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It’s the anniversary of the first case of coronavirus to be treated in Madison.  Yesterday marked a year since UW Health attended to its first COVID-19 patient in University Hospital.  The patient had recently returned from a trip to China where exposure to the disease happened.  Recovery time for the patient was around a month.  It was the first case in Wisconsin and the 12th reported case in the United States.

A nearly idle COVID-19 field hospital at the State Fair Park in West Allis may soon be repurposed.  The site was originally converted and set up to treat COVID-19 patients but hasn’t had a patient since Christmas Eve.  On Friday, state health officials said one option under consideration is to turn the location into a COVID-19 vaccination hub.  The site is still in use as an outpatient clinic for those who receive antibody therapy infusions. No firm date has yet

An arrest in Washburn County adds another OWI to a man’s record. It was about 2:45 in the morning on Saturday, Jan 30th when  the Wisconsin State Patrol responded to a vehicle in the ditch on Fox Rd near County Rd N. A subsequent investigation including standardized field sobriety test was conducted. 60-year-old Timothy S. Ganz was arrested for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of an intoxicant 6th offense. A warrant was obtained for an evidentiary blood

Hello. Welcome to your Saturday and thank you for clicking in with us. The week of news can feel heavy and sometimes overwhelming, so we like to start the weekend on a lighter note with a “scroll down memory lane.” So, grab your favorite sippin’ drink and let’s take a trip back on the pages of history and flip through events that have happened along the way to lead us here to this day. We’re glad you’re here! Today is

A book is back on the shelves of a Nova Scotia library after it was checked out decades ago.  Jim Forbes has more.

It’s not for us here locally, but it is coming for some parts of our state. A winter storm advisory goes into effect this morning in Madison.  The weatherman says a storm system out of the southwest is expected to bring a heavy, wet snowfall starting in earnest tonight and into Sunday.  Six-or more inches of snow are predicted for counties immediately south of Dane County. Madison could get from four to six inches by midday, Sunday.

Family and friends gather to remember three people who died in a house fire last week in Grant County.  A gathering of hundreds of community members took place last night in Blue River to memorialize 12-year old Fredrick Hurley and his 14-year old sister Barbara along with family friend 33-year old Andrew Brown.  The group sold items to raise funds for the families of the victims.  There are two GoFundMe pages set up as well to help out.  The Fire

One of two venues is now established to host the upcoming state interscholastic basketball tournaments.   The La Crosse Center will be one of the two venues, the second of which has yet to be named.  The WIAA girls tournament is February 25 through 27 while the boys edition happens March 4 through 6.  Each division will have two semi finals and a championship game.  Keep up to date under the Tournaments tab at WIAAWI-dot-Org.

A Sauk County community is in need of bottled drinking water after contaminants were found in the water supply.  Officials in the Village Of La Valle say the town’s only well has benzene at levels that put public health at risk.  Village President Rockie Sobeck says state health officials detected the chemical last March but levels kept rising leading to a ban on using the water in December which is still in effect now.  Sobeck said the Second Harvest Foodbank

Health Department officials confirm 15-hundred-and-67 positive COVID-19 cases statewide today.  The number of total cases since the beginning of the pandemic is just under 540-thousand.  Officials also report 49 additional deaths to raise the death toll to five-thousand-860.  There are currently over 20-thousand active coronavirus cases in the state. FOR MORE FROM WI DHS, CLICK HERE.