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It was a violent weekend in Milwaukee. Police in the city say 19 people were shot between Friday afternoon and late last night, two of them died. The shootings include a quadruple shooting on Friday, a flurry of shootings that saw five people shot in an hour-and-a-half on Saturday, and a double shooting on Sunday. Milwaukee Police say they’ve now seen more than 500 non-fatal shootings in the city so far this year.

We might be a little damp here to start the week, but folks across southern Wisconsin are waking-up to flood worries. The National Weather Service has the entire southern third of the state under a flood watch til later this afternoon. Forecasters say Madison and the surrounding counties could see as much as two inches of rain. The same forecasters say folks to the north could get even more rain. The fear is low-lying areas could end-up underwater, and local streams and

Wisconsin’s Republican race for governor is tight heading into tomorrow’s Election Day. A new poll from Emerson College gives Rebecca Kleefisch a two-point lead over Tim Michels, 36-34, but that’s within the poll’s margin of error. The poll says 14 percent of Republican voters are undecided while eight percent of voters support Tim Ramthun and six percent support Kevin Nicholson, even though he dropped out of the race. Voters will make their choice tomorrow.

The next green energy project in Eau Claire looks to be headed for the roof of one of the city’s fire stations. The city’s capital plan calls for a new solar array for the roof at Fire Station Number Five. There’s already a solar panel at Fire Station Number Eight, out by the city’s airport. City planner Ned Noel said both projects will help Eau Claire meet its goal to be carbon neutral by 2050 and the city’s 100 percent

Who doesn’t want to spend a few beautiful summer days along the Milwaukee lakefront? Republican National Committee boss Ronna McDaniel said that’s why Milwaukee was the obvious choice for the 2024 Republican Convention. The RNC voted to pick Milwaukee on Friday. Afterwards, McDaniel said Milwaukee hit it on every single level.’ We’re still waiting to see just when the RNC will come to town in two years.

There will soon be more places to charge electric cars and trucks in western Wisconsin. Xcel Energy last week said it is looking at a new strategy for electric vehicles. The plan is to add charging stations at gas stations, shopping centers, apartment complexes, and transit hubs. Xcel says they want to charge  cars, trucks, and even city buses. There is no word when the charging stations will be built, or in which communities. Xcel says it is looking at communities

Eau Claire is looking to borrow two million-dollars to get the library expansion over the hump. The city council will vote tomorrow on whether to ask for a two million-dollar loan from the state to bridge the gap between the end of construction on the library, and the time when donations start to roll-in again. About seven million-dollars of the library’s 18 million-dollar price tag is being paid for with private donations, but not all of that money has been

Hunters could be coming to the Rotary Botanical Gardens in Janesville. The city council will consider a plan at tonight’s meeting whether to allow bow hunters to cull some of the deer that are thriving in the gardens. City leaders say there are just too many deer in the park, But there are, as expected, some people in Janesville who don’t want the deer hunted out of the park. The plan is up for its first reading tonight.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalizations are once again up over 500 people. The state’s Hospital Association on Friday said 533 people are in the hospital with the virus, including 79 in the ICU. The 533 number is up over 50 people since last Monday. Wisconsin is seeing the same kind of hospitalization numbers is saw back in the spring. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

As expected, Wisconsin’s U.S. Senators split their votes on the Democrat’s spending package. Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin voted for the 740 billion-dollar package, saying it will raise taxes on corporations and move this country closer toward the Democrats’ clean energy goals. Republican Senator Ron Johnson says the spending package will only make inflation in this country worse, and says it will unleash the IRS on millions of Americans who are not millionaires or billionaires. The plan passed with only Democratic votes.