Compared to other states, Wisconsin’s birth rate is relatively low, ranking 38th of the 50 states and 5.6 percent below the national average of 12.2 births per 1,000 people.
The Shorewood Historical Society is selling birthday markers for residents’ homes to fund the digitization of its newspaper archive.
Rock County officials’ text messages will be archived and available as public records beginning this week, The (Janesville) Gazette reported.
Danielle Danford, reporter for the (Frederic) Inter-County Leader and (Shell Lake) Washburn County Register, was one of 28 journalists selected for a yearlong fellowship, the newspaper announced.
Ryan Curtis joined The (Menomonie) Dunn County News staff as a sports and general reporter earlier this month, the newspaper announced.
Some Brown County supervisors have gone years without using their official county email addresses, Doug Schneider of the Green Bay Press-Gazette reported.
Longtime sports editor Jody Korch retired this month from the (Marinette) EagleHerald after more than three decades at the newspaper.
WASHINGTON ISLAND – Bucking the perception that newspapers are in decline, the Washington Island Observer says it is getting better every year. The Door County weekly newspaper,
The Madison Police Department has launched an effort to catalog the locations of private surveillance cameras so they can access footage for investigations. Collected footage would be subject to open records law.
Records show that the city of Ashland has dumped nearly 75 million gallons of diluted raw sewage into Lake Superior over the past five years.
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