Wisconsin State Journal Local News

October 29, 1927 - May 14, 2025

BARABOO—Kevin John Schell, age 60, of Baraboo, passed away peacefully on Friday, May 16, 2025, at St. Mary’s Hospital with family by his side.

Contreras has gone 9 of 16 over his last five games, but one of his biggest moments came at just the right time on Monday night in Milwaukee.

Tony Mansolino’s first road game as Baltimore’s interim manager comes in the city where his dad worked as a Brewers coach for a couple of seasons in the late 1990s.

Police would not say what the "isolated incident" entailed, whether a weapon was used or what happened to the people involved.

Senior housing has 103 units

NEW YORK — After recovering from an initial jolt, U.S. stocks, bonds and the value of the U.S. dollar drifted through a quiet Monday following the latest reminder that the U.S government may be hurtling toward an unsustainable mountain of…

GREGORY, Jack Harry, 97

NEW YORK — Netflix threw “Sesame Street” a line with a new streaming deal that offers the popular children’s staple a broad reach while keeping it on its longstanding home, PBS, at the same time, the companies announced Monday.

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to strip legal protections from 350,000 Venezuelans, potentially exposing them to deportation.

As it stands today, the budget reconciliation bill moving through the U.S. House of Representatives will have severe and unfair consequences for Wisconsin health care. It creates Medicaid winners and losers, with Wisconsin at the bottom.

One northbound lane — and sometimes two — will be closed between High Ridge Trail and Traceway Drive in Fitchburg starting Monday.

The World’s Largest Brat Fest again will be held on Willow Island at the Alliant Energy Center in Madison over Memorial Day weekend, Friday through Sunday.

Wisconsin native touts USAID's impact

The Badgers finished the weekend with a pair of conference champions as well as a few more medalists. Here are the athletes who stood out in Eugene, Oregon.

The 34-year-old Linden man was pulled over by an Iowa County deputy, who saw numerous empty beer cans inside the vehicle and detected the odor of intoxicants.

WASHINGTON — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. clinched the political support needed to become the nation’s top health official by pledging to work within the decades-old federal system for approval and use of vaccines. Yet his regulators are promising big changes…

Despite rain, snow, heat, foot pain, and biting dogs, Ryan Buske said he's loved his 20 years as a United States Postal Service carrier.

Some of our windiest weather is associated with the highest frequency of mid-latitude cyclone activity.

The crash remains under investigation by the Rock County Sheriff’s Office and the Rock County Medical Examiner’s Department.