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Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers continue to tick-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just over a thousand new positives. That is the largest number of new cases in one day since mid-February. DHS says hospitalizations are flat, for now. Yesterday, there were 268 people in the hospital with the virus, including 66 in the ICU. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. When it comes to the vaccination efforts, Wisconsin continues to cross thresholds. The state’s Department of Health Services

Almost all of Wisconsin is in near-drought conditions.   Trent Rice reports.

The race for Congress in western Wisconsin could be a rematch next fall. Republican Derrick Van Orden yesterday said he’s running again. Van Orden lost to longtime Democratic Congressman Ron Kind by 11-thousand votes last fall. Van Orden says hundreds of people across western Wisconsin have asked him to run again.

 Wisconsin’s attorney general wants more power to make cases against people who he says are discriminating against others. Sue Danielson reports. A-G Josh Kaul yesterday asked lawmakers to expand his power to cover discrimination in housing, employment, and education. Kaul doesn’t have any examples of cases where he was limited and couldn’t file charges. Democratic lawmakers in Madison say the new powers are needed to make up for the lack of equity in housing, schools, and healthcare.

Tens of thousands of low-income kids in Wisconsin missed-out on extra food stamp money because the state’s Department of Public Instruction doesn’t know where they live. A new report says the state failed to get the kids, and their families, over 12-hundred-dollars in extra benefits that were supposed to make-up for the meals the kids were missing at school. The report says DPI doesn’t have addresses for over 78-thousand kids in the state. Neither Governor Evers’ office, the state’s Department of Health

The Wisconsin Department of Health is confirming over a thousand positive COVID-19 cases today.  The one-thousand-and-46 new cases pushes the total to nearly 583-thousand.  There were 14 additional deaths reported today raising the death toll statewide from the coronavirus to more than 66-hundred. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

Senator Ron Johnson is getting an endorsement from former President Donald Trump.  In a statement today, the former president says he is supporting Johnson even though the Wisconsin Republican has not decided whether he will seek re-election.  In the past Johnson has said he would not seek a third term in the Senate next year but has since said he was “probably” not going to run.  Trump called Johnson brave and bold and says he will protect the Second Amendment and “everything

A medical incident could be behind a deadly crash in Chippewa County. It was on April 4th when the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Department responded to a vehicle in the ditch that was on fire near the intersection of CTH SS and 200th Ave in the Township of Bloomer. Upon arrival, Deputies located a Buick LeSabre in the ditch that was fully engulfed.  With the aid of the Fire Department the vehicle was distinguished. Upon further investigation a body was found in the

South Farwell Street will be closed starting Monday, April 12, starting at 7:00 am, from Seaver Street toEmery Street for utility work. A signed detour will be in place. The street is expected to be reopenedWednesday, April 14 by 6:00 pm, pending weather. Emery Street to South Barstow Street to Lake Street will be the planned detour.

The cause of George Floyd’s death is being discussed today in the murder trial of former Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin.  Prosecution witness, Dr. Martin Tobin, is taking the stand today.  Prosecution witness Dr. Martin Tobin testified that Floyd died from a low level of oxygen which caused damage to his brain and ultimately caused his heart to stop.  Yesterday, forensic scientists said they found Floyd’s blood stains and white pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine at the crime scene.  Additionally,