10/10/2024

N. WISC / UP – This week is National Fire Prevention Awareness week.  It’s a good time to check fire safety equipment in your home such as fire extinguishers, carbon monoxide detectors and chimneys.  Fire Prevention Week was started by the National Fire Protection Association in 1922 in commemoration of the great Chicago Fire that occurred in 1871.

10/9/2024

WATERSMEET - The Gogebic County Sheriff’s Office reports that a crash on US 2 brought traffic between Wakefield and Watersmeet yesterday morning. A van hit a parked semi-truck in the area of US 2 and County Road 527. Traffic was diverted from the area and for some time the area was treated as a construction zone. Whether there were injuries to anyone in either vehicle is unknown. The Gogebic County Sheriff’s office reported that the Watersmeet Police Department was investigating the circumstances of the crash.

10/9/2024

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers’ creative use of his expansive veto power in an attempt to lock in a school funding increase for 400 years comes before the state Supreme Court today. A key question before the court is whether the law allows governors to strike digits to create a new number. The case is the latest flashpoint in a decades-long fight over just how broad Wisconsin’s governor’s partial veto powers should be. The veto in question by Evers made a school funding increase that was originally to end in 2025 go on until 2425.