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A new study says Madison is a top 20 place to raise a family.  WalletHub puts Madison at 17th compared to the 182 largest U.S. cities.  Out of 45 categories Madison’s best is affordability, ranking third.  Milwaukee also makes the rankings but down the list at 149th.  WalletHub says the best place to raise a family is Fremont, California.

When Carter Migala was in sixth grade, he began drinking alcohol. In seventh grade, he started smoking marijuana. He was getting into fights and barely passing his classes in Stanley. “I was kind of a jerk as a kid,” said the 18-year-old. “I was making a lot of horrible decisions. I was going to school drunk or high.” “Now I’m as motivated as I’ve ever been.” – Migala He moved to Chippewa Falls for high school, and that’s when the

 Runners can how register for the 24th annual Water Street Mile, sponsored by the L.E. Phillips Senior Center. The one-mile race will begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, July 15, at the corner of 1st and Water streets.  The finish line is at Menomonie Street Dental. Registration cost is $25 in advance and $30 day of the race.  All proceeds benefit senior center programming. More information and registration is available WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

“Being physically active on a regular basis will help tremendously to keep your joints and muscle tissue healthy and managing your weight can reduce extra stress put on joints…” Nearly a quarter of all adults in the United States experience aches and pains associated with arthritis, often with debilitating effects. The joint disease can cause stiffness, swelling and pain in areas of the body like the knees, wrists, ankles and knuckles. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

A deadly crash in Barron County also leaves many with injuries. Below is the press release from Sheriff Fitzgerald: On Monday, May 29, 2023 at 5:52pm the Barron County 911 Center received a call of a 2 vehicle crash on Hwy 25 at County Road A, north of Ridgeland. Deputies from the Barron County Sheriffs along with 2 Marshfield Medical Center Ambulances, a Mayo Ambulance, Cumberland Ambulance, Chetek Ambulance, Dallas Ambulance, Colfax Ambulance, Clear Lake Ambulance, Boyceville Ambulance, Dallas Fire

 Milwaukee’s violent Memorial Day weekend continued yesterday. Police in the city say five people were shot on Memorial Day, including two 16-year-olds wounded in separate shootings. The five shootings yesterday come after 13 people were wounded and three were killed in 10 separate shootings Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. Milwaukee Police have not made arrests in most of the cases.

Authorities are yet sure what caused the train derailment at Devil’s Lake. The train jumped the tracks near the park’s parking lot on Sunday. No one was hurt, and nothing in the derailed cars was hazardous. One of the problems is that authorities don’t know who owns the derailed cars. Both the Wisconsin DNR and the Sauk County Sheriff’s Office are handling the investigation.

It is not a buyer’s market in western Wisconsin. The latest report from the Wisconsin Realtors shows home sales in the western part of the state are down 38-percent from this point last year. Sales are down nearly 40 percent in Eau Claire County, and down over 55-percent in Chippewa County. The Realtors blame a lack of homes for sale, high prices, and high interest rates for the drop in sales.

One of Wisconsin’s largest dairy groups says the Waters of the United States ruling is a win for all farmers. The Venture Dairy Cooperative says the ruling puts a check on ‘unelected bureaucrats in Washington’ who ‘have run amok.’ The unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court struck down an Obama-era regulation that gave the EPA broad power over any place that could hold water, including wetlands and some farm fields that regularly flooded. Farm groups complained for years that those

Hunters in Wisconsin have today and tomorrow to apply for an elk hunting permit. The Department of Natural Resources says the application period closes at the end of the day tomorrow. Elk hunting season is scheduled for October, then again in December. Only four people will be given an elk hunting permit, four others will go to the Ojibwa Tribes. The drawing for those lucky four licenses will be held in early June according to the DNR.