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Wisconsin is ending the week with under 14 hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said hospitalizations in the state continue to fall.  ICU admissions for the virus are down to 278.  It was just three weeks ago that Wisconsin set a record for coronavirus hospitalizations.

Wisconsin Republicans are looking to add laws to protect healthcare workers.  Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday introduced legislation they say will crackdown on people who threaten or attack healthcare workers.  The two say there’s been a spike in cases where angry patients lash-out, harass, or intimidate people working in hospitals and nursing homes.

Madison’s mayor is predicting a Milwaukee-to-Madison Amtrak line within five years.  Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway yesterday said money from the new, massive federal infrastructure package could provide the funding for the new train line.  Rhodes-Conway, along with Milwaukee’s former mayor Tom Barrett have been working for years to expand Amtrak service in the state.  In addition to the Milwaukee-to-Madison line, there are plans for a Milwaukee-to-Green Bay line, and a train line that will run from Milwaukee all the way to

Some of Milwaukee’s new tourism money will go to help bigger cruise ships dock at the city’s port.  Governor Tony Evers this week announced 22-million-dollars in tourism grants.  Yesterday, managers at the Port of Milwaukee said six-million-dollars of that money will go to improve the docks to help lure the big lake cruise ships to town.  The hope is to complete the upgrades at the south shore dock by sometime next year.  Lake cruises are on-hold because of the coronavirus,

Today, Rep. Ron Kind announced that over $1 million is on its way to Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District to support local businesses, strengthen our rural economies, and create good-paying jobs through investments from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.   “I’m thrilled to see over $1 million in investments coming to Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District…” -Kind In Wisconsin’s Third Congressional District, funding is going to:   Wisconsin Grass-Fed Beef Cooperative – $250,000  Westby Cooperative Creamery – $250,000  Cap Services, Inc. – $75,293  Wisconsin Pork Association Cooperative – $250,000  Icon

Chippewa Falls police were looking for a missing man, but he has been found safe.  They issued a Silver Alert today after David Smith went missing while driving into Eau Claire County around 7 a.m.  Police say he’s previously gotten lost while driving, but that alert was cancelled later this afternoon after Smith was found.

One of the men who were recently arrested in connection with a dead body that was found on the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay campus is charged with homicide.  Pedro Santiago-Marquez appeared in court yesterday where he was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and mutilating a corpse.  The other man who was arrested this week was charged with aiding a felon.  A third man who was already in custody is also charged with homicide.  The suspects are accused of killing Jason Mendez-Ramos

The White House could be pushing back on a deal between the U.S. Postal Service and Oshkosh-based Oshkosh Corporation.  A contract between the two calls for billions of dollars to be spent on electric mail vehicles.  But yesterday leaders in the Biden administration said they don’t think it does enough to fix climate change.  The deal calls for about ten percent of the manufactured vehicles to be electric, but reports say the Biden administration wants an all-clean energy mail vehicle

 Daniel Bellefeuille always had a feeling he was going to win big playing the Powerball. “I had a dream ever since the Powerball started that I was going to win…” Win big he did with a $1 million winning ticket he purchased at Spooner Marathon, 730 S. River St., while filling up his snowmobile with gas. “I had a dream ever since the Powerball started that I was going to win,” said Bellefeuille. “This comes at the right time because I’m going to retire.” To win

If it has seemed like a colder start to the year than you’re used to, you’re right. It’s been a colder-than-normal and drier-than-normal January in Wisconsin.  The National Weather Service says the average high temperature, low temperature, and mean temperature in January were several degrees below-normal.  Madison also saw four-and-a-half fewer inches of snowfall than normal.  Temperatures and precipitation were also below-normal in Milwaukee.