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There will be more law enforcement on the road in Wisconsin starting today until Labor Day. Wisconsin State Patrol says the focus of the campaign is to look out for impaired driving. The Department of Transportation says more than 77-hundred crashes in Wisconsin last year involved drugs or alcohol, and nearly half of fatal crashes also involved intoxicated driving. There were almost 19-thousand O-W-I convictions statewide in 2023. 

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is getting a new secretary. Current secretary Craig Thompson’s last day will be September eleventh of this year, and is taking a job at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Governor Tony Evers says Kristina Boardman will take over the position, and will be the first woman to do so. She’s currently the deputy secretary with the Wisconsin DOT, and previously worked as an administrator at the state Division of Motor Vehicles.

You likely know the classic tale of the tortoise and the hare, but this week we meet a tortoise who gets himself  into a hairy situation.  This week’s Friday Feel Good takes us to the West Coast where cops in Portland, Oregon randomly found someone’s pet tortoise walking down a path.  His name is Bowser, he’d been missing two days, and somehow made it to the other side of a busy highway.   Sgt. Kevin Allen talking about the rescue and the miracle that got

Authorities in Lake Hallie have an update after a string of vehicle thefts. Between June 27th and August 6, 2024, there were multiple vehicle thefts and thefts from  vehicles that occurred in neighborhoods throughout the Village of Lake Hallie. One of those  vehicle thefts resulted in a short vehicle pursuit on July 27, 2024. On August 8, 2024,  investigators identified a suspect based on information obtained from Crime Stoppers and the  Chippewa Falls Police Department. On August 14, 2024, a Lake

A man is dead after a motorcycle wreck in Chippewa Falls earlier this week. Chippewa Falls Police say the wreck happened Tuesday near the new Kwik Trip on Chippewa Crossing Boulevard. Officers say it looks like the 31-year-old man was speeding and hit a light pole. The investigation into the cause of the crash is on-going.

There aren’t many answers about a small plane crash in Chetek on Wednesday. Police say the plane went down at the Municipal Airport on Wednesday. The pilot was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Eau Claire because of his injuries. Police are identifying the pilot as 34-year-old Travis Turner of Cameron, Wisconsin. Both local and federal investigators say they are looking into the crash.

Eau Claire is not waiting to deal with the so-called forever chemicals in its water. The city yesterday broke ground on a new plant that is designed to remove PFAS chemicals from the city’s water supply. The 20 million-dollar facility comes a year-and-a-half after the city closed about half of its wells because of high PFAS levels as there are growing worries about the chemicals. Constriction is expected to take about a year-and-a-half.

Wisconsin’s latest jobs report shows thousands of lost jobs last month. The unemployment report for July shows the private sector lost 85 hundred jobs last month. The total non-farm jobs number dropped 65-hundred jobs. Still, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate held steady at three percent, and the labor participation rate held steady at 65-and-a-half percent. That labor participation rate is better than the national rate, but is still lower than Wisconsin’s rate before COVID.

Land continues to get more valuable in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Revenue released its latest Equalized Values Report. It shows the total value of all the land in the state is sitting at 907 billion-dollars, an increase of 75 billion from last year. Residential land continues to be the most valuable, worth just over 667 billion, followed by Wisconsin’s commercial properties. However, farmland and forest land saw the biggest jumps in their value. Both went up 11 percent last

Some of the hundreds of thousands of people who are expected to come to Green Bay for next spring’s NFL Draft could be sleeping in a camper at EAA. EAA yesterday said they are looking to open-up their facility to draft-goers. Managers say they have one thousand spots available for campers. Dick Knapinski says Detroit used a number of campgrounds when it hosted the draft in April of this year, and he said there’s no reason to think Green Bay