The WRDN Listening area is under an Excessive Heat Warning for the next couple of days. The National Weather Service has issued a warning that runs from 11 a.m. this morning to 10 p.m. tomorrow night. There's a Heat Advisory that then kicks-in til 7 p.m. Thursday. Forecasters say the Chippewa Valley will see highs in the upper-90s, but the heat and humidity will make it feel closer to 110 tomorrow. The Weather Service says people should stay inside if they can.
A motorcyclist is dead following a Saturday morning crash in western Wisconsin. The Trempealeau County Sheriff’s Office says a vehicle driven by 18yr old Nadia Nguyen of Holmen reportedly failed to stop at a stop sign and collided with a group of motorcycles at the intersection of Hwy 93 and Hwy E in the Town of Hale. 55yr old Daniel Sonsalla of Arcadia was ejected from the motorcycle and died at the scene, while the other two suffered non-life-threatening injuries and were treated and released at the scene of the incident. Nguyen was not injured. The Sheriff's office is processing all evidence including cell phone data, vehicle data, and vehicle inspections.
The Mondovi City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion and action on allowing open containers during the Oktoberfest Celebration along with the closing of parts of S. Franklin and West Hudson Streets for Oktoberfest, discussion of the fire agreement between the city and area townships, and reports from the mayor and department heads. Tonight's meeting begins at 5:30 at the Marten Center in Mondovi.
School board members in Altoona are going to continue to listen to parents, for now. The city's school board last night dropped plans to limit public comments at school board meetings. The decision came after dozens of parents and teachers turned out to shout-down the idea. Altoona's proposed policy stated that Wisconsin law doesn't require public comments at school board meetings. The parents accused the school district of not wanting to hear their complaints.
Someone in Dane County is the first person in Wisconsin to get West Nile this year. The state's Department of Health Services on Friday said an individual in Dane County is the first confirmed case for 2023. No one is saying where the person lives, or how they came down with West Nile. In addition to the Dane County case, DHS says horses in Dunn and Clark counties and mosquito pools in Milwaukee and Lafayette counties have also tested positive for the virus.
Three people were arrested in Menomonie over the weekend after a rash of vehicle thefts. According to Menomonie Police , Saturday afternoon officers responded to a motor vehicle accident at Wilson and 13th Ave South and found one of the vehicles involved had been stolen. The department received reports of 4 other vehicles stolen later Saturday, and all four were recovered and with assistance from the Dunn County Sheriff's Department, 18yr old Richard Baier, 18yr old Cobain Nelson and 19yr old Warren Sallee were all arrested in connection with the thefts.
Officer Emily Breidenbach's former K9 partner has a new job with a new police force. The police department in Wautoma yesterday said it has adopted K9 Officer Grizz. Breidenbach was gunned down on the job back in April while on a traffic stop in Barron County. She and another officer were shot and killed by a wanted suspect. Grizz will partner with Wautoma's school resource officer and will serve as a therapy dog.
A Rochester resident is out thousands of dollars after falling victim to a scam. Olmsted County Sheriff's Office, somebody posing as an associate from Think Bank contacted a 66-year-old woman, and used emails or text messages to acquire passwords and financial information. The scammer allegedly asked for access to the woman's personal device and made away with 16-thousand dollars of her money in Bitcoin before ceasing communication. The sheriff's office says it's very difficult to trace money once it's transferred to Bitcoin.
Wisconsin and Minnesota are pursuing federal funding to replace a key piece of infrastructure. The Blatnik Bridge carries more than 33,000 vehicles daily between Duluth and Superior. The 60-year-old span has significant structural deterioration and load restrictions, with anticipated closure in 2030. It’s jointly owned and managed by the Wisconsin and Minnesota Departments of Transportation. Governors Tony Evers and Tim Walz have announced the agencies have requested federal funding from more than $1 billion available through a grant that’s part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Each of the two states have committed 400 million dollars to the project.
A new report shows Wisconsin is seeing historically high teacher turnover. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says nearly 16 percent of Wisconsin teachers left their jobs last school year, the highest percentage in 13 years. The average percentage of teacher turnover from 2009 to 2023 was eleven-and-a-half percent. The Wisconsin Policy Forum is recommending creating more incentives to keep teachers in classrooms. Area students are gearing up for the first day of school over the next few weeks.
Hundreds lose their jobs after a trucking company with statewide locations issued layoffs. The job cuts by Yellow Corporation were reported on the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development website Tuesday. The Tennessee-based company, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday, stated that the cuts began toward the end of July. In total, Yellow eliminated 261 jobs across Wisconsin, with the greatest job losses happening at the company’s Neenah and Oak Creek facilities, where 80-plus jobs were cut; and Tomah, where 46 people are now unemployed.
Charges are pending for a 16-year-old accused of running down an 18-year-old girl at an underage drinking party in Sawyer County. It happened Saturday morning near the Town of Sand Lake. The Sawyer County Sheriff's Office says the 16-year-old suspect had been at the drinking party, and ran the 18-year-old over about 7 a.m. Deputies say the teen then fled and was arrested later in Washburn County.
Wisconsin lawmakers are looking to clarify the rules about having an open beer on an ATV. Lawmakers will hold a hearing today on a plan to make it clear you cannot have an open beer bottle or beer can while riding an ATV on a public trail or a public road. It is already illegal to ride an ATV in Wisconsin while drunk.
While the Republican candidates for president will be on the debate stage, folks at home in Wisconsin will see some Democratic ads. The Biden-Harris campaign on Friday announced a 25-million-dollar ad buy. The new blitz of pro-Biden commercials will run for 16 weeks. That means the commercials will run through the start of the NFL season and until the World Series. There will also be targeted ads that run on the internet. The president has been running ads in Wisconsin since last year.
Former President Donald Trump announced on his Truth Social yesterday that he will not take part in the Republican presidential debate in Milwaukee on Wednesday. Trump said that the public already knows who he is, and how successful he was as president. The New York Times reported on Friday that Trump was looking to sit down for an interview with Tucker Carlson instead. The former president's decision clears the way for other candidates to try and cut into his lead when they appear on Wednesday.
A new exhibit at the Minnesota Zoo is giving visitors a shock, but not in the way you might expect. The Treetop Trail opened to visitors late last month, which is an elevated trail that follows an old monorail track that closed long ago. However, zoo patrons say they're experiencing static shocks when they touch the handrails along the path. While there were concerns the shocks had something to do with the old monorail track, the zoo says the issue is due to the material the trail was constructed with. Zoo employees are applying anti-static solutions on the trail deck to combat the problem.
A church congregation in the town of Marshall was reunited with a piece of its history after nearly a century. The descendants of a one-time pastor at the Marshall Methodist Church last year found a so-called 'friendship quilt' with over 900 names of people from the town and its surrounding areas. The Steen family presented the embroidered piece to the congregation on Saturday, 94 years to the day after it was presented to the former Reverend Roy Steen. The quilt will spend a week on display at the Marshall Community Library before it heads to the Marshall Area Historical Society for preservation.
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