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 Milwaukee’s beleaguered streetcar is in-line to get even more money as the city looks to expand its routes. Mayor Tom Barrett’s office yesterday said the plan is to spend 250 thousand-dollars for planning to eventually expand The Hop from the Third Ward down to Walker’s Point. A hearing on the plan is set for next week. The Hop is on pace to lose over three million-dollars this year, and it is mostly empty. The mayor’s office says Milwaukee cannot shut

Xcel Energy joins the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) and the Edison Electric Institute in celebrating its more than 1,000 full-time line workers as part of National Lineworker Appreciation Day, which falls on Saturday, July 10. Xcel Energy lineworkers maintain over 200,000 miles of electricity lines across the eight states thecompany services, keeping the lights on for more than 3.5 million electricity customers.

A crash involving multiple vehicles remains under investigation. It was on July 7th, at approximately 05:55 pm, the Buffalo County Communications Center received multiple 911 calls reporting a three vehicle crash in the City of Fountain City on State Highway 35 near Eagle St. Information that was provided to the Communications Center was indicated that there was a female party whom was in urgent need of an ambulance. Shortly after first responders arrived on scene, the female operator became pulseless

There is now a warrant out for a woman who prosecutors say stabbed her husband. Prosecutors say 67-year-old Karen Christenson didn’t show-up for her court date last week. Police and the sheriff’s office are now looking for her. Christenson is facing charges for a stabbing last summer, and her husband says she was acting paranoid before she turned a knife on him.

A North Dakota woman is looking at charges for hitting 137 miles-per-hour as she tried to speed away from the police near La Crosse. An officer in the town of Campbell initially clocked Amy Torres driving 119 miles-per-hour along I-90. When he tried to pull her over, she sped-up to 137. Police say Torres ran out of gas on the bridge over the Mississippi River. She told police she was scared and lost. Torres is facing charges for the chase

They are taking the next step at Ashley Furniture’s new Chippewa Falls facility. The company joined local leaders for a ribbon cutting yesterday. The new facility, on First Avenue in Chippewa Falls, will eventually be an upholstery manufacturing site. Ashley says opening the new facility will not impact its headquarters in Arcadia. Ashley hopes to create 200 jobs at the new facility in Chippewa Falls.

The governor signed the 87-and-a-half billion-dollar, two-year budget yesterday. But not all lawmakers think he deserves credit. He said he delivered on his promise to cut taxes. But Republican Senate Leader Devin LeMahieu said the governor deserves ‘No’ credit for the budget. LeMahieu said Republicans crafted the spending plan, Republicans pushed for the tax cuts, and Republicans delivered in their promises. LeMahieu says Governor Evers originally wanted to raise taxes in his state budget.

The state of Wisconsin is not going to buy the closed paper mills in Wisconsin Rapids and Park Falls. Governor Evers yesterday cut the mills out of the state’s new budget. Republican lawmakers wanted to use federal stimulus dollars to help re-open the mills. The governor says he doesn’t want to spend any of the state’s two-point-four billion-dollars in stimulus money on something that doesn’t give long term support to the mills or their workers. Northern Wisconsin state Senator Patrick Testin says the governor ‘turned his

Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers continue to show huge racial and age gaps. Numbers from the state’s Department of Health Services show over two-point-four-million of the two-point-nine-million people who’ve gotten one dose of the vaccine are white. Just 116-thousand Black people in Wisconsin have gotten a single dose of the vaccine. More than one-million people 55-plus have gotten their shots, compared to just 140-thousand people under 18. DHS says a little over 50-percent of people in Wisconsin have gotten one dose of the vaccine. CLICK

The first piece of Wisconsin’s opioid settlement is worth 65-million dollars. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday said the state will get the money from Purdue Pharma, the makers of Oxytcontin. Purdue is settling with some states as part of a lawsuit that claims the company pushed Oxy pills without warning of the dangers. In all, the Purdue Pharma settlement is over four-billion dollars.