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The remembrances are pouring-in for former UW-Madison Chancellor Rebecca Blank after she died from cancer.  She died Friday.  Blank led the Madison campus for 10 years before leaving last year to become the president at Northwestern University.  She never started that job because of her diagnosis.  President Obama is one of the people who remembered Blank over the weekend, she worked in his treasury department before becoming chancellor.  Blank leaves behind a husband and an adult daughter.  She was 67-years-old.

 Milwaukee is looking to become one of the NBA’s All Star cities.  The Journal Sentinel is reporting that the Bucks will submit a bid to host the NBA All Star game either in 2025 or 2026.  The Bucks became a possible host city after opening Fiserv Forum back in 2018.  The NBA just wrapped-up All Star weekend in Salt Lake City this weekend.  Milwaukee hasn’t hosted an All Star Game since 1977.

A Wisconsin family will be competing for 100-thousand dollars tonight on America’s Funniest Home Videos.  Logan and Julia Hertzner of Brodhead were on the show last month and won 20-thousand dollars for the video they submitted showing the artwork of their two-year-old son Braxton, who colored on everything in the house including his baby brother’s head.  Now the Hertzner’s are returning tonight as one of the top three finalists of the season.  America’s Funniest Home Videos starts at 6pm. 

Dozens of bright young students are competing in the Madison All-City Spelling Bee.  About 40 students from the third through the eighth grades took part in the annual spelling bee held Saturday at Madison College.  Winning first place this year was seventh-grader Aiden Wijeyakulasuria of Blessed Sacrament School.  Eagle School seventh grader Jay Jadhav came in second, and in third place was Molly Abel, a seventh grader from Our Lady Queen of Peace School.  All three winners will advance to

Miss America is returning to her Wisconsin roots.  Twenty-year-old Grace Stanke was in Madison on Saturday for a gala at the UW-Madison campus, where she met with Governor Tony Evers and was presented with a certificate of recognition for her time as Miss Wisconsin.  She was crowned Miss America last December.  WKOW says the Wausau native plans on returning to Wisconsin to study nuclear energy at UW-Madison.

The Chippewa Valley Habitat for Humanity is searching for families in need of safe and affordable housing for new twin homes being built in the city of Menomonie. This will be a twin home with two units, allowing us to help two families build their place to call home. Habitat offers a hand up, not a handout: Families who partner with Habitat are able to take out an affordable mortgage with no down payment with the help of our program.

Reports of erratic driving lead to an OWI arrest. Jason V Desecki, 41 years of age, from Hayward has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol DeForest Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 4th offense. On Saturday afternoon, February 18th, the Wisconsin State Patrol received multiple complaints of a vehicle that was unable to maintain its lane. Troopers located the vehicle and conducted a traffic stop. Upon making contact with the driver, Troopers observed multiple signs of

Hello. We are glad you are here and we welcome you to your weekend. Sometimes the week can feel stressful, long, or exhausting. For that reason we like to slow things down a bit on Saturday mornings with our “scroll down memory lane.” It’s a simple look back at the events that have happened on this day in history before we head out into a new day. So grab your favorite sippin’ drink, and let’s scroll! On this day: In

The Department of Natural Resources has awarded more than six-point-five million dollars to benefit nonprofits, lake associations, and local governments across Wisconsin.  The DNR said on Friday the money will go toward a variety of projects and that many local and regional partnerships are working to improve water quality, habitat restoration, runoff and pollution reduction, and aquatic invasive species control.  The DNR’s Surface Water Grant program received close to 450 applications for grants.

Above photo: Senator Baldwin assembles donation boxes with staff and volunteers at St. Croix Valley Food Bank in Hudson U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) visited Hudson and Eau Claire to highlight federal funds she delivered for the St. Croix Valley Food Bank to help provide nutritious food to the communities they serve and the City of Eau Claire to remediate PFAS in their drinking water. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Senator Baldwin secured the funding as part of