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Highway-153 in Marathon County was closed this week for an unusual reason.  The Marathon County Sheriff’s Department says a plane was using the road as a runway after several attempts to take-off failed. The sheriff’s department says the pilot was finally able to get airborne and continue to Eau Claire. 

Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus snapshot shows who is most at risk of dying from the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Human Services yesterday updated the state’s coronavirus count. So far, just over one thousand people have died with the virus. DHS says over 900 of those people were over the age of 60. DHS yesterday reported 943 new positive tests and almost 12 thousand negative tests. There are 354 people in the hospital with the virus, 109 of them are in

Wisconsin’s governor says the state’s mask mandate applies to everyone, even the President of the United States. Governor Tony Evers yesterday told reporters that he expects President Trump to wear a face mask when the president speaks in Oshkosh on Monday. The governor said the president, the vice president, and the crowd need to abide by the state’s mask requirement and wear a mask while inside. President Trump is coming to Oshkosh on what would have been the first day

People across Wisconsin can now see where the state’s two billion-dollars in coronavirus stimulus money has gone. Governor Evers yesterday unveiled a website that shows how the money has been spent. Over 300 million-dollars of the money has gone to local governments or healthcare providers in the state. But there’s also been money spent on farmers, rental assistance, and the UW System. The governor’s office says Wisconsin still has about 300 million-dollars to spend. CLICK HERE FOR MORE PANDEMIC INFORMATION AND RESPONSE

The head of the Department of Health Services, Andrea Palm, yesterday said people shouldn’t go to Packer games this year. Palm told reporters that having fans at Lambeau Field could spread the coronavirus. The Packers have already closed Lambeau for the first two home games of the season because of the virus, but are open to welcoming fans back in November.

If you are over 60 and need a new drivers’ license, you can relax. The DMV yesterday said it is giving older drivers until November 23rd to renew their drivers’ licenses. The state has pushed back the deadline for all sorts of DMV renewals because of the coronavirus. There are still some DMV offices that are closed to walk-in visitors, and the waits at other facilities are long.

Wisconsin’s restaurant owners are not happy that organizers of Milwaukee’s Democratic National Convention are putting bars and restaurants on a no-go list. The state’s Restaurant Association yesterday said bars and restaurants have alway supported the convention, and it stings that organizers have now told DNC visitors not to go out to eat. Bars and restaurants across the Milwaukee-area were expecting huge crowds from the convention, now they expect very little.

It was just before 10:30 on the morning of August 12th when the Sawyer County Dispatch Center received a 911 call of a semi-tractor trailer crash on State Highway 70 east of Loretta / Draper in the Town of Draper. S Initial investigation and eye witness statements indicate that a semi-tractor trailer operated by 37 year old Clifford J. Hinkens, of Coon Rapids Minnesota was traveling east on State Highway 70 near Broadway Road. The semi-tractor trailer left the roadway,

A traffic stop leads to a drug bust in Sawyer County. It was on August 11th when the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Department and the City of Hayward Police Department completed an investigation into illegal drug trafficking in the Sawyer County area. A bit before 2 in the afternoon, information was obtained which led to a traffic stop of a 2004 black BMW driven by Calvin Douglas Riley, 29, of Webster, WI. The investigation indicated Riley was transporting a large amount

 The State Department of Health says positive COVID-19 cases nearly doubled in the last 24 hours.  They were 478 cases reported on Wednesday and today officials say 943 new positive tests were recorded.  That means the rolling daily average is 775 cases.  The positivity rate jumped to seven-point-six-percent today.  Seven new deaths are confirmed to bring the total number of coronavirus fatalities to one-thousand-and-18 Wisconsinites.