Poynette News

Some Poynette farmers may have to find alternative ways to control weeds in their corn if a proposal to expand an existing atrazine prohibition area is approved by the state Board of Agriculture, Trade and ...

Columbia County officials are talking - just talking - about the possibility of saving money by cutting back some or all of the county's operations to four days a week.

Jane Kohlwey choked up Wednesday morning as she apologized to the Columbia County Board's judiciary committee for "the embarrassment I caused to you and the county." The committee's chairman, Robert Boockmeier ...

A 42-year-old Waunakee man was killed Monday when his car crossed the center line on Highway 51 near Poynette and was hit by a semitruck carrying a load of sweet corn.

Rockets open with solid win on the road. Against rival North, Redwings bolt to 28-0 lead.

'Tilks' Football, baseball, track, basketball Thieleke, one of the area's top returning running backs, picked up where he left off and then some, rushing 21 times for 230 yards and two touchdowns as Howards ...

Tonight's games Fox River Classic Sheb. South at Sheb. North G.B. Southwest at G.B. Notre Dame Green Bay West at Pulaski Ashwaubenon at Bay Port De Pere at Manitowoc Sussex Hamilton at Green Bay East G.B. ...

The North Division of the Capitol Conference appears to have the same favorites it usually has.

The Dodge County Board of Supervisors Tuesday night approved hiring the first administrator for the county.

Rodney "R.J." Roudebush speaks in two languages simultaneously, sometimes unconsciously signing answers to a visitor who understands only his spoken words, when he says "family" was his first word signed and ...

A potentially dangerous search for a burglar who eluded sheriff's deputies and headed into the woods on an ATV, possibly toting three loaded rifles, ended peacefully Thursday in Columbia County with the suspect ...

Supervisor Harlan Baumgartner, a member of Columbia County's Planning and Zoning Committee, issued a challenge at the County Board's July meeting: Supervisors, rather than simply voting "yea" or "nay" on a ...

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' State Game Farm here will be hosting a free "Pheasant Field Day" on Saturday, September 6. Registration is at 8:00 a.m. The event will celebrate pheasant hunting ...

As California forests continue to burn in the state's worst ever wildfire season, Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources sent firefighters and equipment to help the effort.

Low water levels at the Spring Creek impoundment at French Creek Wildlife Area are the result of a drawdown and the waters in the wetland impoundment will be raised by the fall hunting season, according to the ...

Thunderstorms streamed across water-logged southern Wisconsin Thursday afternoon, spawning at least one tornado and dumping heavy rain that promises to worsen the state's widespread flooding problems.

With municipal leaders looking ahead to a possible Highway 54 bypass to the south of Wisconsin Rapids, one company has decided to reinvest in its current location on Eighth Street South.

However, the officers won't be street-ready until February of 2009. They go through 34-weeks of training, including 12 in the field, with a veteran officer.

The goal of "30 new officers" for the Madison Police Department is ready to be filled.

“We surgically implanted radio-transmitters in 16 adult sturgeon last fall, hoping to follow those fish for six years if funding allows. We need to know more about them because sturgeon are a species of concern and it's very easy to over-exploit them.”

PORTAGE, Wis. -- For decades, anglers have fished waters below the Wisconsin Dells Dam and in downstream Lake Wisconsin during a special autumn season for Wisconsin River sturgeon. via Dubuque Telegraph Herald