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A Pewaukee girl has been crowned Miss Wisconsin Teen.  The pageant was held last night at Alberta Kimball Auditorium at Oshkosh West High School, and featured performances from 23 Wisconsin girls competing for the title.  This year’s winner was Ella Bey from Pewaukee.  Bey will now compete for Miss America’s Teen.

A University of Wisconsin swimmer has qualified for the Summer Olympics.  Phoebe Bacon finished second last night in the 200-meter backstroke at the USA Swimming Trials in Indianapolis.  The win earned Bacon the final qualifying spot in the upcoming games.  It will be Bacon’s second Olympic appearance.  She finished fifth in the backstroke in the 2020 Games.

This time of year there are always graduation parties sprinkled in among the Summer activities and for this week’s Friday Feel Good we check in with a special cap and gown…  A 105-year-old just got her master’s from Stanford 83 years late.  She finished all her classes back in 1941, but never finished her senior thesis because Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.  Stanford doesn’t have a thesis requirement for a Master of Arts degree anymore so they decided she deserved her diploma.   Virginia Hislop

On June 21, 2024 at 3:16AM, the Sawyer County Dispatch Center received a 911 call reporting a single vehicle rollover with multiple injuries. The crash was located on Highline Road south of the intersection of Williams Road in the Town of Bass Lake. Sawyer County Sheriff’s Deputies assisted by the City and Town of Hayward Police Departments, LCO Police Department, Sawyer County EMS, Wisconsin State Patrol, Town of Bass Lake & Town of Hayward Fire Departments and the City of

A few days after the St. Croix Valley Habitat for Humanity celebrated its 28th year of helping families access safe, affordable housing in Wisconsin, a local mother and healthcare worker, Taylor, and her two children joined volunteers on a snowy afternoon in March to break ground on their new home in Ellsworth. Staff from USDA Rural Development were on hand for the occasion, including Jackie, Taylor’s assigned Loan Specialist at USDA Rural Development.   Jackie started working with Taylor in early February 2024.

The bald eagle has been part of the Great Seal of the United States since 1782 but there has never been a push to name it America’s National Bird. Several Minnesota lawmakers are trying to change that with the introduction of a bipartisan bill to give the bald eagle that title. Democratic Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith are working with Wyoming Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis to push the bill through the Senate. A companion bill has also been introduced

We’re getting some answers about a month-old killing in Trempealeau County. Prosecutors provided some details yesterday about the May 15th killing in Ettrick. Investigators say the suspect in the case, Todd Gieck, shot and killed the victim, Kyle Dahl, as he was driving home from his family farm. Dahl’s body was found in a ditch off the highway, and the Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office refused to release any information about the case. Prosecutors say Gieck told investigators that he was

There could be a  ‘resolution’ coming in the neglect case against Elijah Vue’s mom. Lawyers for Katrina Bauer yesterday suggested that could be coming, but they did not say what that means. Bauer is being held on neglect charges in connection with Vue’s disappearance. He’s been missing since February, when he was last seen at Bauer’s boyfriend’s home. That boyfriend is also being held on neglect charges. Bauer is next scheduled to be in court in Manitowoc on July 1st.

Eau Claire is ready with another bus tracking app. The city yesterday said its new bus tracker will launch in August. The new app will replace the old TransLoc which Eau Claire dropped last summer because it had too many bugs. The new app is supposed to be better, and is supposed to let people know when the bus will be arriving at their stop. The new app is being paid for by the city, s Eau Claire is using

A Republican lawmaker from Green Bay says he plans to try again with a law that would allow parents to set a curfew on their kids’ social media accounts. State Rep. David Steffen yesterday said he plans to reintroduce his Kids Online Safety Act. The idea is to have a law that allows for a ‘sleep mode’ for social media accounts, and that would ban certain algorithms, targeted ads, and direct messages for accounts held by children. Steffen introduced the