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Fort McCoy is opening its doors to the public for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic.  Fort McCoy leaders say the fort will be open for an Armed Forces Day Open House on May 21st.  There will be demonstrations, installation bus tours, a simulation shooting gallery, and other events.  Admission and parking are free.

The Wisconsin State Patrol is hiring new recruits.  The State Patrol announced today it’ll be hiring troopers and inspectors from now until July 8th.  Information on how to apply is available on the Wisconsin State Patrol website.

The USS Milwaukee is back to port in Florida after its latest tour of duty. The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service says the ship had been conducting counter-narcotics work in the Caribbean along side a helicopter detachment since December.  The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service says the ship helped disrupt the shipment of 64-million dollars worth of cocaine.

 A halt on ACT/SAT requirements at University of Wisconsin-Madison isn’t resulting in more diverse applicants.  That’s according to preliminary research recently released by the Wisconsin Board of Regents.  The research shows during the first year of optional standardized testing 63 percent of applicants still submitted test scores and people who submitted scores were less likely to be female, Black, or Hispanic.  The Board says the policy has led to more applicants but so far hasn’t resulted in more diversity.

The arrival of spring marks the end of the heating season. It’s also time for customers who may have fallen behind on their bills to make arrangements to ensure their service is not interrupted. For those who may need financial assistance, there are a variety of programs that can help customers in need. The moratorium, which expires April 15, helps protect residential energy customers from electric or gas service disconnections if it affects their primary heating source. The rule runs each

Milwaukee’s deadly 2022 is continuing. Milwaukee Police say two men were shot and killed in two separate shootings yesterday. One shooting happened on the city’s north side about 7:15 last night. The other happened very early yesterday morning near Fiserv Forum in the city’s Old World Third bar district. The killings bring Milwaukee’s homicide total for 2022 to nearly 60.

I-94 is back open in Dunn County after a pair of crashes yesterday. The first crash happened yesterday morning and blocked the left lane of eastbound I-94 about a mile before the Highway 25 exit to Menomonie. The second crash happened about two hours later, and blocked the right lane of traffic on westbound I-94 about one mile past the County Highway Q exit to Knapp. No one was seriously hurt in either crash. It took crews a couple of

 No one is saying when the train cars that jumped the tracks in Altoona will be cleaned-up. We do know that no one was hurt when 12 cars derailed on Saturday. The Union Pacific Railroad says the cars were empty when they went off the tracks Saturday afternoon. There’s an investigation into the derailment as well.

Steven Avery’s lawyer is planning to file a new petition in his case. Attorney Kathleen Zellner said on Twitter on Saturday that she will be filing something ‘very soon.’  Avery continues to serve his life sentence for the 2005 murder of Teresa Halbach. Zellner isn’t saying just what she is planning to file, or when.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has a big week. The justices will hear arguments about school gender policies and ballot drop boxes. The case on gender comes from Madison, where a parent filed a lawsuit over Madison School’s policy to keep kids’ gender changes at school secret. That will be heard tomorrow. The ballot drop box case could decide whether drop boxes will be allowed going forward in the state. That case will be argued Wednesday morning.