Colfax News

Fire yesterday caused extensive damage to a rural Colfax home. The blaze broke out shortly before noon at Mike Gibbs home on 771st Avenue.

A house is destroyed after a fire Wednesday evening. It happened at a single-story house on 860th Avenue east of Colfax.

Nearly 500 alpacas in a range of colors, sizes and ages will be auctioned this weekend in what organizers are calling North America's largest alpaca auction.

A jury in Dunn County finds a Colfax man 'not guilty' of vehicular homicide. Yesterday's verdict came after a 3-day trial for Kevin Edgemon, who was accused in the death of Jason Ogea of Menomonie.

This Aug. 2009 photo released by Peggy McAloon shows Algae in the Hay River Flowage Bay on Upper Tainter Lake near Colfax, Wis.

A program to help build youth leadership is based on a show that you may have seen on WEAU-13. The Greater Menomonie Area Chamber of Commerce will have high school and college students compete in "The Apprentice: Dunn county." The students will try to solve problems at area businesses.

Several corn mazes, combined with other fall attractions, are scheduled to open this weekend at sites in Dunn, Chippewa and Trempealeau counties.

Authorities are investigating a crash involving a school bus. It happened Thursday morning a little after 7 a.m. in Dunn County.

Bent at the waist, Jessica Rebak reached both arms wide, then pulled them through brown-black peat moss in a wheelbarrow in front of her.

Some corn and soybean producers in the town of Grant took a step this spring to help reduce the amount of phosphorous and nitrogen entering surface waters by participating in a no-till soybean and corn planting project.

A new grant is allowing one county to help people get rid of unwanted hazardous waste again.

The Chippewa Fire District responded to a barn fire east of Colfax early this morning.

Firefighters extinguished a barn fire early Monday morning in the town of Howard.

Farmers in northern Wisconsin say five years of lingering drought have caused concern about the long-term effect on their crops.

Farmers in northern Wisconsin say five years of lingering drought have caused concern about the long-term effect on their crops.

What: Three 18-by-20-inch paintings of Tainter Lake, lower Tainter Lake and Lake Menomin by Peggy McAloon.

GREENWOOD -- Mildred A. Herrick, 83, of Greenwood, died at her home Saturday, June 27, 2009.

A Dunn County prosecutor told jurors Thursday the mental limitations of a man who allegedly was sexually assaulted by a former Colfax municipal judge will be quite apparent once they hear the man testify.

Farmers at Windmill Dairy fed nearly three times as many mouths as usual Saturday morning.

Zor Shrine-Mehara Shrine Club members are looking forward to their state ceremonial today and Saturday in Menomonie.