Final I-94 closures in Jefferson County zone season next week (The Capital Times) The final lane closures of the season for the Interstate 94 construction zone in Jefferson County are set for next week, the state Department of Transportation announced. I-94 will have a single lane closure in the eastbound and westbound directions from Airport Road (west of Lake Mills) to Wisconsin 26 (Johnson Creek) from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. next Monday through Thursday. One lane will remain open ...

Forecast says more snow on the way (Wisconsin State Journal) Three to 5 inches of snow are expected to accumulate across southern Wisconsin in the early morning today. The National Weather Service in Sullivan has issued a winter weather advisory for all counties in southern Wisconsin which will take effect early this morning and continue until noon or later in southern Wisconsin. In Marquette, Green Lake, Sauk, Columbia, Iowa, Dane and Lafayette counties, ...

SE Wisconsin gets first snowstorm of the season (WXOW 19 La Crosse) Associated Press - December 1, 2008 7:45 AM ET MILWAUKEE (AP) - A band of 6 to 10 inches of snow has fallen in southeastern Wisconsin in the season's first major snowstorm.

Wisconsin restaurant not exempt from smoking ban (AP via Yahoo! Finance) A Wausau restaurant owner can't get around the city's smoking ban by creating a "sham" private club with a $1 membership, a Wisconsin appeals court ruled Tuesday.

Wisconsin deer kill down 20 percent (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) WAUSAU, Wis. - Hunters killed 276,985 whitetail deer during Wisconsin's nine-day gun season, down 20 percent from a year ago based on preliminary counts, the state Department of Natural Resources reported Tuesday.

La Crosse Tribune editor John Smalley to head Wisconsin State Journal (Wisconsin State Journal) A veteran of newspapers in Wisconsin and Iowa has been named the top editor of the Wisconsin State Journal. John Smalley, editor of the La Crosse Tribune since 2002, will lead the State Journal as the 156-year-old Madison institution faces the twin challenges of a recession and a shift by readers toward the Internet. In making the announcement, Publisher Bill Johnston said he sees Smalley as a ...