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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) is announcing that Western Technical College, in collaboration with eight other colleges from the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS), will receive over $5.7 million to help students prepare for careers in advanced manufacturing. The grant will be used to expand training capacity, skill development, and credentialing within advanced manufacturing programs. “Wisconsin’s technical and community colleges equip students with the education and skills they need to land good-paying jobs and grow our local economy,” said Senator Baldwin. “Wisconsin has

The week started off with Eclipse excitement for many. Whether or not you traveled to get the perfect view, took a glance up but didn’t notice much, or waited to see the photos captured by others, here at the end of the week we can reflect on the event that many marked with something special, including couples who’s loved seems to be written in the stars.  A bunch of couples at an Arkansas park got married during the eclipse on Monday.  It was

It’s a guilty verdict in the Apple River stabbing case. The jury yesterday found Nicolae Miu guilty of stabbing five people, and killing one of them, while they were tubing on the river back in 2022. The jury convicted him on a reckless homicide charge, which is less serious than a first-degree homicide charge. Miu claimed self-defense, and said the group of teens that he stabbed attacked him first. He is facing 60 years in prison. You can see more

The teenager who tossed a fuel barrel into a bonfire in Shawano County back in 2022 has been sentenced to prison time. A judge yesterday sentenced 18-year-old Sam Armstrong to one year in prison and five years probation. He pleaded guilty to throwing a mostly-empty barrel that once had fuel in it into the fire during a party in Pulaski in October of 2022. Several other teenagers were hurt when the barrel exploded, including one who was seriously burned. Armstrong

More than 300 people in Rusk County now have to decide if they’re going to move with their jobs to Illinois. JELD-WEN yesterday announced it is closing its window plant in Hawkins, in Rusk County. The company says it’s consolidating the plant into another facility in central Illinois. About 340 people work at the plant in Hawkins. The company says they will have the opportunity to apply for open jobs at the Illinois plant. The company says most of the

Governor Evers is going on the air to ding Republicans for not giving him 15 million-dollars for western Wisconsin’s hospitals. The governor used his weekly radio address yesterday to bash the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee for not releasing the emergency funding that the governor signed-off on weeks ago. Republicans approved that money to go to hospitals in the Chippewa Valley to replace the emergency room services that disappeared when HSHS closed its hospitals in Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls. The

The next race for supreme court in Wisconsin just got more interesting. Longtime liberal Justice Ann Walsh Bradley yesterday announced that she is not running for re-election. Bradley has been on the court for nearly 30 years, and said it’s time to pass the torch. Her decision opens-up the race for Democrats. Former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel is running. Yesterday he said he’s running for the court, not against someone else. Next year’s supreme court race is expected to

Wisconsin’s state superintendent of schools is calling the latest look at the state’s teacher shortage a crisis. The Department of Public Instruction released a report yesterday that says 40 percent of new teachers don’t last six years in the classroom, and 30 percent of wanna-be teachers never even make it into a classroom. Superintendent Jill Underly said Wisconsin’s teacher shortage is most desperate when it comes to special education teachers. Underly is blaming Act 10, which changed how teachers can

Lucy the Elephant is in the running for best roadside attraction in the United States.  The iconic structure in Margate on the Jersey Shore is competing against 18 other landmarks, including a towering Dalmation fire hydrant in Texas, in a USA Today poll.  The 142-year-old Jersey Shore icon stands six stories high and houses a museum.  You can vote up until May 6th, once a day, with the top ten winners being announced on May 15th and you can CLICK

Doctors say one of the suspects in the Slender Man stabbing is not ready to leave Wisconsin’s state mental hospital. In 2014, Morgan Geyser and a friend, both 12-years-old, were arrested after stabbing their friend, also 12, nineteen times. Geyser, who was later diagnosed with schizophrenia, believed the girls were appeasing the fictional character Slender Man. The victim survived, and Geyser and the friend were forced to undergo psychiatric treatment. Geyser was in court yesterday to request to be discharged