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Police are looking for a missing woman from Tomah.  Ho-Chunk Nation police say Felicia Wanna, also known as Felicia Helgeson, was last seen over a week ago in Warrens.  They say she may have been in La Crosse on January 3rd.  Anyone with information is asked to call Ho-Chunk police.

With the holiday in the rear view mirror for many, this time of year means a return to reality and facing the bills from that spending. But for this week’s Friday Feel Good we dig into a wallet for an entirely different reason.  A West Virginia woman had her wallet returned to her 54 years later after losing it at her school.  Construction workers returned it to her through Facebook when they found the wallet while renovating the school into apartments.  Contractor

The Barron County Sheriff’s Department and the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Area School District announce the addition of a full time school resources officer. Deputy Erik Sedani started in the new role on Tuesday this week and will serve the Chetek-Weyerhaeuser Elementary, Middle and High Schools. Erik is a five-year veteran of the Sheriff’s Department and is excited for the role. Erik’s main role at the school district will be safety, building relationships with the students and staff and serving as a resource

The state DOJ agent charged in the shooting of a Madison man will go to trial. A judge yesterday said there is enough evidence to take Agent Mark Wagner to trial for last February’s shooting of Quadren Wilson. He was shot several times during his arrest. Wagner originally said he thought Wilson had a gun, but an investigation found that Wilson was unarmed. Wilson was wanted on drug charges, and is currently in prison for drug charges. There’s no word

Most of the oil that leaked into the Flambeau River last November has been cleaned-up. Dairyland Power Cooperative said  in a report to the state’s Department of Natural Resources that crews have cleaned most of the river that was impacted by the leak at the Dairyland Flowage Dam. Crews were able to take roughly  20 55-gallon drums of oil-impacted water out of the river.

Wisconsin’s tax burden is at its lowest level, ever. A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum says last year’s billion-dollar state income tax cut, and Wisconsin’s rules against increasing property taxes means the amount of money each taxpayer is paying in taxes is smaller than ever before. Taxpayers are still paying a lot, over 35 billion-dollars in state and local taxes last year alone. The report says Personal income taxes are still the biggest share, followed by sales taxes, then corporate income

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate says they are ‘close’ to supporting a plan for medical marijuana. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Republicans in the Senate could support a medical marijuana program as long as there are strong regulations. He says he doesn’t want someone with back pain to be able to get a pot prescription in Wisconsin. The State Senate has been the roadblock for any kind of marijuana legalization in the state in years

The state’s Department of Natural Resources is being called-in to help clean-up butter in Portage. A fire at the Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage on Monday melted 20 gallons of butter . That butter washed into the sewers, and is now causing problems at Portage’s wastewater treatment plant. DNR regulators say there’s been a minimal impact from the butter spill on the environment. Firefighters in Portage aren;t sure yet just what caused the fire.

The clock is ticking on I-41 just outside of Milwaukee for the next few days. Wis-DOT says crews will close the freeway at 11 p.m. tonight to replace parts of the railroad bridge near the Zoo Interchange in Wauwatosa. The closure will last til 6 a.m. Sunday. Wis-DOT says both sides of the freeway between Watertown Plank and Burleigh will be closed, and are reminding people to use alternative roads.

City leaders in the Fox Valley are the latest to want Amtrak service in Wisconsin. The mayors in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Kaukauna, Menasha, Neenah, and Fond du Lac this week all said they want to see a train connect their cities with Milwaukee. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich says connecting the New North with Milwaukee would also connect the area with the rest of the country. He says the Fox Valley would benefit from Amtrak service. No one, however, is