One person is dead after a single vehicle accident in Pepin Township on Saturday morning. According to the Pepin County Sheriff’s Department, 29yr old Christopher Noel of rural Pepin was traveling southbound on Big Hill road when he failed to negotiate a curve, left the roadway, striking an embankment causing the vehicle to overturn. Noel was ejected from the vehicle. He was pronounced dead at the scene by the Pepin County Coroner.
Two men are dead following an apparent worksite accident in western Wisconsin over the weekend. Emergency responders were called to the scene in Galesville shortly after 11:00 a.m. on Saturday, according to the Trempealeau County Sheriff's Office. Authorities say the men were up in a lift basket trimming trees when it tipped over, sending them plummeting to the ground. It looks like the lift was sitting on slight slope, causing the balance to shift, according to investigators. The sheriff's office has not publicly named the victims.
Three people were injured in a two vehicle accident in Ludington Township on Friday. According to the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Department, a vehicle driving on highway N when the driver failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of Hwy 27 and struck a vehicle traveling on Hwy 27. The driver of the first vehicle was taken to the hospital while the driver and passenger of the second vehicle were also taken to the hospital with the passenger having life threatening injuries.
Two areas in Western Wisconsin are among the fastest growing in the state. That's according to a new population project report from the Wisconsin Department of Administration, which factors in population age, fertility rates, and death rates. Trempealeau County is expected to be the second fastest growing county in Wisconsin through 2050, only behind Dane County. By 2050, Trempealeau is projected to grow by 24-percent. Eau Claire is also expected to continue growing by seven-percent. Meanwhile, the population in Pepin County is expected to decline by 23 percent by 2050, Dunn County is expected to decline by 6%, Buffalo County by 21% and Pierce County is forecast to have a 14% decline in population by 2050.
More money is being invested into future generations of farmers in Chippewa County That's thanks to the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days, a yearly event hosted in a different county each year, which brought in over 145-thousand dollars for the Community Foundation of Chippewa County. A check was given to the board members on Saturday. Over 120-thousand dollars will go towards youth education and agriculture. Rob Mooney, the Wisconsin Farm Technology Days executive chair, says they want to be able to help children stay in the agriculture industry because it is dying and it's an important industry in Wisconsin.
The barricades are back out along roads on the Lac du Flambeau reservation. W A O W TV in Wausau reports tribal leaders are preparing to block off roads on their reservation in under a week if the Town of Lac du Flambeau doesn't pay easement fees on the roads. The tribe is giving the town until Thursday to get current. Those roads cross tribal lands to get to private homes of non-tribal members, and the companies in charge of those properties stopped paying easements decades ago. A spokesperson for the tribe says Thursday will be the end of a 90-day warning of non-payment.
The state of Minnesota plans to begin testing raw milk to see if it contains the bird flu. The testing is part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture effort to determine if the H5N1 virus is present in the nation's milk supply. The state will use samples submitted for other types of testing to help limit the burden on Minnesota dairy farmers. The new testing should start near the beginning of February.
The New Lisbon triple-homicide suspect is being held on five-million-dollars bond. Virgil Thew made his first appearance in Juneau County Court on Friday, a day after he was arrested in connection with the December 30th shooting deaths of his 33-year-old girlfriend Elizabeth Kolba and her 12-year-old and 13-year-old daughters. The 47-year-old Thew was found in Elroy on Thursday, following a more than week-long search. Elroy is located about 12 miles southeast of Thew's mother's home in New Lisbon, where the bodies were found. Thew is facing multiple charges, including three counts each of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse. He's scheduled to be back in court on February 13th.
Classes have resumed at Abundant Life Christian School nearly a month after a shooting that claimed the lives of a student and a teacher. Friday was the first day back since the December 16th shooting. Earlier this week, Abundant Life Principal Doug Butler posted a video message to parents ahead of the return to school. Butler said faculty and staff have been "trained to offer trauma-informed care" to students. He added that faculty and staff have also been trained "to recognize trauma in ourselves." Madison Police Chief Shon Barnes says they're investigating the shooter's online activity, but that they have "no credible information that there are others who intend to commit further violence."
A 22-year-old woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Waukesha has been granted conditional release from a psychiatric hospital. Morgan Geyser was seeking release from the facility for the fourth time. Geyser was just 12 years old when she and Anissa Weier stabbed their 6th grade classmate more than a dozen times to a please a fictional character called Slender Man. Both Geyser and Weier were found not guilty by mental defect and committed to psychiatric hospitals. A Waukesha County judge ruled Thursday that Geyser’s release would not post a significant risk to the public. Weier was granted conditional release in 2021.
Minnesota lawmakers are demanding answers and calling for change in the U.S. Postal Service. This, after residents of Cook County in northeastern Minnesota say they haven't received mail in 2025. Furthermore, it's being reported that when those residents went to their local post office looking for their mail they were turned away. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith are calling on the Postmaster General to take immediate action to rectify the issue.
What's billed as "America's Largest Indoor Waterpark" is getting larger. Kalahari Resorts owner and founder Todd Nelson announced an 85-million-dollar indoor waterpark expansion in the Wisconsin Dells, which he called "the Waterpark Capital of the World" in a news release. The release says construction is already underway for the 75-thousand-square-foot glass-enclosed, open-air waterpark with a retractable roof. The new waterpark is expected to open in Fall 2026, according to the release.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is inviting state residents to come check out America's national bird in the wild. DNR is hosting Bald Eagle Watching Days in Sauk Prairie next Saturday, January 18th. There is a new Wisconsin River overlook in Prairie du Sac that guests can spot the eagles from. Sauk Prairie High School will also be hosting live raptor shows as part of the gathering. Everything is free to attend.
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