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If you are swapping the Christmas cookies for candy, you aren’t a Grinch. Across the Union there are favorites this time of year and we can unwrap the details. Entertainment experts at HubScore delved into the top 20 Christmas candies to analyze the top 5 most popular in each state. Kit Kat emerged as the nation’s favorite, however the people of Wisconsin are more interested in the chocolicious peanut butter goodness.  MOST POPULAR CHRISTMAS CANDIES IN WISCONSIN(The most popular Christmas candies in Wisconsin ranked

Police in Chippewa Falls say a woman is in custody after she drove through parts of the Christmas Village in Irvine Park. It happened yesterday morning. Officers say they got a call about someone running down Christmas decorations with a van about 7:45 a.m. When they arrived, police say parks department crews were trying to pen the woman’s van in. Eventually officers were able to stop the rampage and arrested 32-year-old Ebony Hudson of Loudon, Tennessee. Chippewa Falls Police say

People who work for the University of Wisconsin will get their pay raises, and Republican lawmakers will get a small victory over diversity, equity, and inclusion spending. UW regents yesterday changed their mind, and voted to accept the agreement that swapped 800 million-dollars for raises, a new engineering building at the Madison campus, and millions more for other needs in exchange for repurposing just over 40 DEI administrators. Three regents changed their minds. Yesterday’s vote came after regents voted-down the

All of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen voted for the impeachment inquiry into President Biden. In fact, every Republican on Capitol Hill voted for the inquiry yesterday. Western Wisconsin Congressman Derrick Van Orden says Congress has a ‘Constitutional duty’ to ensure the president is acting honestly and morally. Northwoods Congressman Tom Tiffany says the American people deserve some transparency as to whether the president benefited from his son’s foreign business dealings. The impeachment inquiry vote simply extends the House investigation into President

The latest round of train money in Wisconsin means Madison will need a new train station site, and quickly. Madison has been looking at six spots for a possible Amtrak station for years, but this month’s announcement of a half-million dollar grant to study a line from Madison to Minneapolis is jumpstarting the process. Madison Transportation Planner Liz Callin says the city is hoping to narrow those six spots down to one after a series of public meetings next month.

A new plan at the Wisconsin Capitol would make unauthorized homeless camps a crime. Much of the plan, Senate Bill 669, deals with allowing cities and counties to set-up spaces in parks or other public lands to allow homeless camps. But the legislation also has punishments for homeless people who stay somewhere else. Those include a 500 dollar fine, and up to 30 days in jail. Lawmakers held a hearing on the plan last week. It will likely come-up for

It’s a sad end to the story of Wisconsin’s lonely elk. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday said the young elk, known officially as Bull 357, died after being hit by a car in Illinois. The elk was spotted wandering around Wisconsin. He was seen near Wausau and in McFarland. The DNR says the elk was likely looking to mate, but couldn’t find a partner. The DNR says the elk died after being hit near Joliet, which is 40

A Tennessee woman was arrested in Chippewa after destroying parts of the popular Irving Park Christmas Village, apparently intentionally. Authorities received a report Wednesday morning, December 13th, that a vehicle was ramming into the fences and park displays at Irvine Park. According to Chippewa Falls police, while officers were responding to Irvine Park the vehicle started ramming a City Parks and Recreation vehicle that was occupied by a Parks employee. The driver of the vehicle was taken into custody and

A Mexican citizen is sentenced to five years in U-S federal prison for trafficking meth in Madison. Emmanuel Herrera Sanchez was caught in 2022 selling ten kilograms of meth – worth 49-thousand dollars – to a confidential informant. He was found to be part of a larger organized drug operation. The Chief U-S District Judge sentencing Herrera Sanchez says the drug crime is particularly serious due to the amount of meth involved.

A new Wisconsin program will give nearly 42-million dollars to reduce homelessness and expand affordable housing statewide. Governor Tony Evers says the HOME-American Rescue Plan will also support programs aiming to help low-income and housing-insecure families. The federal program was created in response to the COVID pandemic and is giving out five-billion nationally. Applicants looking to develop rental units and provide support services can apply for funding on the State of Wisconsin’s website.