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Wisconsin is dealing with a massive winter storm that is also beating down on much of the country this weekend.  Freezing rain, sleet and snow has inundated south-central Wisconsin.  Forecasters say the northern part of the state will see blizzard-like conditions.  The National Weather Service says early yesterday morning, about a tenth to two-tenths of an inch of ice began settling in the Madison-area.  The Southern part of the state is set to get mostly rain, with a chance of

A Snow Event has been declared and will go into effect at 12-midnight Sunday, 2/24/19 and will end at 5 p.m. on 2/26/19. Please note this is a NEW Snow Event. Alternate Side Parking rules will be enforced between 12-midnight and 5 p.m. each day of the Snow Event. ·       On odd-numbered dates vehicles should be parked on the side of the street having odd-numbered addresses. ·       On even-numbered dates vehicles should be parked on the side of the street having even-numbered addresses.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is accepting responsibility for a false statement he made earlier in the week.  Yesterday, Evers’ staff admitted that the Governor made a mistake in his remarks when promoting his broad marijuana plan.  In a statement and a tweet, Evers incorrectly said “drug related crimes account for as many as 75-85 percent of all inmates of our prisons.”  Evers’ spokeswoman Melissa Baldauff said that stat is wrong and it was pulled from a 2013 WUWM radio article

Authorities are identifying a woman who died when a semi-trailer truck crashed into the frozen Mirror Lake in Sauk County.  Police say 24-year-old passenger Devenna Patterson of Elizabethtown, Kentucky died Sunday, along with the driver of the truck, 39-year-old Timothy Green.  Authorities say the truck strayed off the Interstate 90/94 on a bridge over Mirror Lake.  The truck apparently dropped about 100 feet and crashed through the ice-covered lake. 

A Foxconn executive is sharing his vision of the company at a manufacturing conference in Milwaukee.  On Thursday, Foxconn’s vice president of business operations Bill Mitchell said, “We’re building the airplane while we’re flying and we’re redesigning it.” He used that analogy to describe the Foxconn Technology Group’s Wisconsin plans.  Mitchell told the group of about 500 people at the conference that working for the company has been challenging but interesting.  Mitchell said the Mount Pleasant development is something that

Dane County officials are entering a partnership to turn trash into natural gas.  Dane County Executive Joe Parisi announced yesterday that Kwik Trip will soon start selling fuel made from landfill trash.  Parisi says the project will convert trash and cow manure from the Dane County landfill into compressed natural gas.  That gas will then be sold at 35 Kwik Trip stations in the Midwest. 

The average price for a gallon of regular gas in Wisconsin is up 12-cents from a week ago.  Triple-A says the cost statewide today is two-dollars-and-33-cents, while the national average is two-38-a-gallon.  The lowest prices are posted in the Sheboygan area at two-28.  Drivers in the Pierce-St. Croix County area are paying the most at the pump at two-42-for regular.

A scam involving paying for prayers is hitting Madison and South-Central Wisconsin.  Officials for SSM-St. Mary’s Hospitals in Madison and Janesville are concerned because the robocaller identifies themselves as from ‘St. Mary Prayer Center Ministry.’  SSM says it’s chaplin’s are available for patients without cost and ask anyone who gets a call from ‘St. Mary Prayer Center Ministry ‘ to hang up and call the Consumer Protection Bureau.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers says Milwaukee is Milwaukee, and Miami is Miami.  The governor yesterday said he’s not worried about a report in Politico that says Democratic donors are complaining that Milwaukee is not fancy enough to host the Democratic National Convention next summer.  Evers said Miami may be hurting its chances by running down Milwaukee.  The city is considered the favorite to win the convention, a decision could come in the next few weeks. 

Bloomer Police Chief Jared Zwiefelhofer is getting himself into more trouble.  According to the Department of Natural Resources, Zwiefelhofer has admitted to shooting and killing a wounded deer with his city-issued AR-style patrol gun.  Zwiefelhofer has also admitted to using bait near a stand and operating a UTV with a loaded gun, charges he pleaded no contest to.  Zwiefelhofer is stepping down as Chippewa County Board Chair next month but will stay on the board as a member.