The Durand-Arkansaw Lady Panthers will get a send off to the WIAA State Girls Basketball Tournament today. This morning at 9:30 there will be a pep rally at Durand-Arkansaw High School that will be live streamed on the school districts Hudl page, then at Noon the team will get an escort out of town by Durand Police and Fire. The escort will depart the school south on Prospect Street, turning right onto 4th Avenue West. Then turning right onto Main Street, to Hwy 10, then to Hwy 85 out of town. On Thursday Night, the Lady Panthers face St. Mary Catholic in the WIAA Division 4 State Semi-Final. WRDN will have coverage from the state tournament on Thursday, first with the Elk Mound vs Xavier Division 3 semi-final at 1:20, remotes from the tournament from 6-8, and then the Durand-Arkansaw vs St. Mary Catholic game coverage at approximately 8pm.
The Mondovi City Council has decided to wait until they talk with the city attorney before agreeing to assist some property owners in an erosion control project on Mirror Lake. In 2020 the city did do a complete dredging of the lake which included erosion control on the public portion of the lake. Mondovi Mayor Brady Weiss says there were some property owners at that time that did not want erosion control on their private property. The costs for a new project would be anywhere from $40,000 to $140,000.
The Durand City Council is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a presentation of the new city website, approval of the Fire Department officers and discussion on the proposed dog park. Tonights meeting begins at 6:30 at Durand city Hall and will be live streamed on the WRDN Website.
Wisconsin small business owner Rebecca Cooke is running again in 2026 for the third congressional district seat. The district covers most of Western and Southwestern Wisconsin. It'll be Cooke's third attempt at taking the seat, which is currently held by Republican Representative Derrick Van Orden. Cooke lost to Van Orden by about two percent of the vote last November.
A Western Wisconsin man is charged with his twelfth OWI. Prosecutors say a woman called 9-1-1 after someone drove into her yard and knocked over her garbage cans. Someone else in the home followed the driver and got a photo of their license plate. The plates were matched to 63-year-old Mitchell Bundy. Officers say he admitted to drinking and was slurring his speech. Bundy has had eleven OWI charges dating back to 1993, including some in South Carolina and Oklahoma.
The number of vehicle accidents have increased by five percent in La Crosse County. Over 3-thousand-400 car accidents were reported last year. The number of fatalities from the accidents were the highest they have been since 2001. Eight people died last year from car accidents. Speeding and distracted driving were two of the major issues that caused some of these accidents last year. The Area Planning Committee is going to work on safety action plan to resolve some of the issues and get the number of accidents down. The plan should be ready to roll out by May of 2026.
A
bill requiring Wisconsin sheriffs to seek proof of citizenship from
persons in custody on felony arrests clears a state Assembly
committee. If a sheriff does not comply, the local government will
lose 15% of its revenue from the state in the following year. On
Tuesday the Assembly Committee on Criminal Justice and Public Safety
voted 8-4 along party lines to recommend passage of the bill. It will
need to pass both the full Assembly and Senate in order to arrive at
the desk of Democratic Governor Tony Evers, who’s already indicated
he’ll veto any such measure.
Wisconsinites scammed of more than $100 mil in '24. The Federal Trade Commission reports that just over $106 million came from more than 30,000 fraud reports last year, with the average loss being $357. Imposter scams were the most reported category of fraud, followed by identify theft, credit bureaus and information furnishers, online shopping and negative reviews, and banks and lenders. Nationally, consumers reported losing more than $12.5 billion to fraud in 2024, a 25% increase from $10 billion in 2023.
UW-Madison is being investigated for anti-Semitic discrimination. A letter sent Monday by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights warned 60 universities, including UW Madison, that failing to fulfill their obligations under the Civil Rights Act could lead to enforcement actions by the agency. The schools are being asked to protect Jewish students on campus and allow them uninterrupted access to campus facilities and educational opportunities. The letter comes after the Trump administration withdrew $400 million in federal grants and contracts from Columbia University for failing to stop antisemitism on their campus.
Governor Tony Evers has unveiled a capital budget he calls a critical step to address aging infrastructure. With a $4.3 billion price tag, the Democratic governor’s proposal includes nearly $1.6 billion for projects on Universities of Wisconsin campuses and more than $493 million for costs of his previously announced plan to overhaul Wisconsin’s Corrections system. Evers on Tuesday warned that putting off the projects could drive up the final costs amid President Donald Trump’s push for tariffs, but the Republican co-chairs of the Legislature’s Joint Finance Committee, Senator Howard Marklein and Representative Mark Born quickly called the plan another example of Evers’ “irresponsible spending.”
A Republican Wisconsin congressman wants to end federal subsidies for EV charging stations. De Pere Republican Tony Weid’s bill targets efforts to expand coverage of the E V charging system in rural areas across the country. Earlier this month, the Trump Administration suspended the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure program as well as state EV charging plans. Weid, the former owner of a chain of gas stations, said he sees a future in electric vehicles but doesn’t believe taxpayer money should subsidize them. The Wisconsin DOT said the state received more than $78 million from the federal program, $63 million of which is now at risk.
Wisconsin
has joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration’s
mass firings of federal workers. Governor Tony Evers and Attorney
General Josh Kaul have signed on to the lawsuit. Evers accused
Republicans of "messing with the lives and livelihoods" of
federal workers. The suit filed Thursday in Maryland argues the Trump
administration unlawfully directed federal agencies to fire thousands
of probationary employees. The complaint states that “large-scale,
indiscriminate firings” have resulted in chaos for states and
communities – and are also against the law. The lawsuit seeks a
court order reinstating probationary employees who have been fired
since January 20.
A new bill being considered in Wisconsin would get rid of Daylight Saving Time. The change to constant standard time would mean earlier sunrises and sunsets all year. A similar bill was also introduced in the US Congress by Republican lawmakers. Arizona and Hawaii are currently the only states that have year-round standard time.
Research teams have found the resting place of an infamous 1890s shipwreck in Lake Superior. The Great Lakes Historical Society over the weekend announced the discovery of the wreck of the Western Reserve, a coal hauling freighter and one of the first all steel ships to sail on the Great Lakes. The ship tragically foundered and sank near Whitefish Bay, killing 27 people including the owner's family who were on board for a cruise through the lakes. Only one person survived. Researchers say a light recovered during the sinking, currently on display at the National Museum of the Great Lakes in Toledo, Ohio matches one spotted by survey teams.
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