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Little Chute gets a big windmill

June 11, 2012 - 2:20pm

After fifteen years of planning, a Fox Valley town has built its authentic Dutch Windmill. Little Chute hopes it will bring in the tourists.

Envision quaint shops selling wooden shoes, a tulip festival, and a soon to be built visitors’ center which will accompany the 1850's-style Dutch windmill in Little Chute.

This...

Wisconsin Democrats come off a big loss with the party's state convention

June 11, 2012 - 2:17pm

Wisconsin's Democrats are coming off of a bad week after Scott Walker's victory in the recall election. The party is meeting in Appleton this weekend for its annual state convention. Despite the defeat, a spokesman says Democrats are ready to keep up the fight.

Fifteen-hundred Democrats will be in Appleton for...

Wisconsin governor, lawmakers, meet for brats next week

June 8, 2012 - 5:40pm

Governor Walker says he's confident his brat summit next Tuesday will pave the way for bipartisan cooperation in the legislature. The governor predicts he will get Senate Democrats to work with him to pass new mining legislation.

At an appearance at a Wausau area steel manufacturing plant, the Governor said he...

U.S. Senate GOP primary just two months away

June 8, 2012 - 12:24pm

Now that the bruising recall campaign is over, there's another election right around the corner. The four Republicans running for U.S. Senate have just two months to make their cases to voters before primary day.

Normally there'd be a lot more attention focused on a crowded primary race for an open...

Wisconsin cracking down on human trafficking

June 8, 2012 - 12:22pm

Wisconsin's Department of Justice is launching a program to help police and prosecutors track down human traffickers who enslave people in the sex trade or indentured labor.

At the DOJ's annual Public Safety Summit this week about 300 police and prosecutors listened intently to two sex trafficking victims urge them to...

Last piece of weather radio system in place in Wisconsin

June 8, 2012 - 12:21pm

More than 40 years after the first weather radio station went on the air in Wisconsin, the all-hazards NOAA radio system is complete.

The last three weather radio stations went up near Tomah, Shawano, and this week, radio transmission began from Spooner to cover dead spots on the Lac Courte Oreilles...

UW tuition to increase 5.5%

June 8, 2012 - 12:14pm

The UW Board of Regents has voted to increase tuition and fees at all system campuses by 5.5% this fall.

Tuition and fees at UW System campuses will go up 5.5 percent this fall, after a vote Thursday by the UW Board of Regents.

Gov. Walker cut $250 million from the...

Wisconsin recall effect felt across Lake Michigan

June 8, 2012 - 12:12pm

The failed recall attempt against Governor Scott Walker is already having a dampening effect on similar efforts across the country.

The group Michigan Rising decided to end its campaign this week to recall that state’s governor. The group accused Rick Snyder of putting the needs of corporations ahead of the people....

Wisconsin urged to rethink major energy transmission line

June 8, 2012 - 12:10pm

A group of citizens and a state agency will request the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin rethink its decision approving the CapX2020 energy transmission project.

The PSC recently approved the controversial CapX2020 project, which will bring power lines from the Dakotas into the state. The 150 foot lines enter Wisconsin at...

Protected birds halt Eau Claire construction project

June 8, 2012 - 12:09pm

A large-scale construction project in Eau Claire is on hold because of a handful of federally-protected birds.

Local grocery store chain Mega Foods is building its third store on the south side of Eau Claire. Construction has been halted, however, because a group of Bank Swallows have made their home along...

Recall: Wisconsin's most expensive election ever

June 7, 2012 - 5:44pm

The final tally for campaign spending on the recall election isn't complete yet. But campaign finance watchdog Mike McCabe says once it is it will be the most expensive election in the state's history.

McCabe directs the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign. He says the final figure for the governor's race will be...

Group backs off effort to recall Wisconsin Sen. Jauch

June 7, 2012 - 5:41pm

For people who are repelled by recalls, here’s some good news. There probably won’t be a recall of Democratic state Sen. Bob Jauch. A Milwaukee-based group had promised to resume recall efforts of the northern Wisconsin senator as soon as this week’s recall ended, but they’re re-thinking it.

Citizens for Responsible...

Wisconsin DNR proposes wolf hunting, trapping quotas

June 7, 2012 - 5:39pm

The DNR wants to let hunters and trappers kill as many as 230 gray wolves this fall, during the state's first wolf hunting and trapping season, about 20 percent of the estimated adult wolf population.

State lawmakers ordered the wolf season but have left harvest quotas, zones and licensing rules up...

Director's Cut: Striker

June 7, 2012 - 5:16pm

It's "Bowling for Laughs" in this week's edition of Director's Cut Radio. Here's Terry Bell with the makers of "Striker"...

Wisconsin Governor tuned into tuition debate

June 7, 2012 - 5:11pm

Governor Scott Walker is suggesting he'll pay close attention to a UW tuition vote expected this week in Milwaukee.

The governor never finished college himself, but his older son is graduating from high school this week, and plans to attend a university. His younger son will graduate from high school...

Two Wisconsin counties split the recall vote between parties

June 7, 2012 - 5:07pm

In Tuesday’s recall elections, voters could pick candidates from two different parties in the governor and lieutenant governor races. Only two counties split the ticket.

It’s been 42 years since the Wisconsin legislature passed a constitutional amendment mandating that the governor and lieutenant governor be from the same political party....

Wisconsin's Walker, Barrett each won some counties they lost in '10

June 7, 2012 - 5:01pm

In Tuesday’s recall race, Republican Gov. Scott Walker and Democratic challenger Tom Barrett for the most part carried the counties they won in the 2010 match up. But, there are some counties that flipped their votes.

In 2010, voters in Eau Claire, Trempealeau, Crawford and Green Counties leaned towards Barrett. This...

Weston voters approve bus referendum

June 7, 2012 - 4:58pm

Voters in the central Wisconsin village of Weston this week voted in favor of a binding referendum to restore public bus service to the community. Village leaders are now pledging to work with the group that put it on the ballot.

After Gov. Walker's cuts in state aid, Weston village leaders...

Wisconsin's Walker predicts more jobs

June 7, 2012 - 4:55pm

Gov. Scott Walker began the day after his re-call election win with a stop at a factory in Oak Creek. There, he predicted creating what he called an "unbelievable" amount of jobs, now that uncertainty over state policy was settled with his win.

The governor says the recall cast a pall...

Barrett says he might not be through with statewide elections

June 7, 2012 - 4:52pm

Defeated gubernatorial candidate Tom Barrett says another state-wide campaign is not out of the question. Barrett says that he is open to future political opportunities, but he also says he’s glad to be back at his post as Milwaukee's mayor, “I’m never going to say no, I’m never going to...

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Little Chute gets a big windmill

Wisconsin Democrats come off a big loss with the party's state convention

Wisconsin governor, lawmakers, meet for brats next week

U.S. Senate GOP primary just two months away

Wisconsin cracking down on human trafficking

Last piece of weather radio system in place in Wisconsin

UW tuition to increase 5.5%

Wisconsin recall effect felt across Lake Michigan

Wisconsin urged to rethink major energy transmission line

Protected birds halt Eau Claire construction project

Recall: Wisconsin's most expensive election ever

Group backs off effort to recall Wisconsin Sen. Jauch

Wisconsin DNR proposes wolf hunting, trapping quotas

Director's Cut: Striker

Wisconsin Governor tuned into tuition debate

Two Wisconsin counties split the recall vote between parties

Wisconsin's Walker, Barrett each won some counties they lost in '10

Weston voters approve bus referendum

Wisconsin's Walker predicts more jobs

Barrett says he might not be through with statewide elections

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