by Bob Hague | Aug 11, 2020
More than 200 thousand households in Wisconsin are getting more help with their groceries under Governor Evers’ latest coronavirus order. According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, the July order which placed a statewide mask order in place, also...
by Bob Hague | Aug 3, 2021
University of Wisconsin System leaders will have to run future COVID-19 rules past state lawmakers. On a 6-4 party line vote, the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules declared Tuesday that the UW System must issue an emergency order to enact pandemic protocols like...
by Raymond Neupert | Jan 28, 2021
President Biden has come out of the gate on his presidency with a flurry of executive orders to combat COVID-19. Congressman Mark Pocan says the Biden Administration has had to ramp up the efforts on the coronavirus because of a lack of action under Donald Trump....
by Bob Hague | Jan 15, 2021
The state Department of Health Services plans to launch mobile COVID-19 vaccination teams, starting next week. The Mobile Vaccination Program is to roll out on Tuesday, with nine teams, and will expand in later phases of vaccine deployment. The goal is to accelerate...
by Bob Hague | Oct 27, 2020
Tuesday was another record high day of COVID-19 infections and deaths in Wisconsin. The Department of Health Services reported that 5,262 people tested positive for COVID-19 over the past 24 hours and that 64 people died from the disease. That’s once again a...
by Bob Hague | Oct 14, 2020
The state of Wisconsin recorded 28 more deaths related to COVID-19 over the previous 24 hours on Wednesday, and 153 more people were hospitalized, according to latest numbers from the Department of Health Services. DHS said just over 83 percent of the state’s...
by Bob Hague | Oct 6, 2020
The state once again reported fewer than 2,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 on Monday. There were four deaths, and 56 more people were admitted to hospitals, according to new numbers from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. Hospitals currently are using 81...
by Bob Hague | Oct 5, 2020
U.S. Senator Ron Johnson has given several interviews on conservative talk radio since announcing over the weekend that he has tested positive for coronavirus. Johnson told WISN’s Jay Weber on Monday morning that he’ll continue to quarantine after his...
by Bob Hague | Sep 29, 2020
As COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations and deaths continue to mount in Wisconsin, Governor Tony Evers is again urging everyone to wear a mask when out and about. “But we also need need folks to understand that wearing a mask is not a substitute for social...
by Bob Hague | Sep 10, 2020
Governor Tony Evers is defending his administration’s response to rioting and looting in Kenosha following the police shooting of Jacob Blake. Evers participated in a teleconference interview with the Milwaukee Press Club via WisconsinEye on Wednesday. “We...
by Bob Hague | Aug 11, 2020
Masks are encouraged at the polls in Wisconsin for Tuesday’s partisan, but not required. And according to Wisconsin Elections Commission spokesman Reid Magney says you won’t be asked to put one on “Absolutely not. Basically, the law says that only...
by Bob Hague | Jul 14, 2020
Governor Tony Evers believes K-12 schools in Wisconsin can open safely — if state residents do what they can to stay clear of COVID-19. “Whether you have your own children or not, I’m really encouraging you to take it easy. Be as safe as possible,...
by Bob Hague | Jul 1, 2020
Milwaukee moved forward with reopening plans on Wednesday, while Madison dialed back. With COVID-19 cases increasing, Madison and Dane County restricting some businesses. Restrictions on public gatherings, restaurants and – a big driver of new cases among...
by Bob Hague | Jun 10, 2020
The head of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is urging Wisconsin residents to continue to practice social distancing, hand washing and wearing mask, in order to protect the state’s businesses from a surge in new coronavirus cases. “I have seen...
by Bob Hague | May 11, 2020
As the state relaxes coronavirus restrictions, Governor Tony Evers is allowing some Wisconsin retailers to reopen to five customers at a time. But don’t be grabbing your “Kohl’s cash” just yet. “I don’t speak for Kohl’s...
by Bob Hague | Apr 8, 2020
In-person voting in Wisconsin’s two largest cities for the spring election on Tuesday eclipsed turnout figures from the April 2019 election. The Madison municipal clerk’s office tweeted total turnout stood at 87,552, just over 50 percent of registered...
by Bob Hague | Apr 3, 2020
Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key member of the White House COVID-19 task force, is the latest public figure to be honored with a bobblehead by the National Bobblehead Hall of Fame and Museum in...
by Raymond Neupert | May 31, 2018
A very determined burglar has struck again, breaking through the outer wall of a Best Buy to steal merchandise. This time it happened in Greenfield. Sergeant Eric Lindstrom says they do have video footage of a man dressed in dark clothing wearing mask who made it into...
by Andrew Beckett | May 4, 2017
A student wearing a Star Wars costume prompted a morning an evacuation at Ashwaubenon High School and a lockdown at other nearby buildings. Ashwaubenon Public Safety Captain Jody Crocker said a passer-by saw and reported a student entering the school Thursday morning...
by Bob Hague | Jul 24, 2015
A bill introduced in the Wisconsin legislature would permit more health care workers in the state to refuse flu shots. Current state law does not require such employees to get the influenza vaccination, but some health care facilities require workers to do so. A state...
