Oconomowoc News

Burglary charges have been filed against a man and his girlfriend from Oconomowoc accused of breaking into the Brookfield home of a lifelong friend of the young woman's mother.

In recognition of National Police Week and National Peace Officers Memorial Day , the Waukesha County Police Chaplains Association is holding a ceremony to honor fallen officers.

With college costing more than $22,000 a year on average, it's an expensive place to figure out what you want to be when you grow up, said Laura Schmidt, interim director of college and career readiness for the New Berlin School District.

The annual Big Event to benefit the Sharon Lynne Wilson Center for the Arts drew on the fame of Motown.

When you're stuck in traffic, you may find it hard to believe that Wisconsin was once a frontier state and a wild place.

Pabst Farms Development, Inc. and Kings Way Homes, LLC are thrilled to announce the recent double groundbreaking at Village Crossing at Pabst Farms, a luxury condominium development consisting of maintenance-free, side-by-side, ranch style condominium homes, located off I-94 and Highway 67 in the city of Oconomowoc and the town of Summit.

Despite the low cost of testing and recommendations by the Environmental Protection Agency , several school districts in the Lake Country have never tested for radon, a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that is the leading cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers in the United States.

Despite the anger among some local residents and officials over Aurora Health Care's decision to stop delivering babies at Memorial Hospital of Burlington, at least one member of the mayor's advisory committee on health care believes it would be a mistake for the city to partner with a competing provider to build a second hospital here.

Whether you carried your baby for nine long months, navigated the challenging and amazing road of adoption or became a mother in a different way, you are bonded to your children like no one else.

By Kevin Murphy Special to the Union MADISON - A 29-year-old Oconomowoc man who distributed a video of himself having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old Town of Concord girl on the Internet was sentenced in federal court Friday to 15 years in prison.

The Oconomowoc, WI Wastewater Treatment Facility needed to repair or replace the existing shallow bed traveling bridge sand filters.

Kyle Lutz, 29, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Lynn Adelman in federal court in Madison on Friday, the State Journal reports .

Firefighters were called to a home on Hartwell Place in Oconomowoc around 5:00 a.m. after the homeowner heard something in their backyard.

To call Nina Radi's apartment a "colorful" space is putting it mildly. It's more of a testament to joyful, exuberant living.

According to a statement, Kyle Lutz, 29, was charged with six counts of second-degree sexual assault of a child, two counts of child enticement and one count of exposing a child to harmful material in November.

The Milwaukee Underground Film Festival , a student-run program of international short films, returns at several venues this weekend, including: A "preshow" at 3 p.m. Friday at the Fine Arts Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's Mitchell Hall, 3203 N. Downer Ave.; followed by the opening-night program at 7 p.m. Friday at UWM Union ... (more)

Briohn Building Corp ., Brookfield, completed a renovation and an addition to Plank Road Publishing at 11111 W. Plank Court, Wauwatosa.

She was 7 pounds, 14 ounces and 20 inches. She joins brothers Trevor and Nathan.

From elegant and stately mansions to modern, environmentally friendly abodes, southeastern Wisconsin is chock-full of one-of-a-kind homes for sale.

They keep getting bad health inspections, and we keep going back. Here's what the manager at this pizza spot on the near southside had to say this time.