Oct. 31, 2025 MADISON, Wis. — Gov. Tony Evers today signed Executive Order #278 declaring a state of emergency and a period of abnormal economic disruption in the state of Wisconsin due to the ongoing federal government...
Archive - October 2025
Wisconsin judge puts on hold ruling that required citizenship check of voters
Oct. 31, 2025 MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin judge on Friday put on hold his order that requires elections officials to verify the citizenship of all 3.6 million registered voters in the battleground state before the...
Wisconsin becomes the 36th state to limit cellphones in schools
Oct. 31, 2025 By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin became the 36th state to limit cellphones and other electronic devices in school Friday, when its Democratic governor signed a bill requiring...
Gov. Evers signs Kennedy-inspired bill allowing candidates to withdraw from the ballot
Oct. 31, 2025 By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin’s Democratic governor on Friday signed a bipartisan bill that will allow candidates to remove their names from the ballot, addressing an issue...
SNAP has provided grocery help for 60-plus years; here’s how it works
By MARGERY BECK and GEOFF MULVIHILL Associated Press The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, is a major piece of the U.S. social safety net used by nearly 42 million, or about 1 in 8 Americans, to help...
Judges order Trump administration to use emergency reserves for SNAP payments during the shutdown
Oct. 31, 2025 By MICHAEL CASEY, GEOFF MULVIHILL and KIMBERLEE KRUESI Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to...
McIntosh Memorial Library to host candy exchange
Oct. 30, 2025 Get ready for a sweet post-Halloween treat at the McIntosh Memorial Library in Viroqua. Between November 3 – November 8, 2025, youth ages 0-17 are invited to bring their leftover Halloween candy to...
Vernon County Sheriff forms task force to combat uptick in school bus passing violations
Oct. 30, 2025 KICKAPOO, Wis. — At a press conference at Kickapoo Schools earlier this week, Vernon County Sheriff Roy Torgerson has announced the immediate formation of a multi-agency task force aimed at combating a...
VIDEO: Jurors convict Illinois deputy of killing Sonya Massey but can’t agree on first-degree murder charge
Oct. 30, 2025 By JOHN O’CONNOR Associated Press PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — A jury on Wednesday convicted an Illinois sheriff’s deputy of second-degree murder, a lesser charge, in the shooting death of Sonya Massey, a...
Trump-Xi trade truce rolls back tariffs but leaves big issues unresolved
BUSAN, South Korea (AP) — Three-digit tariffs are off the table, but import duties on each other are higher than in January. Rare earth materials will flow more smoothly, but China has put in place an export permitting...
