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Flock tightens safeguards as surveillance questions grow

Flock Safety is tightening privacy and oversight controls for its nationwide network of automated license plate readers as more communities pull back from the technology and lawmakers across the political spectrum push for new restrictions. The company announced Thursday it will recommend ...

Nearly $1 million conservation easement approved in Vilas County

Michael A. Uihlein is a man of his word. For more than 70 years, his family has owned about 1,250 acres of forest land in northern Wisconsin. The 90-year-old Cedarburg resident said his parents were staunch conservationists, and they wanted to keep their property in Vilas County from being ...

Measles outbreak grows in southwest Wisconsin

A report early last week of a couple of measles cases in southwest Wisconsin has turned into an outbreak, with 13 more confirmed cases and six probable cases of the viral illness, the state health department reported Thursday. The outbreak in Iowa and Lafayette counties highlights the ...

Picasso etching stolen in 2018 found in vacant apartment

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Bill DeLind thought the Picasso print that was stolen from his Milwaukee gallery in 2018 was gone forever. But then police called last week and asked him to look an artwork that a local landlord found while cleaning out a vacant apartment. DeLind immediately ...

Wisconsin DNR seeks solutions to rising wolf depredation claims

Wisconsin regulators can now forge ahead with regulations to prioritize and prorate payments for wolf attacks on livestock and dogs due to a potential funding shortfall. The policymaking board for the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted the agency approval to craft regulations ...

Wisconsin congressional primaries set stage for November

With Tuesday’s primary elections now complete, the slate of candidates is set for Wisconsin’s U.S. House elections in November. In the 7th Congressional District, Michael Alfonso of Hayward, the 26-year-old son-in-law of U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, won a crowded, often-contentious Republican primary. Fred Clark, 67, of Bayfield, a state Assembly member from 2009 to 2015, won the Democratic primary over two others. In the 7th District congressional primary in Florence County, Alfonso led Republicans with 465 votes, followed by Kevin Hermening with 138 and Jessi ...