Category Archives: Local News
No COVID-19 Related Deaths in Recent Reporting Period
There were no additional COVID-19- related deaths reported in the area from November 24 to Wednesday. As of two weeks ago, there were six people hospitalized locally with COVID-19. As of Wednesday, th...
Dec 01, 2022
New Engineering Partnership Between UW-P and Madison College
A signing ceremony on Monday will mark a new step in the partnership between UW-Platteville and Madison College. The updated agreement will designate Madison College as an official UW-Platteville Engi...
Dec 01, 2022
Wisconsin DOJ Awards $2 Million to Wisconsin Schools for Critical Incident Mapping Data
The Wisconsin Department of Justice Office of School Safety announced that all the funds for the 2021 Wisconsin Act 109 Digital Mapping of School Buildings 2022 grant program have been awarded to 96 s...
Dec 01, 2022
Three Vehicle Crash on Highway 18 in Iowa County
Iowa County Sheriff's office received a report of a three-vehicle crash on Highway 18 between County Road Q North and South Tuesday around 8am. Dodgeville Fire, Dodgeville EMS, and Iowa County Sheriff...
Dec 01, 2022
Man arrested for role in severe beating in Dubuque
Police said a Dubuque man is one of two men accused of beating a 69-year-old man so severely the victim was admitted to an intensive care unit. 26 year old Eric Sims was arrested at 3 pm on Tuesday on...
Dec 01, 2022
MercyOne Dubuque earns 1st statewide recognition for pediatric emergency care
A Dubuque hospital is the first hospital in Iowa to be recognized for readiness to provide emergency care for children in a new program that will soon be expanded across the state. MercyOne Dubuque Me...
Dec 01, 2022
Elderly man found dead in frost-covered car following single-vehicle crash
SAUK COUNTY, Wis. — The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office says a 73-year-old man from Reedsburg was found dead Thursday morning inside a frost-covered minivan that had crashed sometime overnigh...
Dec 01, 2022
Prosecutors move to dismiss Wisconsin abortion ban challenge
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A group of prosecutors is asking a judge to toss out Democratic Attorney General Josh Kaul’s lawsuit challenging Wisconsin’s 173-year-old ban on abortions, argui...
Dec 01, 2022
Conservative judge Kelly claims Dorow is unqualified, only in Supreme Court race because of Brooks trial
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The judge who oversaw the trial of a man convicted of killing six people when he drove his SUV through a Christmas parade last year says national exposure and encouragement ...
Dec 01, 2022
Policing pregnancy: Wisconsin’s ‘fetal protection’ law, one of the nation’s most punitive, forces women into treatment or jail
By Phoebe Petrovic Wisconsin Watch Tamara Loertscher arrived at the Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire, Wisconsin on Aug. 1, 2014 despondent. The 29-year-old had suffered depression a...
Dec 01, 2022
