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A Madison man will spend six months in jail after being found guilty of using a car to pull down a statue at the Wisconsin State Capitol.  The statue of Hans Christian Heg was pulled down during protests in June of 2020.  This week Kelsey Nelson was sentenced to six months behind bars for that crime and for looting a jewelry store on State Street the month before.  He pleaded guilty to criminal damage to property and burglary.

The Historic Aloha Lodge Estate in Resort Town of Lake Geneva, Wis. Hits the Market for $35 Million, Is Currently the Most Expensive Listing in the State “The Aloha Lodge offers a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to own a piece of history only an hour and a half from Chicago, on one of the country’s most beautiful lakes…” Designed by noted Chicago architect Howard Van Doren Shaw, the 20,000-square-foot Aloha Lodge on Lake Geneva is one of the Wisconsin resort destination’s most

“We are grateful for the effort to ensure that Navy Seaman Second Class Riley’s remains were returned so he can be laid to rest in Wisconsin.” -Gov. Evers Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Order #202 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on Sat., May 27, 2023, in honor of Navy Seaman Second Class David Joseph Riley, who lost his life in the attack on Pearl Harbor and whose remains

When you walk down the aisle, you probably plan a few Kleenexes along the way-but for this week’s story, we need to reach for the tissues for reasons far beyond the  I DO’s.  Recently a bride  was brought to tears-of-joy during her wedding-but it didn’t have everything to do with the vows alone.  There was a special reunion that surprised the couple.  The bride’s son, who is a member of the United States Army, showed up at her wedding after three

Triple-A says Wisconsin will see more travelers this Memorial Day weekend than in the past three years. Triple-A expects about 800 thousand people to head out in the state over the long holiday weekend. That’d be the most since 830 thousand people hit the roads in Wisconsin over Memorial Day before the coronavirus outbreak back in 2019. Ninety percent of those people are expected to drive. Nationally, Triple-A expects just over 42 million people to make a trip between Friday and Monday. Today is

It was a fight that lead to a blood covered man walking into the Chippewa Falls Police station. Now, Prosecutors filed attempted homicide charges against Abraham Sanchez-Galicia. Chippewa Falls Police say it took a minute to figure out what was going on because of the language barrier, but eventually realized Sanchez-Galicia had been in a fight. That’s when they went to a nearby home and found a man lying in a pool of blood. The man says Sanchez-Galicia attacked him,

UW-Stout and UW-La Crosse are among the few UW campuses that won’t be losing money by the end of next year according to a new report. UW President Jay Rothman yesterday said a new report shows every campus but Madison, Stout, and La Crosse will be in the red next year. Rothman continues to push lawmakers for more money for the UW System. Regents already raised tuition, now Rothman wants an eight-percent increase in the next state budget. Rothman didn’t

Eau Claire’s newest meter maid is automated. The city’s police department says it is using its license plate readers to issue parking tickets. Parking Administrator Todd Bohrer says they are using the readers to make sure everyone pays at city parking garages and parking lots. If you don’t pay within 10 minutes, the parking lot readers ping the police, and they come and can write you a ticket. Bohrer says the idea is to use technology to replace the old

Wisconsin’s PFAS grant program is taking its next step at the Capitol. The plan, which would send money to local governments for PFAS testing and treatment costs, was assigned to a statehouse committee yesterday. Green Bay state Senator Eric Wimberger says communities across the state have been waiting for years for help with their local water supplies. This grant program is in addition to the 125-million-dollar grant program for future PFAS work that is being added to the new state

There’s a push from a Republican lawmaker to increase the amount of money Wisconsin pays for each kid in public school. Waukesha state Rep. Scott Allen yesterday introduced a plan that would add 300 dollars in each year of the new, two-year state budget to Wisconsin’s per-pupil revenue limit. The state currently sets the base revenue limit for public schools at 10 thousand-dollars per-child. Local schools can then spend more local money on kids, but not every school spends the same amount. Allen