Grant County News

PLATTEVILLE, Wis. - If you want to launch fireworks in Grant County, you need to have a permit.

The unemployment rate in Grant County, Wis., increased slightly in May. According to the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, the Grant County jobless rate went from 7.3 percent in April to 7.4 percent in May.

A Grant County woman faces child abuse charges after a toddler is found with severe burns to her feet.

LANCASTER, Wis. -- A Rewey woman was injured when a motorcycle hit a deer crash Wednesday.

The National Weather Service has issued severe weather advisories for southern Wisconsin for Thursday night and Friday morning.

LANCASTER, Wis. -- Grant County firefighters have additional information about a fire that destroyed a barn Tuesday morning on Muldoon Lane, east of Lancaster.

Overnight thunderstorms dumped 3 to 7 inches of rain in parts of southern Crawford County, northern Grant County and western Iowa County.

The Regional Dairy Modernization Task Force, a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Platteville, Southwest Wisconsin Technical College, Illinois, Iowa and Wisconsin Extension offices, and several industry leaders, will offer a forum addressing manure management for moderate-sized dairies from 1 to 3 p.m. Wednesday, June 17.

BEETOWN, Wis. -- Paving work has started on Grant County U from Beetown to Grant County N -- also known as "Hurricane N." Grant County Highway Commissioner Dave Lambert said motorists using the road can expect delays over the next couple of weeks.

One person is dead after an accident in southwest Wisconsin. The crash happened just before 2:45 Sunday morning about a mile west of Rail Hollow Road.

Dubuque County: 916 properties, $1,036,636 owed Jackson County: 356 properties, $351,148 owed Clayton County: 373 properties, $281,731 owed tax sales set The tax sales will be held at 9 a.m. Monday, June 15, at the courthouses of Dubuque, Jackson and Clayton counties.

It looks like work on Porter's Bridge between Bloomington and Lancaster won't start until after the Grant County Dairy Breakfast.

The city of Platteville has hired Brian Allen to the position of EMS administrator.

Tammy Enz, executive director of Friends of the Platte River. DICKEYVILLE, Wis. -- Tammy Enz grew up in the Platteville area.

Authorities continued looking Sunday for the alleged assailant of a 14-year-old Stitzer girl, after a multiple-agency land and air search Saturday night failed to locate the suspect.

Phil Garthwaite is running on the Democratic ticket for a seat on the Wisconsin Assembly District 49.

A soft-spoken roofing crew of three men dressed in blue stands with knees angled like blue herons, each bent in the whispering rain.

Investigators believe they know who's responsible for a long, unsolved murder of a young woman.

A phone call to authorities in 2003 has led to the reopening of a 1980 murder case in southwestern Wisconsin - and to DNA evidence pointing to a suspect.

Grant County authorities are looking for a man in an assault and attempted abduction of a 14-year-old girl.