Over the weekend, some Western Wisconsin poultry farmers contracted to grow chickens for Pure Prairie Poultry were selling the chickens for $1 after the company walked away. Pure Prairie Poultry closed its processing plant in Charles City last week and stopped paying for feed for more than a million chickens in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Iowa. Some of the flocks have not been fed for over 9 days and while Minnesota and Iowa have procedures in place to take over the flocks, Wisconsin does not. Wisconsin 3rd District Congressman Derrick Van Orden says he plans on reaching out to Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers on the need for a state safety net. In a statement to WRDN, Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Spokesperson Sam Go said "The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection does not have the statutory authority to assume control of the birds unless it is related to an animal disease response."
As the construction for the new Tarrant Park Pool moves forward, the city is starting to look for staff, including a pool director. Durand Mayor Patrick Milliren says if anyone is interested they should contact the city administrator. The new pool is expected to open in June of 2025.
The Eau Claire Police Department is warning the public of fraud cases. An Anoka County missing persons case led Eau Claire Police officers to solve a fraud case. Officers found the missing person in a Eau Claire hotel who was there to pay who they believed to be an FBI agent 32-thousand-dollars. The fraud suspect entered the hotel as police spoke with hotel staff and was identified as 40-year-old Chetankumar Patel. Police recovered 32-thousand-dollars.
Some kids in Chippewa Falls could be going to different schools in the not-too-distant future. The city's school district says it is looking to redraw the elementary school boundaries. The school board said they are looking at new boundaries for all six elementary schools. The hope is to have a new map for the city's school's by the start of the next school year.
Wisconsin's next AI meeting will hear from both big tech and local news managers. The Study Committee on the Regulation of Artificial Intelligence will meet tomorrow at UW-Stout in Menomonie. Representatives from both Google and Microsoft are scheduled to speak to lawmakers. So are local news managers out of La Crosse. The panel is trying to find ways where Wisconsin can regulate artificial intelligence, and find out where AI's biggest threats are. The hope is to have something for lawmakers to vote on sometime next year.
A new report says Wisconsin is second in the nation in the number of dam failures. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says since 2000, 34 dams in Wisconsin have failed. Only South Carolina has seen more failures. The report says 28 of those 34 dams have failed since 2018. The report says it's a sign of aging, and failing infrastructure. The report also blames climate charge for a string of wet years across the country that left Wisconsin dealing with more rain than in the past.
Wisconsin's attorney general says he's ready to defend the results of the November election. A-G Josh Kaul said on UpFront yesterday that he has the utmost confidence in Wisconsin's electoral system. Kaul said Wisconsin's elections are 'safe and secure,' and have been tested 'over and over again.' Some voters have lingering questions about the 2020 election in Wisconsin. Kaul said those election results, however, stood-up to several legal challenges. He says his office defended the last election and is ready to do the same again this year.
The murder trial of Adam Fravel is expected to get underway in Mankato later this week. Eleven of the 12 jurors needed to start the trial have been picked as of Friday. Five alternates will also have to be selected before the trial begins. Fravel is accused of killing his ex-girlfriend Madeline Kingsbury, who was found dead in Fillmore County last year. Opening arguments in the case are now expected to begin on Thursday.
It's the first sign of the holiday season. The Canadian Pacific Railroad says the Holiday Train will make stops in Western Wisconsin and Souteast Minnesota on December 10th. The Train will be in La Crosse on December 10th at 2:15, Winona at 3:45, Wabasha at 5:45 and Hastings at 8:15. The train will eventually make its way all the way to Canada's west coast a few days before Christmas.
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Foxconn says it's expanding its factory in Mexico. The company this week said it's building the largest GB200 production facility on the planet' at its factory in Guadalajara, Mexico. Foxconn is doing work for Nvidia, which is a new technology company. Foxconn already has a huge presence in Mexico, with over 30-thousand employees and seven campuses. No one is saying just how many new jobs will be connected to the new expansion. Many people in southeast Wisconsin are still sour that Foxconn's promised campus in Pleasant Prairie never panned-out. There's no word just when the factory will be finished in Mexico.
A candidate in the Minnesota Second Congressional District race is pulling out. Third-party candidate Thomas Bowman says he suspended his campaign because he felt that he was tricked by a group called the Patriots Run Project to enter the race. He believes that he was recruited by Democrats for the sole purpose of hurting Republican challenger Joe Teirab in the race against incumbent Congresswoman Angie Craig. The organization reportedly reached out to Bowman on Facebook and provided him 20 thousand dollars worth of in-kind donations by collecting the one thousand signatures he needed to get on the ballot. He now is endorsing Teirab, who is a former assistant federal prosecutor
The United States Department of Agriculture is making a $93 million investment in rural Wisconsin. Rural Development State Director Julie Lassa says $1.3 going to the Rural Energy for America program, which will help 21 solar, wind or geothermal or small scale hydropower projects. The other $91 million is going to solar array projects in La Crosse and Dane counties.
A massive deer poaching ring has been exposed following a months-long investigation. Fond Du Lac County Sheriff's Office and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources believe over 100 deer were illegally killed between Spring 2023 and July 2024. The crimes took place in an area covering the counties of Fond Du Lac, Washington and Dodge. Four suspects have been identified all from Campbellsport, three 16-year-old males and one 36-year-old female.
Madison hospitals are responding to the national saline shortage. The nation's largest IV supplier shut down after Hurricane Helene devastated North Carolina. The shutdown is affecting hospitals in Madison and nationwide. Hospitals in Madison have not seen a major decline. They are carefully tracking saline usage to make sure supplies last.
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