After sharing pages since the mid-1980s, the (Osseo) Tri-County News and Augusta Area Times will merge this week into one publication, the newspapers announced.
Beginning Thursday, Feb. 4, the new publication will be known as the Tri-County Area Times. Sean Scallon, editor and reporter for both the News and Times, will continue to hold both roles with the merged publication.
No one in Wisconsin should have to put their lives at risk to attend a public meeting, Larry Gallup writes in the latest "Your Right to Know" column.
Yet to this day, Republican leaders in the Wisconsin state Assembly are holding meetings without requiring attendees to wear masks or offering a video option for those who don’t feel safe attending.
He was more embarrassed than injured, but icy steps led to a fall for Chris Hardie on a recent early morning walk with the family dog.
In recent decades, the distribution of spending between state and local government in Wisconsin has undergone a slow but profound shift, with the gap between the local and state shares nearly erased.
A new poll question about whether masks should be required in public places is available to be used by WNA members. We are revisiting the question in light of Wisconsin Republicans’ efforts to end Gov. Tony Evers’ statewide mask mandate.
Results from our previous poll question about readers’ expectations of the next four years are also available. Of 669 respondents, 64% said their expectations were generally positive.
Out of 669 respondents, 64% said their expectations for the next four years were generally positive, while 28% had a generally negative outlook.
Wisconsin lawmakers in 2020 claimed per diems totaling $555,149, about 70 percent of what they took home in the previous election year, as the COVID-19 pandemic cut into activity at the Capitol, a WisPolitics.com review found.
State officials knew little about the secretive industry until the pandemic struck; now they are scrambling to keep mink farmers and their animals safe
After 43 years in the industry, Kathy Potter is retiring from her role as general manager for several News Publishing Company weekly newspapers and shoppers, the company announced Wednesday.
A Black River Falls native, Potter got her start in the late 1970s selling ads for the Jackson County Shopper. In 1985, she left to start her own publication, The Shopper’s Choice.
She sold the shopper in 1989 to News Publishing Company, where she went on to oversee day-to-day operations of three weekly newspapers and a group of shoppers as general manager. Potter remained in the role until her retirement this week. Succeeding her as general manager will be Julie Iverson.
The Post-Crescent has named Brad Star as its consumer business reporter, the Appleton newspaper announced this week.
Star, who has been with the newspaper’s parent company since July 2019, introduced himself to readers in a column Wednesday. He succeeds Maureen Wallenfang, who left in late November.
A native of the Milwaukee area, Star earned his bachelor’s degree from Beloit College in 2019, where he majored in business economics and served as news editor and editor-in-chief of The Round Table student newspaper. After graduating, he joined USA TODAY NETWORK-Wisconsin as a producer.
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