western Wisconsin

MADISON - Today's crowd of right-to-work protesters at the State Capitol was about the same as yesterday's -- around two-thousand. They rallied both inside and outside the statehouse. Many chanted, sang, and screamed outside the doors to the Senate chamber as the debate began. ...

DURAND -- A western Wisconsin man has pleaded innocent to assaulting a Hmong deer hunter last November. Kevin Elberg, 43, of Pepin had recently had a false imprisonment charge dropped in Pepin County, and he was arraigned Monday on his one remaining felony count of aggravated battery....

WASHINGTON D.C. - The U.S. Department of Agriculture says it expects cash profits for American farmers to take the biggest single-year drop since 1931-32. The federal agency says the amount of grain produced is greater than demand and the grain carried over from last year’s...

PEPIN - Authorities in western Wisconsin are trying to find the family of a 35-year-old Minnesota man found dead near a set of railroad tracks. Pepin County sheriff's deputies said the body of Steven Joui Glaze of the Saint Paul area has been taken to the Ramsey County medical...

Some technical glitches in the system means Wisconsin public school students will take a scaled-back version of a standardized test next month. School officials say it will be more rigorous than the usual exam, but the planned online testing software wasn’t working properly....

ARCADIA - Wisconsin's largest furniture-maker faces a $1.8 million dollar fine -- plus a major scolding from the Labor Department -- for alleged safety violations. Ashley Furniture of Arcadia said today it "strongly disputes" what it calls "grossly inappropriate and over-zealous...

MADISON - The Wisconsin DNR will take a fresh look at frac-sand mining in the Badger State. The Natural Resources Board unanimously agreed this morning to have staffers update a 2012 report on silica-sand mining, and related environmental and health effects. The Midwest Environmental...

MILWAUKEE - The answer to a new Kenosha casino is no. Governor Scott Walker today rejected the Menominee Indian tribe's request to build its long-proposed off-reservation casino and resort at the former Dairyland Greyhound Park. The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs gave its blessing...

EAU CLAIRE - One person was killed, and two others were injured in a western Wisconsin Interstate crash that involved three semi-trucks. The crash occurred about three this morning on I-94 at Foster in Eau Claire County. Investigators said a westbound semi on Interstate-94 near...

PORT WASHINGTON - Actor Dustin Diamond was ordered today to stand trial on Ozaukee County charges that he stabbed a man in the armpit during a Christmas Night bar fight. The 37-year-old Diamond, who played Screech on "Saved by the Bell" in the 1990's, was bound over at a preliminary...

MONFORT - Investigators with the Grant County Sheriff’s Office report a six-year-old child was killed and two other people wounded in a shooting inside a home in the village of Montfort. The incident happened Friday. Names of the shooting victims weren’t released. Deputies...

MADISON - They won the landmark case, now they want to be paid. Lawyers who successfully argued that Wisconsin’s ban on same-sex marriage should be overturned now want the court to award them $1.2 million in legal costs. A group of same-sex couples had sued the state over its...