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Heavy downpours tonight and Friday with one Michigan area targeted for up to 5 inches of rain
We have a delicate weather situation over southern Michigan tonight and Friday. Slow moving thunderstorms with copious moisture to tap into could bring some very heavy rains. This heavy rain situation I’m talking about isn’t going to flood everyone. We can use Wisconsin right now as an example of what should be over southern Lower Michigan late tonight and Friday. Wisconsin has had very heavy rainfall in patches of thunderstorms today. Currently this evening there are three flash flood warnings in central Wisconsin due to rain amounts of two to five inches in a short time.
Wisconsin Tourism Awards Grant to IRONBULL’s Red Granite Grinder
WAUSAU, WI – The Department of Tourism announced a $9,335 Joint Effort Marketing (JEM) grant to IRONBULL aimed at attracting first time to veteran gravel bikers to the nonprofit organization’s signature Red Granite Grinder race. The annual event invites competitors to experience scenic, yet challenging gravel biking through...
Forgotten Wisconsin Cold Cases: Unidentified Remains - The waiting game
RHINELANDER, Wis. (WSAW) - For more than a year, our podcast has taken us through over a dozen cases involving missing people from central and northern Wisconsin. With each person, we were able to tell you their names and show their faces. This time though — that’s not the case....
Wisconsin student mental health struggles persist, according to DPI report
Wisconsin students are continuing to struggle with unprecedented mental health challenges with LGBTQ+ kids and girls facing disproportionate challenges, according to the Department of Public Instruction’s 2023 Youth Risk Behavior Survey Summary Report. The survey, which took place in the spring of 2023, included responses from 1,882 students in 42 public, charter and alternative high […]
Aliisa Helminen, who first got her hands on a golf trophy at 4 months old, does it again in winning Wisconsin Junior Girls Championship
Adding her name to a golf trophy the size and importance of the one she did Wednesday at Hartford Golf Club might be relatively new territory for Aliisa Helminen. But evidence emerged after her victory at the Wisconsin State Junior Girls Championship of the time the Menasha golfer added herself to one.
Minnesota Supreme Court rules person being threatened cannot brandish weapon if ‘reasonably possible to retreat’
The Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that when a person is being threatened or attacked, he or she must retreat if “reasonably possible” rather than brandish a “dangerous weapon.” In June 2021, Earley Romero Blevins pulled out a machete after a man with a knife allegedly threatened him on a rail platform in Minnesota. Blevins was […]