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Most of the oil that leaked into the Flambeau River last November has been cleaned-up. Dairyland Power Cooperative said  in a report to the state’s Department of Natural Resources that crews have cleaned most of the river that was impacted by the leak at the Dairyland Flowage Dam. Crews were able to take roughly  20 55-gallon drums of oil-impacted water out of the river.

Wisconsin’s tax burden is at its lowest level, ever. A new report from the Wisconsin Policy Forum says last year’s billion-dollar state income tax cut, and Wisconsin’s rules against increasing property taxes means the amount of money each taxpayer is paying in taxes is smaller than ever before. Taxpayers are still paying a lot, over 35 billion-dollars in state and local taxes last year alone. The report says Personal income taxes are still the biggest share, followed by sales taxes, then corporate income

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate says they are ‘close’ to supporting a plan for medical marijuana. Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that Republicans in the Senate could support a medical marijuana program as long as there are strong regulations. He says he doesn’t want someone with back pain to be able to get a pot prescription in Wisconsin. The State Senate has been the roadblock for any kind of marijuana legalization in the state in years

The state’s Department of Natural Resources is being called-in to help clean-up butter in Portage. A fire at the Associated Milk Producers facility in Portage on Monday melted 20 gallons of butter . That butter washed into the sewers, and is now causing problems at Portage’s wastewater treatment plant. DNR regulators say there’s been a minimal impact from the butter spill on the environment. Firefighters in Portage aren;t sure yet just what caused the fire.

The clock is ticking on I-41 just outside of Milwaukee for the next few days. Wis-DOT says crews will close the freeway at 11 p.m. tonight to replace parts of the railroad bridge near the Zoo Interchange in Wauwatosa. The closure will last til 6 a.m. Sunday. Wis-DOT says both sides of the freeway between Watertown Plank and Burleigh will be closed, and are reminding people to use alternative roads.

City leaders in the Fox Valley are the latest to want Amtrak service in Wisconsin. The mayors in Green Bay, Appleton, Oshkosh, Kaukauna, Menasha, Neenah, and Fond du Lac this week all said they want to see a train connect their cities with Milwaukee. Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich says connecting the New North with Milwaukee would also connect the area with the rest of the country. He says the Fox Valley would benefit from Amtrak service. No one, however, is

Someone in Luck, Wisconsin won 15 million-dollars in the latest Megabucks drawing. The Wisconsin Lottery announced the big winner yesterday. The lucky person has yet to claim their prize Luck, Wisconsin is a tiny village of about 11 hundred people in Polk County, in the northwestern corner of the state. The winning ticket was sold at  Wayne’s Food Plus. The winning numbers were 4-6-12-17-27-28.

JJ Watt says his latest fan mail package had him take a step back. Watt, who played both high school and college football in Wisconsin before heading off to the NFL, says someone sent him a stuffed badger in the mail. It was professionally taxidermied and mounted. Watt shared pictures of it on Twitter. He said ‘I have received a lot of wild fan mail over the years. This package that arrived today is certainly being added to the list.’

Madison is one of the best cities in the U.S. for an active lifestyle.  That’s according to a new study from WalletHub, which ranks Madison eighth compared to the 100 largest cities in the country.  WalletHub uses three dozen key metrics for its rankings, and puts Madison fifth in the sports and outdoors category.  WalletHub says the best city for an active lifestyle is Honolulu, Hawaii.

Due the recent rainy warmer weather, outdoor skating rinks at Boyd, Putnam, and Roosevelt will be closed. Pinehurst Warming Shelter will be open for the sledding, skiing, snowboarding, snowshoeing and gear share. At this time, the Crokicurl and skating rinks will not be useable. The City Parks flooding crew will be working on flooding them. Please be patient as our crews work hard to make all rinks skateable and safe for the Community.