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A report from a watchdog group shows corporate donations to political campaigns in Wisconsin have soared in the last two years.  The Wisconsin Examiner reports the group — known as the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign — found corporate donors gave three times as much money to Republican Party groups in Wisconsin than they did to Democratic Party groups.  The report says Republican organizations in Wisconsin received more than 633-thousand dollars from corporations, compared with a little more than 188-thousand dollars that Democratic Party groups took in from corporations.   

The University of Wisconsin-Parkside is offering free college courses to high school students in a dual-credit program with the Parkside campus.  Previously, the Parkside campus offered college course at a reduced tuition rate.  The program allows high school students to take college and high school courses for credit at their high school during the regular school day.  Since the start of the program six years ago, 14-hundred students have earned four-thousand college credits and saved more than 850-thousand dollars in future

She had to sell more than 8-thousand boxes of Girl Scout cookies, but Victoria Lenius from Madison has emerged the top seller of Girl Scout cookies in all of Wisconsin.  Lenius just graduated from high school and is headed for college with a one-thousand dollar scholarship from Badgerland Girl Scouts in her bank account.  To help anyone trying to do the math, it would take someone consuming an entire box of Girl Scout cookies each day for 21 years to almost

An angler on a fishing charter near Algoma on Lake Michigan landed what’s believed to be the biggest salmon caught in Wisconsin in nearly 30 years.  The fisherman from Minnesota was on a Kinn’s Sportfishing boat on July 31st when he caught the salmon, which weighed 40-point-4 pounds and was 44 inches long with a 28-and-a-half inch girth.  It’s considered the largest chinook caught in Wisconsin waters since another fisherman landed one that weighed almost 45 pounds in 1994.  The all-time record for Lake

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is asking for your help to find a kitten that bit a young man on Friday, August 5th, 2022, at around 12:00 p.m. The bite happened near McDonald’s located off Fairfax Street in Altoona, WI. The kitten was described to be black with white paws. The kitten was last seen in a parking lot across from the McDonald’s near Fairfax Street. If anyone has information about this cat, they should contact the Eau Claire

The smell of new crayons, sharpening those #2 pencils, and the squeak of new shoes in the hallway can only mean one thing…Back to School is coming again. For this week’s Friday Feel Good we stretch far past those first emotional Kindergarten drop offs and follow a mother and daughter into years of education that lead to celebrating the achievements of many hard years.  There was a proud mom who didn’t just brag to her friends and family about her doctor

August 12th is National Vinyl Record Day.  It’s the perfect time to bust out a record player and listen to the classics.  The day was founded by a California man who said the objective was to get people to “remember that, whatever we go through on a personal or national level, life has its goodness.”  Although Vinyls are typically associated with music from decades past like the Beatles, Elvis, or Johnny Cash, records are still wildly popular today.  Record sales have steadily increased

Dane County’s sheriff will be buying guns this weekend, no questions asked. The sheriff’s office will run its gun buyback from 10 a.m. til 2 p.m. tomorrow at the Alliant Energy Center. Deputies are trading gift cards for guns, the amount on the gift card depends on the type of gun being turned-in. The sheriff’s office says all guns must be unloaded, should be boxed, and must actually work.

The man charged with killing a woman then setting his house in Chippewa Falls on fire is due in court to be formally charged later this month. Prosecutors yesterday said 58-year-old Scott Vaningan’s arraignment is set for August 31st. Police say he stabbed a woman to death, then set fire to his home back on July 27th. Fire investigators said the fire was suspicious from the get-go.

Prosecutors in Chippewa County are not taking a woman to trial for stabbing her boyfriend. The D.A.’s office yesterday said it won’t file charges against Leah Mickelson. Police say she stabbed her boyfriend to death back in May after he spent the night drinking, then came home and beat her. There’s video of the man chasing Mickelson before he’s stabbed. Prosecutors say they are moving-on from the case.