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Milwaukee County is offering Narcan and fentanyl test strips in a vending machine.  The county’s health manager, Dr. Ben Weston, says the idea is to try and help cut down on the number of accidental overdoses.  Weston calls them “harm reduction machines.”  Milwaukee County saw nearly 500 people die from drug overdoses last year, and saw another five-thousand people OD but survive.  The new machine is at the Coggs Human Services Center downtown.  Weston hopes to eventually have a machine

Police are releasing new information about a baby that was found dead in a field in southern Wisconsin earlier this month.  They say the the unidentified boy was found inside a plastic bag in a cardboard box in Whitewater on March 4th.  They now say he had been there for less than two days before being found.  No arrests have been made in the case.  Anyone with information on the boy is asked to call police.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is investigating fake text messages sent to FoodShare members.  The department says it’s getting complaints about FoodShare members getting texts telling them to call a phone number and confirm their pin to avoid getting locked out of their accounts.  The department says it’s immediately replacing all QUEST cards compromised by the scam, and says not to share personal information over the phone.

PHOTO: Sergio Figueredo, 29, a student in the English Language Learners courses at Chippewa Valley Technical College, jumped at the chance to learn CPR through the College because he wants to be able to help in an emergency.  Sergio Figueredo watched intently as the CPR instructor showed him and his 15 classmates how to place the heel of their palms on the chests of manikins to help pump blood to and from the heart during an emergency.  “It came together pretty quickly. And by the time

Don’t expect the new state budget to look much different than the current state budget. The Republicans who will write Wisconsin’s next spending plan were on Capital City yesterday. State Senator Howard Marklein and State Rep. Mark Born said they expect to follow the same path as they did two years ago, and write their own state budget. Both said there’s very little from Governor Evers’ plan that will make the final cut. Madison’s State Senator, Melissa Agard was also on

Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to shed more light on the state’s Parole Commission decisions. A Senate panel will meet tomorrow to take-up a plan that would force transparency on the Parole Commission. Currently, the commission is exempt from the state’s open meetings law. The new proposal would require the Commission to not only give the public notice of when it is meeting, but also to post any parole decisions on the state’s Department of Corrections website. The legislation comes after a

A Madison middle schooler is looking to spell his way to a championship. Aiden Wijeyakulasuriya won the Badger State Spelling Bee over the weekend. He lasted 22 rounds and nailed the spelling of words like ‘narcohypnia’ and ‘winceyette.’ Aiden is a seventh grader at Blessed Sacrament in Madison.

With March being National Nutrition Month and over 40% of U.S. adults considered obese, the personal-finance website WalletHub today released its report on 2023’s Most Overweight and Obese Cities in the U.S., as well as expert commentary. In order to call attention to the communities where weight-related problems are most prevalent, WalletHub compared 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 19 key metrics. Our data set ranges from the share of physically inactive adults to projected obesity rates by

An update from the Eau Claire Sheriff’s Department confirms the death of an inmate. On Sunday, March 12th, a 29-year-old female was found unresponsive in the Eau Claire County  Jail. The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office has requested another area Sheriff’s Office and the Eau Claire County Medical Examiner conduct an independent investigation into this death.  No name is being revealed at this time pending the ongoing investigation.

There are howls surrounding Wisconsin wolves. Wisconsin’s Department of Natural Resources wants to get away from a specific number of wolves in the state, but some lawmakers aren’t ready to follow.  A handful are pushing a plan at the Capitol that would set a wolf population number into state law.  State Senator Rob Stafsholt says lawmakers don’t have a specific number in mind, but they do want to have a number.  He says it was a shock to hunters and