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Wisconsin’s governor wants lawmakers to do something about flooding that is expected to hit the state this spring. But lawmakers are done for the year. Governor Tony Evers yesterday asked lawmakers to consider a package of new laws that would boost flood spending in Wisconsin and make sure the state covers half the cost of repairing flood damaged roads and bridges. Forecasters expect major flooding in many parts of the state this spring. But the proposals are too late. The State Assembly

Taxpayers in southeast Wisconsin will stop paying for Miller Park at the end of the month. The Southeast Wisconsin Professional Baseball Park District yesterday voted to end the point-one-percent sales tax in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Ozaukee, Washington and Racine counties on March 31st. Taxpayers have been paying for the stadium since 1996. The tax has taken more than 600-million-dollars from taxpayers since then. Stadium district chairman Don Smiley says the vote to officially end the tax is making good on a nearly 25-year-old promise.

President Trump is coming back to Wisconsin. The president’s campaign yesterday said the president will be in Milwaukee for a rally next Thursday. The rally is to launch the Catholics for Trump initiative. The rally will be at the Wisconsin Center.

There is a second confirmed case of coronavirus in Dane County and the third in the state.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services announced this morning that the patient is in isolation.  Officials with Public Health Madison and Dane County says they are in the process of contacting those people who may have been in contact with the patient.  The patient did not travel outside of the United States and is quarantined at home.

Wisconsin’s high school graduation rate continues to trend upward.  The education department reported today that over the past five years the graduation rate has increased one-point-six-percent.  It has improved each of those years and in 2019, the graduation rate statewide was 90 percent. The numbers are for the 2018-2019 school year. While 90 percent of students overall are getting a diploma in four years, those numbers drop to 71 percent when looking at African American students in the state, and

If getting paid to watch Disney movies sounds like a fairy tale, you might have met your Happily Ever After. A website is looking for somebody with an “overall enthusiasm for Disney.”  Dean Miuccio has the details. CLICK HERE FOR MORE!

The Eau Claire community is rallying together in response to a recent Trump Administration proposal to deport immigrants. Last month the administration proposed the deportation of Hmong and Lao people who are not U-S citizens and have committed crimes or have deportation orders.  A rally was held before an Eau Claire city council meeting last night and the council passed a resolution condemning the administration’s proposal. Citizens say the rally was meant as a sign of solidarity with the council’s

Altoona is under a reduced water pressure warning this morning.  Public Works issued the warning to swap out a broken valve that will reduce water pressure in some neighborhoods around the city.  Public Works says the project will begin at 9 a.m. and end at 11 a.m. 

It was a little before 7:30 on the evening of Monday, March 9th when a Trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding on Tower Avenue in the City of Superior. The driver was identified as 61 year old Donald F. Belanger and he showed signs of impairment. A subsequent investigation, including standardized field sobriety testing, showed that Belanger was operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated with this being his 7th offense. He is being charged with operating a motor vehicle while