western wisconsin

Wind-chill factors were in the minus-20's this morning in much of northern Wisconsin, as an early December cold snap was starting to settle in. Skies finally cleared up last night, allowing the Arctic air to move in. Phillips had the coldest actual temperature at 6 o'clock with...

GILMAN - Taylor County authorities say a hunter was killed and another injured after being hit by a vehicle on Friday evening. The County Sheriff’s Office says the two men - both from Roscoe, Illinois – were standing near County Line Road, about nine miles west of Gilman, when...

BOYCEVILLE - A hunting accident near Boyceville sends one man to the hospital in critical condition. A spokesman for the Wisconsin Department of Transportation says 52-year-old Brian Kohnke, of Menominee, was involved in a deer drive with 20 hunters… a term used to flush deer...

The death toll has risen to three from traffic crashes that were at least partially blamed on yesterday's snow in southern Wisconsin. The latest reported death was in Lafayette County, where 58-year-old Alfred Rott of Monona was killed. Authorities said he was driving a semi-truck...

ALMA - A western Wisconsin judge with a shirt-tail connection to the latest John Doe Walker investigation signed the recall petition against the governor in 2012. James Duvall of Alma, the chief judge in the state's Seventh Judicial District, was among the defendants listed when...

MENOMINEE, Mich. - A body found in Michigan has been identified as a missing Milwaukee man. Authorities say hunters found the body of 44-year-old Gerod Prince on November 15. He had been missing since September. The body was found near Cedarville Township in Menominee County....

WASHINGTON D.C. - U.S. Senate Democrats, in a historic rule change, strip Republicans of the ability to block judicial and executive branch nominees from the White House. The move comes as a surprise to UW political scientist David Canon, who notes Senators have talked about...

EAU CLAIRE - A reserve judge from Eau Claire has been named the new presiding judge in a John Doe probe reportedly connected to campaign funding for the state's recall elections. Former circuit-and-appellate judge Gregory Peterson confirmed to the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel that...

MILWAUKEE - Authorities in Milwaukee are looking for a stolen car that contained a flash drive of important information. Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett says the flash drive contains personal information on six-thousand city employees and about three-thousand spouses or partners. The...

MADISON - A change in the way Wisconsin's chief justice is picked will get its first vote in the state Senate today. Republicans are supporting a constitutional amendment to require the seven Supreme Court justices to elect a chief every two years, thus ending the 124-year-old practice...

A brief cold snap has Wisconsin homeless shelters bracing for more business. The demand for emergency housing remains relatively high, and the Emergency Shelter in Appleton is trying to get other shelters in the Fox Valley to work together. Jerome Martin says there are a half-dozen...

MADISON - A state appeals court says the two members of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission remain in contempt-of-court. That's because they've been scheduling about 400 re-certification votes for local government and public school unions, although a judge said he struck...

Folks in northwest Wisconsin could blame Tropical storm Sonia if they shovel a lot of snow on Wednesday morning. The National Weather Service says the big storm in the eastern Pacific could help bring heavy moisture that's expected in southern and eastern Minnesota, and far west...