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Madison is getting a top-tier women’s soccer team. The ownership team of Forward Madison FC yesterday said it has landed the rights to a new team in the USL Super League. The league is hoping to launch next year, and Madison must make improvements to Breese Stevens Field in order to get the team. Forward Madison’s Conor Caloia and Vern Stenman said in a statement that it’s always been their goal to bring a professional women’s soccer team to Madison.

There is a person in custody for last Friday’s deadly wreck in Eau Claire. Officers say Kenneth Van Meter was drunk and speeding when he crashed into a car last Friday night. Eau Claire Police say they are recommending homicide by intoxicated use of a vehicle charges in the case. The D.A.’s office has not said just when formal charges could be filed. CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL PRESS RELEASE FROM ECPD.

The search for a man who went under the water in the Sheboygan River is over.  Rescue crews found 25-year-old Lee Lor’s body yesterday.  He went missing in the river on Monday.  The Wisconsin DNR and Sheboygan County Sheriff’s Office used sonar to locate his body, then dive teams recovered it.  The sheriff’s office says Lor dove into the river, but almost immediately started calling for help.  The DNR says most rivers and lakes are still very cold, and suggested people avoid

Prosecutors and defense attorneys in Wisconsin are going to get a raise in the new state budget.  The budget-writing Joint Finance Committee yesterday agreed to spend more money on D.A.’s and defense attorneys.  The starting salary in Wisconsin will now be 75 thousand-dollars a-year.  The pay hike comes after years of complaints from D.A.’s and judges that low pay was squeezing lawyers out of prosecution and defense work.  Dodge County lost all of its prosecutors earlier this year because they all got better paying

Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol are ready to vote on the plan to send more money to local governments, even though the plan may not be finished.  No one has shared the details of the shared revenue plan yet.  Still, there is a vote scheduled for later this afternoon in Madison.  Assembly Republicans want to send as much as 500 million-dollars to local governments across the state, which Governor Evers and Democratic lawmakers support.  But Republicans are demanding spending limits and

If you are speeding in Wisconsin, you could get clocked for your next ticket from the sky. The State Patrol is continuing with its aerial enforcement this week. Troopers were in Rock County yesterday. They will be in Kenosha County today, Eau Claire County tomorrow, and Dane County on Friday. The State Patrol says it’s telling people about the flights in the hope that people will slow down on Wisconsin’s interstates.

Eau Claire’s health department is reminding people that this is the last call for free COVID tests. Starting next month, people will have to pay to get at-home testing kits. The health department took to Facebook yesterday to suggest people order their tests now, just in case. The end of the federal coronavirus emergency has brought an end to most free coronavirus care.

The tuition freeze at the University of Wisconsin has ended, but state lawmakers still want some say over how high the price of a UW degree can go. A Senate panel is set to vote tomorrow on a plan that would tie any future UW tuition increases to the consumer price index. The idea is to stop UW Regents from raising tuition too high or too quickly. The plan comes after lawmakers froze tuition at UW campuses for nearly a decade, and

“I took as many auto shop classes in high school as I could,” Noble Melvin is ready to start your engines. The 17-year-old Neillsville High School senior will graduate with a high school diploma and a technical diploma in motorcycle, marine and outdoor power products from Chippewa Valley Technical College within months of each other, thanks to CVTC’s high school academy offerings.  The College’s high school academies allow students in participating school districts to attend CVTC while also earning high

On May 12th, 2023 at 10:47PM multiple agencies responded to the area of East Clairemont Avenue and Fairfax Street for a crash involving two vehicles. A Dodge Charger was stopped at the traffic lights eastbound on Clairemont Ave at Fairfax St. The Charger was struck from behind by a Ford Escape, which was described by witnesses as traveling at a high rate of speed. The Charger was pushed across the intersection and struck a traffic post. Witnesses advised the Charger