Category Archives: Local News
Interstate 39/90/90, State Highway 60 interchange closes for first phase of reconstruction
LODI, Wis. — The interchange between Interstate 39/90/94 and State Highway 60 near Lodi in southern Columbia County closed Tuesday as part of a reconstruction project. The five-phase project wil...
Sep 06, 2022
Construction begins on new interchange at US 12/18, County AB east of Madison
MADISON, Wis. — Construction is now underway on a new interchange between U.S. Highway 12/18 and County Highway AB near the Yahara Hills Golf Course east of Madison. Work on the project began Tu...
Sep 06, 2022
New booster to target Omicron subvariants now available
FITCHBURG, Wis. – A new COVID-19 booster meant to specifically target the most widely circulating Omicron subvariants is now available in the Madison area, and more doses are expected later this...
Sep 06, 2022
Officers find loaded handgun in vehicle parked in downtown Madison; man arrested
MADISON, Wis. — A 25-year-old Madison man was arrested on weapons charges after officers found a handgun on the floorboard of a vehicle parked downtown over the weekend, the city’s police ...
Sep 06, 2022
For the Record: Dane County sheriff on ICE information sharing policies; MMSD superintendent on staff shortages
FTR: Madison schools superintendent on crisis in staffing Across the nation, schools are in crisis amid a shortage of teachers not seen in decades. The U.S. Department of Education earlier this summer...
Sep 06, 2022
Miss Wisconsin welcomes UW-Madison engineering students back to campus
MADISON, Wis. — A day before students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison head back to the classroom, incoming students in the university’s College of Engineering got a welcome from a s...
Sep 06, 2022
New Student Convocation welcomes incoming UW-Madison students ahead of start of classes
MADISON, Wis. — An event on the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus Tuesday welcomed new first-year and transfer students a day before they’re set to begin classes. The New Student Conv...
Sep 06, 2022
Complaint lays out new details in case of 11-month-old’s overdose death
MADISON, Wis. — An 11-month-old girl who died from a drug overdose last July had 13 times the amount of fentanyl in her blood than the amount necessary to kill an adult, according to a criminal ...
Sep 06, 2022
Packer fans in 13 Wisconsin counties can’t always watch the game. A bill aims to change that.
WASHINGTON (WKBT) — Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin re-introduced a bill that she says would ensure everyone in the state would be able to watch the Green Bay Packers. Dubbed the “Go Pack ...
Sep 06, 2022
Obit: Business titan Kohler led family company for 4 decades
KOHLER, Wis. (AP) — Herbert Kohler Jr., who led the plumbing fixture manufacturer his grandfather founded for more than four decades and who turned the tiny Wisconsin village that bears h...
Sep 06, 2022
