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A University of Wisconsin swimmer is going into the Hall of Fame as the schools’ first N-C-A-A champion.  Maggie Meyer will be inducted into the 2021 Hall of Fame after she took home the 2011 N-C-A-A championship win with a record setting race.  According to the Wisconsin Badgers website, she’s also the U.S. collegiate record holder for the 200 back, finishing in a little over a minute and 47 seconds.

Cranberries are blossoming in Wisconsin.  The famous seas of red won’t be visible until the fruit is ready in the fall.  What’s known as Cranberry Highway is just Southeast of the Chippewa Valley.  In September and October, people can travel down to see 50 miles of century old cranberry marshes along and near Highway-54.

The chemical plant fire just on the other side of the Illinois border is expected to burn for days. No one is saying just what started the fire yesterday at the Chemtool plant in Rockton, Illinois. People in southern Wisconsin can see the huge smoke plume from the fire, and are expected to continue to see it for the next couple of days. No one was hurt in the fire, though about 150 people who live or work within a mile of

A Badger Hall of fame football player is looking at child sexual assault charges in Minnesota. Authorities arrested 44-year-old Tom Burke at his home in Rice Lake, Wisconsin last week. He’s facing charges in Duluth. Prosecutors there say he sexually assaulted a seven-year-old girl. Burke played on Wisconsin’s 1998 Rose Bowl winning team, and played four seasons in the NFL before retiring.

It’s 33 years in prison for a man convicted of sexually assaulting a girl, then trying to have her murdered. A judge in Washburn County on Friday sentenced Russell Wilson to more than three decades behind bars for sexual assault and murder for hire. Investigators say Wilson tried to hire a hitman to kill the girl and her mother before his trial began. A jury convicted him back in March.

Coronavirus cases in Wisconsin are at their lowest point since the end of last March. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the seven-day positivity rate in Wisconsin is down to just over one-percent. New cases are at their lowest since March 28th of 2020. Just over 49-percent of people in the state have had one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, and DHS says 44-percent of people have gotten both doses.

There is a new study that questions why so many people in Wisconsin are required to get a license just to do their jobs. The Badger Institute and the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday released a report that says over a million people in the state need a ‘government permission slip’ to do their jobs. Everyone from doctors and lawyers, to barbers and hairdressers need a license to work in Wisconsin. The report suggests cutting that number dramatically, and adopting a Right to

Wisconsin’s largest business group is trying to answer Governor Tony Evers’ claim that there’s no evidence the enhanced federal unemployment benefits are keeping people from returning to work.  Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce yesterday pointed to research from a UW-Madison economist, data from the hiring website Indeed, and comments from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco that all say the extra 300 dollars a week in federal unemployment is enough to keep some people from returning to work. Governor Evers over

Environmental groups want to get involved in a Wisconsin lawsuit over pollution control laws.  Midwest Environmental Advocates asked the Waukesha County Circuit Court if they could help defend the state in the lawsuit.  Wisconsin Manufactures and Commerce and Leather Rich Inc. claim the state is violating the law regarding environmental cleanup programs because they changed the rules without following the process.  MEA says going through the rule-making process is too hard and doesn’t mean the rules will be implemented.

A project to expand and remodel Chippewa Valley Technical College’s Emergency Service Education Center (ESEC) is underway, with a construction kick-off event held today at the facility on CVTC’s West Campus. The $10.6 million project is the second-largest part of CVTC’s $48.8 million referendum approved in April 2020. The project includes 27,800 sq. ft. In additions and 24,400 sq. ft. Of remodeling. Among the features area larger indoor firearms range; dedicated spaces for simulations; increased classroom spaces; facilitiesfor fitness, defense