The Durand-Arkansaw School Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include a report on preliminary student enrollment, consideration of the 2026-2027 district continuous performance report and reports from district and building administrators. Tonights meeting begins at 6pm in the board room at Durand-Arkansaw High School.
The Pepin County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include discussion of the 2027 Budget timeline and goals, approval of changes to the Rural Functional Classification System in Pepin County, and county board committee reports. Tonights meeting begins at 7pm in the board room at the Pepin County Government Center in Durand.
The Dunn County Board is meeting tonight. Items on the agenda include approval of the hazard mitigation plan, addressing the 2027-2028 funding gap and establishing a plan to maintain compliance with county fund balance policy. Tonights meeting begins at 7pm at the Dunn County Government Center in Menomonie.
A Menomonie woman is facing arson charges after four fires at properties she lived at. Authorities are accusing Marquetta Rodey with setting fires to her home in September 2023, then again in July of 2024 along with an apartment building she was living at in October 2025. Authorities say that Rodey collected over $500,000 in insurance money. She is charged with four counts of arson with the intent to defraud. She will be in court on October 20.
Authorities are investigating a fatal crash that happened Tuesday morning on Highway 53. The accident happened around 11 a.m., just south of Clairemont Avenue. Police say a 65-year-old Eau Claire woman veered off the side of the roadway and into the concrete median -- suffering fatal injuries. Her name has not yet been released.
Wabasha County Highway 9 from Hwy 33 south to 670th street is closed for the rest of the month as crews replace a bridge. Crews will replace the bridge with large culverts. That project is expected to be completed by mid October.
Authorities are releasing the identity of a man who was killed in a crash in Red Wing. The collision happened Monday on Highway 61 near Mile Post 89. Minnesota State Patrol officials say 71-year-old Michael Murphy's vehicle crossed the median, struck a guardrail and rolled several times. Authorities say the roads were wet at the time of the crash.
Governor Tony Evers visited multiple University of Wisconsin campuses on Tuesday as part of his annual back-to-school tour. Evers bragged on higher education in the state during a stop at UW-La Crosse, saying that 'whether it's a technical college system, or a UW System, higher education in Wisconsin is clearly better than in almost any other state in the nation.' The governor yesterday also visited the UW-Oshkosh and UW-Stout campuses.
Charges are being filed against a former nurse at the Tomah Veterans Affairs Memorial Center. Fifty-three-year-old Beth Holtz is accused of intentionally depriving a dying hospice patient of oxygen. The incident happened in August of last year, with Holtz reportedly telling a fellow staffer that she hoped the patient would die before the end of her shift because reporting his passing would be easier than writing up a fall that he had experienced earlier. Holtz was taken into custody yesterday on a charge of intentionally abusing a patient causing great bodily harm.
Wisconsin’s regular waterfowl hunting seasons begin this month. The goose season opens Wednesday in the Northern and Southern Zones, while duck season opens later this month in the North. Hunters are reminded to have required licenses, stamps, and federal HIP registration before heading afield. The Department of Natural Resources also recommends precautions when handling harvested birds because avian influenza remains present in wild waterfowl. Season dates and regulations are available through the DNR's website.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court will hear arguments this week on the state's congressional maps. Two lawsuits claim the state's congressional districts are illegally gerrymandered. Liberal legal groups argue the maps are unfairly drawn and have helped Republicans maintain a 6-2 advantage in Wisconsin's U.S. House delegation. One lawsuit claims the maps amount to partisan gerrymandering, while another argues they're designed to protect incumbents and reduce electoral competition. Republican lawmakers and congressional representatives oppose the challenges and say lower court panels were right to dismiss them. For now, the Supreme Court is only deciding whether those dismissals should stand.
Construction is set to begin this month on a 700-million-dollar soybean processing plant in Evansville. CHS Incorporated says the facility on 300 acres of farmland will be capable of processing 80 million bushels of soybeans a year into livestock feed and oil for products like biodiesel. Project leaders had briefly paused development in 2024 to wait for clearer federal policies, but recent EPA announcements convinced the company to press forward. The plant marks the most expensive single development project in Evansville's history and is expected to open in the fall of 2028.
The Wisconsin Department of Justice is pushing for tougher anti-robocall rules. Attorney General Josh Kaul says current safeguards aren't doing enough to keep scammers off the nation's phone network. A multi-state coalition wants phone companies to do a better job vetting providers that route calls, increase monitoring, and strengthen caller ID authentication requirements. The DOJ says Americans received nearly 30 billion scam robocalls and texts last year and lost almost two billion dollars to fraud.
More than 163-thousand students are enrolled at UW System schools this fall. The Universities of Wisconsin have been providing enrollment estimates based on Day One counts since fall 2020, and after three years of consecutive growth, overall enrollment levels remain steady. Enrollment decreased approximately 1% across the 13 campuses including significant decreases in international students. Estimates show fall 2026 enrollment at 163,260, a decline of 1,732 overall, with 1,100 of those being international students. Enrollments at the three largest UWs – Madison, Milwaukee and Green Bay, account for more than half of the UW System total.
New BCA data shows reported crime fell sharply across Minnesota in 2025. Murders dropped 23-percent, from 172 in 2024 to 132 last year. Violent crime fell 14-percent in the Twin Cities metro and nine-percent across the rest of the state. Robberies, carjackings and vehicle thefts also saw double-digit declines. The BCA briefly pulled the report after initially omitting the murders of Melissa and Mark Hortman.
The Badger State is a happy state, just not as much as you may think. A recent study by finance website WalletHub ranked the happiest states in America and whether it has an impact on people's daily lives. It used factors such as depression and unemployment rates, income growth, and more. Wisconsin fell into the above average category and ranked 27th overall. The state's highest rating came in the work environment category at number 18. In case you were wondering, Hawaii was ranked as the happiest state in the country.
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