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MADISON - Wisconsin media advocates and municipal leaders have brokered a compromise to resolve a fight over redactions in public records.
Police departments have been redacting personal information such as names, addresses and gender from reports. That has caused problems for reporters and crime victims.
MADISON - Police say a California woman was cited after climbing into the giraffe exhibit at a Madison zoo and getting kicked in the face.
A police report says 24-year-old Amanda Hall, of San Luis Obispo, California, climbed over one fence and almost got over the second fence encircling the giraffe enclosure at the Henry Vilas Zoo about 5:30 p.m. Saturday.
MADISON - A southeastern Wisconsin historical site will host a Civil War encampment this month.
Old World Wisconsin plans to transform its 19th-century settler village into a Virginia town caught in the middle of the war during an event dubbed ``Civil War Encounters: Gone for a Soldier'' the weekend of Aug. 23.
MILWAUKEE - The crew of a Southwest Airlines flight declared an emergency en route from Orlando, Florida, to Milwaukee, because of an electrical smell in the back of the plane.
Flight 663, which carried 127 passengers and five crew members, landed as scheduled in Milwaukee without incident about 10:15 a.m. Sunday.
VILLAGE OF SPENCER - The Marathon County Sheriff's Office wants to know how a Spencer police officer got into a two car crash Friday.
The crash happened around 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of South Pacific Ave. and East Clark St. in the Village of Spencer.
RHINELANDER - Despite the gloomy weather people experienced in the Northwoods Saturday, dogs still had a tail-wagging good time during a friendly competition.
Pawz N' Clawz natural pet food store hosted their first Pawzitive Outdoor Games at the Oneida County Airport.
The event was created to celebrate the store's one year anniversary.
KAUKAUNA - A Kaukauna environmental center is allowing bow hunters to harvest deer this fall in an effort to promote new tree growth.
The 1000 Islands Environmental Center will allow licensed bow hunters to harvest deer from its upper woods for three weeks in September and October.
STEVENS POINT - Stevens Point officials will soon found out if they can upgrade a Wisconsin River seawall so they can redraw flood maps.
The upgrade could spare more than 200 families thousands of dollars in flood insurance.
TOMAHAWK - The Pellet Stove Junction in Tomahawk doesn't just sell pellet stoves. It's houses 100 years of Tomahawk's railroad history.
Today, the community celebrated the 100th anniversary of the railroad depot. The store owner wanted to preserve the building's history as much as possible. So throughout the store, there are model trains, railroad signs, and lanterns.
MADISON - Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke is the latest Wisconsin politician to take the ``ice bucket challenge.''
That's where people dowse themselves with freezing water to help raise awareness of Lou Gehrig's disease.
ST. GERMAIN - Frequent trips to the hospital can get expensive. To help with travel costs, one Northwoods family held a fundraiser.
All of the money raised at the Caring For Cameron Benefit will help Cameron Dahm get to the hospital.
MILWAUKEE - Milwaukee police are investigating a double homicide.
According to a department news release, the shooting happened during a party around 2:50 a.m. Saturday near Marquette University.
MADISON - A Madison fire that was so big it could be seen on weather radar damaged more than a dozen nearby homes and melted parts of a fire truck.
Madison fire department spokeswoman Bernadette Galvez says crews arriving to the fire of an apartment building under construction Aug. 8 could feel heat from 100 feet away through the fire engine windshield.
RHINELANDER - About a dozen hard working puppies will be in the Northwoods this weekend.
They're part of Puppy Camp in Rhinelander. The dogs are training to be Leader Dogs for the Blind.
Volunteers focus on socializing the dogs.
LAONA - The Blackwell Job Corps Civilian Conservation Center celebrated 50 years of the program near Laona during an open house Friday.
The center aims to help disadvantaged students who couldn't finish their high school education. They also train students for in-demand jobs. Those include trades like carpentry, labor, welding and others industries. Students like Cruz Biddle found out more about the center while he was at the Wisconsin Challenge Academy in southern Wisconsin.
LAKE TOMAHAWK - The Ice Bucket Challenge makes people pour a bucket of cold water over their heads or donate to ALS within 24 hours.
The Brewers, Aaron Rodgers, and probably even your next door neighbor all took the challenge. It is meant to raise awareness for the cause.
HURLEY - More than 18,000 people live in Michigan but work in Wisconsin, or vice versa.
They're thankful for a tax reciprocity agreement between the two states.
Workers only file income tax returns in their home state, not both states.
VILAS COUNTY - The Vilas County Civil Service Commission works to hire the best people for jobs in the Sheriff's Office and Jail, but the commission is looking to fill an open position itself.
The commission was founded two years ago through an ordinance passed by the county board. Since then, it has helped to restart the sheriff's office's water patrol and created a chief detective position in the office.
RHINELANDER - Some health experts think almost everyone who is sexually active will get HPV at some point in their lives. Human papillomavirus can cause certain types of cancer like cervical cancer, anal cancer, and cancer of the penis.
HPV is a virus that infects the skin and mucous membranes. Health experts say it's the most common sexually transmitted disease.
VILLAGE OF WESTON - Everest Metro Police need help finding the suspect in a bank robbery.
It happened Friday morning before 10 a.m. at Intercity State Bank in the Village of Weston.
Everest Metro Police Department Wally Sparks says they don't know if the suspect left on foot or by car.
NORTHWOODS - If you plan on taking a dip in the lake to cool off from these warmer temperatures, health workers want to remind you of Swimmer's Itch in some Northwoods lakes and ponds.
Swimmers Itch is an itchy or burning rash that may pop up after you swim. It's actually caused by parasites that infect animals living on or near the water.
MADISON - Gov. Scott Walker is partaking in the latest Internet sensation.
The Republican on Thursday posted on his Facebook page a video of himself and his wife Tonette getting a tub of ice water dumped on them.
RHINELANDER - August can be known as the 'dog days' of summer.
One local company is taking that phrase to the next level, with a canine competition.
Pawz N' Clawz natural pet food store will host their first Pawzitive Outdoor Games on Saturday. Dogs will display speed, dock diving and agility. The tail-wagging event was created to celebrate the store's one year anniversary.
PORTAGE - The man accused of attacking a police officer in central Wisconsin now faces an attempted homicide charge.
Prosecutors say 33 year old Brett Lieberman of Manawa attacked a Plover police officer with a knife during a traffic stop.
BAYFIELD COUNTY - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to find whoever shot some federally protected raptors in Bayfield County.
At least one osprey and one barred owl were shot in recent weeks.
EAGLE RIVER - You can create many memories on the water during the summer. One activity that's soared in popularity over the past few years is paddle boarding.
It's fun, relaxing and the perfect way to play on area lakes and rivers. Wildwood Outdoor Adventures has been providing paddle board rentals for seven years. But it took them a while to build their business.
Activists weren't happy about a recent pig-wrestling fundraiser that a Green Bay-area church held, so they're offering the bishop cash if he takes the pigs' place in the muddy pit.
Steve Hindi made the offer Thursday. He's the founder of an animal-protection group called SHARK.
MANITOWOC - Manitowoc police say an officer making a traffic stop found an intoxicated driver behind the wheel _ and she was just 13 years old.
They say five other juveniles, 14 and under, were along for the ride.
PHILLIPS - Police believe William Rambo stabbed his wife to death in Park Falls last August.
On Thursday, Rambo made a plea agreement in Price County Court that could mean long-term prison time.
Prosecutors think Rambo threatened to stab his wife to death in early August 2013.
PHILLIPS - Do you know what felting is?
People in Price County got the chance to master wool felting on Thursday.
They used old materials to create something new in a workshop at Wisconsin Concrete Park in Phillips.
