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Software aims to help local governments standardize, streamline solar permitting
The small southeastern Minnesota city of La Crescent receives just a handful of permit applications each year to install solar panels on homes. Despite the small volume, it’s still important to city sustainability coordinator Jason Ludwigson that it’s a smooth process for homeowners and installers. That’s why the...
An American history of motherhood, mentorship, & empowering women's leadership | Teachers' Lounge Podcast
On a new Teachers’ Lounge podcast, we’re talking with Dr. Jodi Vandenberg-Daves. She’s a coach, consultant, mentor, editor, author and -- above all -- an educator. Jodi spent the past 25 years as a professor at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse. She was recently the chair of the Department of Race, Gender, and Sexuality studies.
‘Death by a thousand cuts’: Rains renew Madison’s flooding worries
Despite millions spent to improve Madison sewers in recent years, a top city official says flooded streets may remain a routine occurrence in years like this with higher rainfall. Deputy City Engineer Greg Fries, who has managed Madison’s storm and sanitary sewers for 33 years, said the options to prevent...
Wisconsin Democrats waffle on Biden as GOP proclaims unity after Milwaukee convention
As Democratic pressure mounts on President Joe Biden to withdraw from the presidential race, Wisconsin Democrats have largely continued to walk a fine line — though cracks in support are beginning to show. Rep. Gwen Moore’s office has said the Milwaukee Democrat supports Biden’s reelection bid but did not respond to questions about...
28-year anniversary of Illinois’s biggest rainfall in recorded history
A swath of heavy rainfall occurred across portions of south central Wisconsin, northeast Illinois, and northwest Indiana on July 17-18, 1996. From the National Weather Service: The heaviest rainfall was observed near Aurora, Illinois, with a maximum point rainfall of 16.94 inches in a 24-hour period. The 24-hour rainfall measured near Aurora remains the statewide record (as […]
Lake Mills grad James Dunkleberger to be inducted into UW-Madison Athletic Hall of Fame
James Dunkleberger started his decathlete career at the University of Wisconsin-Madison just hoping to make the travel squad for meets. He ended it by becoming the 1997 NCAA champion in the decathlon, scoring 7,924 points. Dunkleberger, a 1992 graduate of Lake Mills High School, was recently announced as a member of the 2024 UW Athletic Hall of Fame and will officially be inducted during a banquet on Sept. 6 before...
Bat houses approved, tiki bar denied at Pettibone by La Crosse Park Board
Some changes to Pettibone Park were brought before La Crosse’s park board on Thursday. Approved was a plan to install bat houses in the park. Staffers say as many as 500 brown bats have been living under the Pettibone bridge, and the elevated houses would give them a better place to stay.
Loggers comeball falls short against Minot
Another tough comeback fell short Thursday for the La Crosse Loggers baseball team at Copeland Park. The Loggers fell 6-5 at Minot, scoring four runs in the eighth inning. That comes after scoring five runs in the bottom of the ninth on Wednesday, before falling 11-9 to Duluth. The two...
1 person injured in structure fire
LA CROSSE, Wis. (WEAU) - One person is injured following a structure fire in La Crosse earlier today. According to a news release from the La Crosse Fire Department, on July 18 at about 2:33 p.m., it responded to 1416 Gillette Street for the report of a structure fire. When...
EF-0 tornado in southern WI from July 16 storms: National Weather Service
SULLIVAN, Wis. - The National Weather Service (NWS) in Sullivan identified on Friday, July 19 another tornado rated EF-0 from the storms that passed through southern Wisconsin on Tuesday, July 16. Officials say the tornado passed through the southwest side of Evansville – a little more than 20 miles south...
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