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A donation from the Couillard Solar Foundation will significantly increase the energy harvested through solar energy at the Chippewa Valley Technical College’s Energy Education Center and provide expanded learning opportunities for students. An 80-kW system is currently being installed with the help of students in the solar and wind applications class in the Heating, Ventilation, Air Conditioning and Refrigeration program. ABOVE PHOTO DETAILS: Installing the first solar panel on what will be an 80 kW system at CVTC’s Energy Education

The reward for information on whoever killed the cats in Dunn County is now up to 10 thousand-dollars. The Humane Society of the United States added five thousand-dollars to the pot on Friday. Investigators say 15 cats were shot and killed in the Dunnville Bottoms last week. Another 18 were found alive. The reward is for any information that leads to an arrest and conviction. The Dunn County Sheriff’s Office is leading the investigation.

The Kenosha County man accused, convicted, then cleared of his wife’s death back in 1998 is going to stay in jail a little while longer. A judge on Friday refused to lower Mark Jensen’s one-point-two million-dollar bond. Jensen was convicted in 2008 of poisoning his wife with antifreeze in 1998. But the Wisconsin Supreme Court vacated that conviction and ordered a new trial. The court ruled that prosecutors should never have used a letter from his wife that said if anything happened

There’s a push at the Wisconsin Capitol to have people in the state once again look for work to get unemployment benefits. State Senator Steve Nass says there are jobs going unfilled because the state’s Department of Workforce Development no longer requires people to apply for jobs in order to keep their unemployment benefits. Nass says with so many employers looking for people, anyone on unemployment should have no trouble finding a job.

 The state of Wisconsin is cutting its coronavirus vaccine order by 90-percent this week. The state’s Department of Health Services was scheduled to get over 162-thousand doses this week. Now, DHS says it needs just over 13-thousand. The massive drop in doses-ordered is a reflection of just how few people are getting the vaccine across the state. Doses last week fell to their lowest point since January. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. Rules continue to change around the state. Another Wisconsin school

The Republicans who will write the next state budget say Wisconsin is in great fiscal shape. Senator Howard Marklein last week said the Republican decision not to raise taxes or spending, as Governor Evers requested, has set the state up for a two-point-five-billion-dollar budget surplus in two years. Currently, Wisconsin’s surplus is sitting at one-point-eight-billion-dollars, and there’s another nearly one-billion-dollars in Wisconsin’s rainy day fund. Marklein says Wisconsin is in such good financial shape because of Republican spending decisions over the past decade.

People can return to their normal lives in Wisconsin and continue to declare themselves an indefinitely confined voter. The Wisconsin Elections Commission last week sent a letter to local clerks about cleaning-up their voter rolls. The Commission said clerks need ‘reliable information’ before deactivating an indefinitely confined voter. But Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe said simply seeing voters out and about, even returning a ballot to the election office, is not reliable enough. Lawmakers say indefinitely confined voters are supposed to be sick or homebound.

A pair of central Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to use some stimulus money to help reopen a closed paper mill. State  Rep. Scott Krug and Senator Patrick Testin last week suggested using 50-million-dollars in coronavirus relief money to help a coalition buy the former Verso mill in Wisconsin Rapids. The company closed the mill last summer, and over 900 people lost their jobs. The lawmakers say finding a new buyer would not only help those 900 workers, but would help timber companies across the

An accident over the weekend resulted in critical injures for those involved. It was on May 8, 2021 at 6:53 p.m., when Officers responded to the intersection of Lake Street and Sixth Avenue for a report of a crash involving a motorcycle and car. There were two people on the motorcycle when it collided with the car. As a result of the crash, the 21-year-old driver of the motorcycle and his 15-year-old brother were transported to a local hospital in

An educator from Milton is recognized as one of Wisconsin’s top teachers.  Yesterday WISC reported that Anna Miller of Harmony Elementary is being recognized for her teaching and professional excellence.  Miller is one of four educators to be selected for the Kohl Teacher Fellowship’s Wisconsin Teacher of the Year top award.