By Estefania Pinto Ruiz, KWQC A new survey finds that Latino voters who live near the Mississippi River value the river and areworried about pollution. The poll by the Hispanic Access Foundation, an advocacy group...
Archive - August 2024
Divided legislative committee launches audits of DPI and DNR
by Baylor Spears, Wisconsin ExaminerAugust 30, 2024 The Wisconsin Legislature’s Joint Audit Committee ordered two audits on Thursday — one on how the state Department of Public Instruction’s analyses school...
Harris and Trump offer starkly different visions on climate change and energy
Aug 31, 2024 By MATTHEW DALY – Associated Press Eds: UPDATES: Updates to add comment from Harris campaign on record energy production; adds more photos WASHINGTON (AP) — As the Earth sizzled through a summer with...
Trump team will seek dismissal of federal election subversion case as each side mulls the next steps
Aug 31, 2024 By ERIC TUCKER Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawyers for Donald Trump intend to urge a judge to dismiss the federal election subversion case against the former president after a Supreme Court opinion...
State of the Watershed: Coon Creek Community Watershed Council showcases completed projects, marks third year
by Sydney Widell – Coon Creek Community Watershed Council COON VALLEY, Wis.– The Coon Creek Community Watershed Council (CCCWC) is celebrating its third season this fall, as well as the 91st anniversary of...
Wisconsin reports two deaths from West Nile virus
by Erik Gunn, Wisconsin ExaminerAugust 29, 2024 Two Wisconsin residents have died and a third has been hospitalized with illness from the West Nile virus, the state health department reported Thursday. On average, 18...
Viroqua Elementary School Ribbon Cutting and 1995 time capsule opening
Click here to watch the video of remarks from District Administrator Tom Burkhalter, Board President Angie Lawrence and Elementary Principle Pat Olbert VIROQUA, Wis. – Viroqua Schools held a ribbon cutting ceremony at...
Trump campaigns in La Crosse, calls for universal coverage of IVF treatment with no specifics on how his plan would work
Aug 30, 2024 By JILL COLVIN, JOEY CAPPELLETTI and THOMAS BEAUMONT Associated Press POTTERVILLE, Mich. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump says that, if he wins a second term, he wants to make IVF treatment free for...
Vernon County hosts Bright Horizons Statewide Recovery Exercise at Viroqua City Hall Community Room
VIROQUA, Wis. – Vernon County is hosting the 2024 Bright Horizon Recovery Exercise over the course of four weeks. The scenario for the exercise centered on heavy flooding affecting 31 counties and tribal nations...
DNR sends back CAFO expansion application after accusations of false manure spreading agreements
by Henry Redman, Wisconsin ExaminerAugust 26, 2024 The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has sent back a factory farming operation’s application to expand a Pierce County farm after local residents raised...
