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An over 150-year-old tavern in Middleton is damaged by a fire.  Club Tavern Restaurant and Bar on Branch Street caught fire around midnight Saturday, with flames damaging interior walls and the ceiling.  No one was hurt in the fire and there’s currently no damage estimate.  The cause hasn’t been determined.

Wisconsin has some of the highest overall taxes in the country.  WalletHub says the average Wisconsin resident pays over 83-hundred dollars in taxes a year, seventh-highest in the U.S.  WalletHub also says state taxes are over 22 percent higher in Wisconsin than federal taxes.  The state with the lowest overall taxes is Alaska and the state with the highest is Illinois.

There could be another big-check coming to folks in Menomonie. Governor Evers is set to be in the area later today. No one is saying just what the governor will be speaking about, but he is crisscrossing the state to hand out money from Wisconsin’s coronavirus stimulus haul. As of now, it looks like the governor will be at Menomonie City Hall at 12:30-p.m.

Just about everyone should have their lights back on after western Wisconsin’s stormy weekend. Xcel Energy crews say a couple of hundred people didn’t have power yesterday after storms swept across the area. Folks in the Hayward and Cable areas were hit the hardest.   Across the state, other places were hit by a punch from Mother Nature as well. It was a tornado. The National Weather Service is confirming that a tornado touched-down late Saturday night southeast of Stoughton. There

Wisconsin’s two U.S. Senators want to end protections for gray wolves. Both Republican Ron Johnson and Democrat Tammy Baldwin last week introduced a plan to delist the wolves. It comes after a federal judge in California issued new protections for wolves in Wisconsin and most of the rest of the country. That decision ended Wisconsin’s wolf hunt for the foreseeable future. Johnson and Baldwin’s proposal would allow hunters and trappers to once again manage the gray wolves that are growing in the northern

You could soon see dogs at more restaurants in Wisconsin. Governor Tony Evers on Friday signed a new law that allows the state to write new rules for more pet-friendly businesses. The law specifically states that businesses cannot ban dogs from places that sell pre-packaged food only. The new law is one of 15 that the governor signed last week.

Republican lawmakers in Wisconsin are looking to challenge the state’s new political map in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. Republicans filed their challenge to the map on Friday, just one day after the Wisconsin Supreme Court decided to go with a map drawn by Gov. Tony Evers. Conservative justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court say the map segregates voters by race, which is not allowed under the federal Voting Rights Act. Republicans at the Capitol are asking the state court to hold-off on implementing the

Wisconsin could have 400 people hospitalized with the coronavirus by the end of the day. The state’s Hospital Association on Friday said 443 people were hospitalized with the virus across the state, including 77 in the ICU. Wisconsin’s hospitalization numbers have plummeted since their peak in early January. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

It looks like there will be fireworks along the lakefront in Milwaukee this year. Milwaukee County’s parks director says he is optimistic that the show will go on on July 3rd. There are some unanswered questions about a sponsor for the event and whether the county can hire enough people to pull-off the fireworks show. Milwaukee hasn’t hosted a fireworks show since 2019, either because of the coronavirus or because the county couldn’t find enough seasonal workers to make it

Hundreds of pro-Ukraine demonstrators stage a rally at the state capitol.  The rally on the capitol steps yesterday was speckled throughout with Ukraine’s blue and yellow colors and flags.  Supporters of the Ukrainian people called for an end to Russia’s invasion of her neighbor.  The invasion of southeastern Ukraine by Russian forces started February 24th and has since begun to spread to other areas inside the Ukraine.