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Vice President JD Vance is set to visit Wisconsin tomorrow with a stop at a machining facility in Plover. This comes after President Trump’s State of the Union address, with the White House saying Vance will highlight administration accomplishments. The event will take place in Representative Derrick Van Orden’s district. Van Orden is expected to join Vance during the stop.

WisDOT is updating several state-supported intercity bus routes to improve connections statewide. The changes include a new Route 11 offering direct service between La Crosse and Green Bay. The routes operate in partnership with Greyhound, Indian Trails, Jefferson Lines, Lamers Bus, and Wisconsin Transit Lines. Department officials say the updates better link rural and mid-sized communities with major hubs including Milwaukee, Chicago, and Minneapolis. The announcement also reshuffles service providers on multiple routes to maintain regional connectivity.

Wisconsin Public Service says colder temperatures and higher gas prices are driving up energy bills. The utility says this is the coldest winter in about a decade, and gas costs are up roughly 18-percent from last year. Officials say increased demand locally and nationwide has pushed prices higher, though WPS does not profit from the gas it buys. WPS says it uses storage and fixed contracts to help manage price swings. Customers struggling with higher bills are urged to contact

Attorney General Josh Kaul says Wisconsin is joining a lawsuit over federal changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. Attorneys general from 14 other states, along with the governor of Pennsylvania, are also part of the effort. The suit challenges the Trump administration’s decision to remove several vaccines, including rotavirus, hepatitis A and B, and COVID-19. State health leaders report responding to measles cases in 2025 and 2026, including 36 in late 2025. Officials say all cases involved unvaccinated people.

Author Brian Reisinger will discuss his book, “Land Rich, Cash Poor: My Family’s Hope and the Untold History of the Disappearing American Farmer,” on Wednesday, March 11, at 5 p.m. at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls in the Kinnickinnic River Theater in the University Center, 501 Wild Rose Ave. The event is free and open to the public.    Reisinger will discuss the forces driving the decline of family farms and their impact on the nation’s food supply, drawing on four generations of his family’s Wisconsin dairy farming experience. A Q&A and book signing

Warren Rott is having a good month. The Black Falls resident won $2,000,000 playing a $2,000,000 CA$H scratch ticket he purchased from the Taylor Corner Store on W16211 State Rd. 95 in Taylor. Rott claimed his prize at the Madison Lottery office on Monday. $2,000,000 CA$H is a Wisconsin Lottery $50 scratch ticket that debuted on May 2, 2025, with 10 different prize levels ranging from $75 to $2,000,000. Since the beginning of the year, five players have won a $5,000 prize from the game

A Comstock man charged in connection with a fire that destroyed Shooters Showgirls in Elk Mound is pleading guilty.  Colton Jansen faced arson charges stemming from the January 2025 fire.  Despite Jansen’s plea on Tuesday, he was found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect.  A sentencing hearing is scheduled for a later date. 

In Buffalo County, Mondovi schools were placed on lockdown for a time on Tuesday with reports of a possibly armed teenager walking through the city’s downtown area.  Police located the 16-year-old and determined that they were unarmed and posed no threat.  Buffalo County Sheriff Mike Osmond reminds folks to play it safe and that if they see something that doesn’t seem right, they should say something. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

The UW – Madison women’s hockey players who took part in the Olympics are back in Wisconsin. The gold-medal winners who played for Team USA arrived at Dane County Airport Monday night following their trip to Italy. That includes current players Ava McNaughton, Caroline Harvey, Laila Edwards, and Kirsten Simms. Former Badger players Hillary Knight and Britta Curl-Salemme were also on the USA roster. The Americans won the gold medal against Canada in overtime last Thursday.

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD), today announced nine businesses and organizations in eight Wisconsin counties across the state will collectively receive $250,000 in commercial driver training grants. These grants are part of the Commercial Driver Training Grant program and work to support businesses and organizations that offer training for trainees to obtain their Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) with the goal of bolstering Wisconsin’s driving workforce, such as school bus drivers, truck drivers, delivery