At about 1:56 p.m., Salem Lakes Fire/Rescue units and a sheriff’s deputy are responding to the 9100 block of Fox River Road in Salem Lakes for a burning complaint.
Airlines are optimistic they can resume normal operations just a few days after the government lifts its order to cut some flights at 40 busy airports, but it’s not clear how soon that will happen even though the federal shutdown is over. The Federal Aviation Administration did announce Wednesday night that airlines won’t have to cut more than 6% of […]
When the Racine Community Foundation (RCF) was established in 1975, its founders couldn’t have imagined the challenges local families would face half a century later — rising food costs, housing insecurity, and recently, a sudden halt to SNAP benefits that left many wondering how they would keep hunger at bay. But through it all, one […]
Dillon Beyer woke up Monday morning to a flurry of text messages. A co-owner of Tree Huggers Cannabis, which is based in La Crosse with locations in Wisconsin and Minnesota, Beyer and his colleagues in Wisconsin’s hemp industry were beginning to learn that, tucked into the U.S. Senate bill to reopen the federal government, was […]
For 17 years, Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos has been helping Santa by delivering presents to children ages 6 to 99 throughout SE Wisconsin with her non-profit, Santa in a Shoebox. “I used to live in Racine, and 17 years ago, I just had an idea modeled after the Operation Christmas Child. We were going through another […]
RACINE COUNTY, WI — Over the past two nights in Wisconsin, the aurora borealis (northern lights) drifted much farther south than the usual high‑latitude zones. According to the U.S. National Science Foundation, the show was possible because charged particles streaming from the Sun collided with Earth’s magnetic field. Then, those particles were guided toward the […]