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The Powerball jackpot is inching closer to a billion dollars after no one won last night. Lottery managers say Saturday night’s drawing will be worth 925 million-dollars. That would mean a lump sum payment of just over 430 million, before taxes of course. No one has won the big Powerball jackpot since July when someone in California hit a billion dollar winner.

A Frank Lloyd-Wright house is up for sale for the first time in 70 years. The home was built in 1916 and is being sold for one-and-a-half-million dollars, or fully furnished for nine-million. Frank Lloyd-Wright was an American architect born in Richland Center, Wisconsin. He designed more than one-thousand homes and buildings in his career. LEARN MORE ABOUT WRIGHT WITH A CLICK HERE.

PHOTO: Students first debuted their book and read excerpts at an event during the College’s investiture week, recently. Sting Chou has never been a fan of writing – even in his native language of Traditional Chinese. But that didn’t stop him from being one of many Chippewa Valley Technical College English Language Learner (ELL) students who willingly told fascinating and, many times, harrowing stories of things that have happened in their past and as immigrants to the United States. “Although

A vice president at Minnesota State University-Mankato will soon be leaving for a new job in Wisconsin. Lynn Akey has been named chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. Akey has been responsible for strategic planning at the Mankato college for the past decade and is credited with increasing student retention and graduation rates. She’ll begin her new job on January 2nd.

Investigation continues after a deadly crash in Taylor County. It was on September 26, 2023, at 2:54 p.m. the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call reporting a one vehicle accident with multiple injuries.  The location was reported to be on Oriole Dr. north of CTH-O in the Town of Medford, Taylor County. Emergency services were dispatched, including fire, ambulance, and law enforcement. Taylor County deputies were first on scene and found that all of the vehicle’s occupants had

A Black River Falls woman who stabbed her boyfriend to death two years ago is headed to prison for 10 years. A judge yesterday sentenced Kelly Schmidt to a decade in prison, followed by a decade of parole. She pleaded no contest to reckless homicide charges earlier this year. Jackson County deputies say she stabbed her boyfriend in the arm with a filet knife, and he died hours later.

Election managers in the state like the idea of being able to count absentee ballots before the polls close on Election Day. Lawmakers are considering a plan that would allow Wisconsin’s election clerks to count absentee ballots early. Milwaukee Election Commission director Claire Woodall-Vogg said allowing clerks more time to count absentee ballots will avoid the middle-of-the-night ‘ballot dumps.’ Some Republican lawmakers say being more open about absentee ballot numbers will help Inspire more faith in the state’s electoral process.

Human trafficking is going under the spotlight at the Wisconsin Capitol today. The Speaker’s Task Force On Human Trafficking will hold its first hearings, with an eye towards new laws that could help combat human trafficking. Both the state’s Department of Justice, and the state’s Department of Public Instruction are set to testify. State Rep. Jerry O’Connor says human trafficking is a growing problem in the state, and he wants to see what additional laws are needed to fight it.

Wisconsin’s pro-life groups say prosecutors in Milwaukee and Madison need to do their jobs. Leaders from Wisconsin Right To Life, Wisconsin Family Action, and Pro-Life Wisconsin yesterday told reporters that abortion in the state remains illegal, despite Planned Parenthood’s resumption last week. Dan Miller with Pro-Life Wisconsin says while there is a challenge to Wisconsin’s abortion law, a judge has not ruled that it is unenforceable. He says prosecutors in Milwaukee in Madison have made a political decision to not

Lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capital are considering a plan that would require bail for anyone who skipped out on their bail in the past. A Senate panel will hold a hearing today on a plan that would require at least five thousand-dollars cash bail for anyone with a bail jumping conviction on their record. If someone has a bail jumping conviction and a conviction for a violent crime, the law would require at least 10-thousand-dollars cash bail. Right now, judges