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They’re about 80 percent there. Managers at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair say they’ve raised just under five million of the six million-dollars they want to improve the fairgrounds. Manager Rusty Volk says the fundraising campaign is going ‘extremely well.’ The plan is to modernize and improve barns and other buildings on the fairgrounds. Volk says they plan to break ground in August, just after the fair wraps-up. Construction should wrap-up next winter.

Wisconsin’s Assembly Speaker has two weeks to deliver emails and calendars connected to the state’s election investigation or face fines of a thousand-dollars-a-day. A judge in Madison yesterday found Assembly Speaker Robin Vos in contempt of court. The judge says Vos ignored a court order to turn-over the information as part of an open records request from an outside liberal group. The group is demanding information about the Gableman investigation into the 2020 election in Wisconsin. The judge says Vos deliberately

There continues to be confusion about absentee ballots ahead of next week’s election. Different communities are handling the Wisconsin Supreme Court’s recent ruling on returning absentee ballots differently. Part of the confusion comes from a letter from the League of Wisconsin Municipalities that warned not accepting ballots from non-voters could be a civil rights violation. Milwaukee Elections Commission director Claire Woodall-Vogg yesterday said they do not check IDs when voters return ballots, and will continue to allow people to return absentee ballots for other

Some students in La Crosse are ready to ask their local school board to keep their school resource officers. Three teens, Adam Manka, Mason Muth, and Jack Murphy, say they have 300 signatures for a petition that supports the officers. La Crosse Schools are considering a plan that would reduce the number of police officers in the city’s schools next year. The students plan to make their case for the officers at Monday’s school board meeting. They say the officers

The latest snapshot of Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers show a lot fewer people with serious cases of the virus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just 27 people are in the ICU across the state with the virus. Overall, there are just 172 people hospitalized with the coronavirus in Wisconsin. That’s down more than 60 people from just last week.

 University of Wisconsin-Madison is named one of the top family medicine programs in the country.  U.S. News and World Report says Wisconsin ranks fifth on its best family med programs list.  U.S. News and World Report also ranks Wisconsin 37th for research medical schools and 20th for primary care.

A Wisconsin native comedian is set to perform on the Wisconsin State Fair Main Stage this summer.  Charlie Berens  will play the Main Stage as part of his Midwest Survival Guide Tour on August 10th.  Berens was born in Wisconsin and graduated from University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2009.

To help address the greatest needs on the UW-Madison campus, the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association will hold the third annual Day of the Badger event. This year, virtual and new in-person events will bring alumni and friends of UW-Madison together to raise critical funds to help the university remain a world-class educational institution. There are more than 100 areas of campus participating in Day of the Badger this year, including a variety schools, colleges, departments, and campus causes. UW alumni and

Authorities are searching for two drivers who are accused of killing a Twin Cities man in a hit-and-run crash in River Falls, Wisconsin.  The Saint Croix County Sheriff’s Office released surveillance photos yesterday of the suspects.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO AND PICS. They allegedly struck and killed 27-year-old Joshua Thesing of Ramsey on March 6.  Photos show both vehicles heading south on Main Street in River Falls.

Police in Richland Center identify a man who was recently found dead along a walking path.  Police say Peter Schoepp of Richland Center was found dead in the Pine River Prairie earlier this week.  Police say Schoepp was reported missing back in November.  Foul play isn’t suspected in his death.