday morning. Madison police said the crash happened in the 5100 block of ...
Logan Rude Dec 09, 2022

PHOTOS: Snowy scenes from around Madison
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Site staff Dec 09, 2022

Trial dates set for man accused of killing woman whose body wasn’t found for months
MADISON, Wis. — A man accused of killing a woman and hiding her body before it was found months later will stand trial in September of next year, court records show. Gregg Raether, 56, is charge...
Logan Rude Dec 09, 2022

Suspects posing as water department employees distract homeowners while accomplice burglarizes home, Beloit police say
BELOIT, Wis. — Police in Beloit are investigating a burglary that involved two people posing as city water department employees while a third stole from a home. The burglary happened around 6 p....
Logan Reigstad Dec 09, 2022