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With a deadline looming to make a decision about frack sand mining in Houston County, tensions are running high on both sides of the debate but one county commissioner said it may not be a fair fight.

U-W La Crosse Emeritus Professor of History Greg Wegner sat down with Lisa Klein on News 8 at Five.

Wisconsin is facing a $2 billion dollar budget shortfall and cuts to higher education funding could offset some of the deficit   

Former Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre will appear in a Super Bowl ad for Wix.com.

A Republican state senator says he does not believe the state can force failing public schools to be converted into independent charter schools.

Students and staff at Northside Elementary wore pink on Tuesday to support Northside Elementary Principal Laura Huber who began treatment for breast cancer.

Authorities say slick roads were a factor in a fatal crash in Racine County.

One of the University of Wisconsin System's toughest critics in the Legislature is blasting Gov. Scott Walker's proposal give the system more autonomy.

A Columbia County judge has postponed a homicide trial after questions were raised about the analysis of some evidence by the Wisconsin Crime Lab.

The Onalaska Police Department is now accepting applications for its Citizen Police Academy (CPA).

The Holmen School District is considering asking residents to fund new technology, school building maintenance and transportation upgrades.

Eau Claire police arrested a 22-year-old man for attempted first degree reckless homicide who admitted stabbing a man on the 800 block of Water Street on Sunday.

The owner of three Pahrump, Nevada casinos west of Las Vegas and 48 taverns across the state says it plans to merge with a Minnesota-based casino company.

A 48-year-old Illinois woman is considered a hero by many after preventing a serious tour bus accident in Kenosha County after the driver suffered a medical emergency.

A man being treated in a Milwaukee hospital emergency room was burned when he started a small fire.

Wildlife experts say wolves have killed or seriously injured six dogs in Wisconsin this month.

The accident left his 14-year-old daughter paralyzed and his 9-year-old son's leg broken.

A 33-year-old man has been treated at a hospital after being rescued from a northeast Iowa grain bin where he'd been trapped for nearly 20 hours.

Two police officers who were shot by a gunman inside a suburban Minneapolis city building are expected to recover.

Holmen residents will be seeing two new referendums on their ballot come April.