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UW-Madison leaders have agreed to another meeting with campus protesters. A school spokesman said that yesterday’s meeting was productive, and said they’ve agreed to meet again. Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin said earlier this week that she’d be willing to meet with protest organizers to talk about their demands, but only after they removed their tents. The university ordered police to do that on Wednesday. Mnookin reportedly told protest leaders yesterday that she has no plans to do that again. The protesters

Folks in Altoona could soon be paying more for water. Altoona’s Municipal Water and Sewer Utility this week asked the Wisconsin Public Service Commission for permission to raise water rates. The city says it needs the price hike to keep-up with expenses. Altoona last raised its water rates back in 2015. The proposed price hike would raise over a half-million dollars a-year. That comes to an extra eight dollars per-month per-customer.

Wisconsin’s task force on AI is slowly building to some recommendations. The Governor’s Task Force on AI will meet again next week in Wausau. This task force is focused on how AI can help workers and businesses in the state, Wisconsin’s Department of Workforce Development is in charge. Monday’s meeting will focus on how AI can be used to help Wisconsin farmers. No one is saying just when the task force will deliver a report to the governor.

No one is saying just what caused a beer truck to crash and spill its contents all over I-41 yesterday morning. The truck wrecked near Pilgrim Road in Waukesha County. Menomonee Falls Police say dozens of cases of Miller Lite spilled across the interstate. Authorities closed I-41’s northbound lanes from about 8:30 yesterday morning til about 2:30 yesterday afternoon. There’s no word on the driver’s condition.

One of Wisconsin’s Most Wanted is under arrest at the Mall of America.  Israel Israel spent time in prison for sexually assaulting a woman while armed with a weapon in 1988.  After his release from prison for those charges, he was quickly put back in prison for non-compliance. He was released again last September, but cut off his GPS monitor and went on the run within days. Investigators tell Fox News 6 out of Milwaukee that Israel had applied for

The first ever Wisconsin’s Best Burger has been decided. The Wisconsin Beef Council says the burger at Pickles Bar and Grill in Hazelhurst won the contest. The Northern Wisconsin restaurant’s All American Burger won the honor. It features half a pound of beef, lettuce, tomato, onion, smoked garlic mayo, and the customer’s choice of cheese. Pickles was one of eight final competitors. 

The first peregrine falcon chick of this year’s nesting season from sites at We Energies facilities has hatched. The baby falcon was born at the Valley Power Plant in Milwaukee to father, Rolo, and an unbanded female. The avian couple has nested together two years in a row. Hundreds of the chicks have been hatched at We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service facilities since the early 90s. More than a fifth of peregrine falcons born in the wild in Wisconsin

There will be no police action against pro-Palestine protestors on UW-Madison’s campus for the next 24 hours. Students met with UW-Madison’s Chancellor, Jennifer Mnookin today on the fourth day of protests. The protestors have been staying in tents on campus, which the university says is a violation of school policy.  Police arrested 34 people and cited four at the Dane County Jail yesterday, after they were instructed by the University to take down the tents. Students will meet with the

Above Photo: UW-Stout’s esports Valorant team is the Wisconsin collegiate champion. Team members, from left, are Noah Filtz, Coach Tobey Riedmann, JJ Hanson, Nathan Lenz, Em Humphrey and Hoang Dang.  An esports team from University of Wisconsin-Stout is a state collegiate champion. The Blue Devils’ Valorant squad defeated UW-Madison Red 3-0 in the best-of-five Grand Final to take the Wisconsin Valorant Summit LAN championship. UW-Stout won 13-5, 13-5 and 13-1. The finals win capped off a perfect run in the

Wisconsin is getting more Amtrak service. Amtrak yesterday announced new train service between Chicago and Minneapolis-St. Paul. That means two trains each day that will connect Milwaukee, Columbus, Portage, the Wisconsin Dells, Tomah, and La Crosse. One train will leave from Milwaukee in the morning, and the other will leave from the Twin Cities during the middle of the day. Amtrak is calling the new service the Borealis Line. It begins May 21st.