Pepin County News

A youthful mistake doesn't have to land on your kid's permanent record, if they're willing to fess up in teen court.

A 33-year-old Spring Valley woman awaiting sentencing on a felony battery conviction was charged Thursday in Pierce County Court with threatening to harm two judges.

A plea deal is reached in a drug overdose death case in Pepin County. Monday Jared Severson, from Durand, pleaded no contest to reckless endangerment and delivery of narcotics.

Two west-central Wisconsin projects, in Pepin and Pierce counties, have been approved for low-interest loans.

A rural Durand woman is claiming a railroad motor car club has been trespassing on her property, according to Pepin County Court records.

Large cat tracks were found on a western Wisconsin farm and now the DNR is trying to determine if they belong to a cougar.

The Old Courthouse Museum located on Washington Square in downtown Durand opened its doors for the season.

It may not take long for the clean sweep to make a comeback in two counties. Last week, the joint finance committee voted to restore funding to the clean sweep program.

Jailers and inmates are on extreme ends of the legal spectrum, but they worked together Tuesday to save the life of a Pepin County Jail inmate.

The Great River Birding Festival is under way in the Lake Pepin area. Birding by boat is planned Friday through Sunday.

Twenty-five homes west of Durand were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a pipe carrying natural gas ruptured near the intersection of Highways N and P, south of Arkansaw.

A natural gas leak from a ruptured pipe caused the evacuation of 25 homes west of Durand Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities are evacuating people in a Pepin County township following a natural gas leak.

Local unemployment rates throughout western Wisconsin took a little climb upward in March, according to figures released by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development.

Pepin County sheriffs officials say the woman who died in Tuesday's crash near Durand, was 38-year old Michelle Nelson of Eau Claire.

A crash Tuesday morning kills an Eau Claire woman. The crash happened around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, on Highway 85 near the Dunn County/Pepin County line.

A two-vehicle crash kills one person, and sends three others to the hospital. It happened around 10:30 Tuesday morning, on Hwy 85 near the Dunn County - Pepin County line.

An Eau Claire woman died when her van collided with a semi tanker Tuesday morning in Pepin County.

One person was killed today in a two vehicle crash on the Pepin-Dunn County line.

A brush fire hit a little too close to home for a Pepin County resident. A fire burned behind Bob Berger's home in the Town of Albany late Wednesday afternoon.