Apr. 3, 2025
From the Mt. Pleasant Tourism Commission:
The Mount Pleasant Tourism Commission is boosting its efforts to highlight places that make the community unique and invites local residents to help by sharing their local favorites.
The Village’s Tourism Commission launched a quick and easy...
Apr. 2, 2025 10:15p
(WGTD)---The Racine City Council has overridden a veto by Mayor Cory Mason.
Mason had tried to kill a set of council procedural changes that supporters said would restore the balance of power between the city's executive and legislative branches.
Wednesday night's vote by the...
Apr. 2, 2025 12:10a
From WGTD News:
In top local races in the WGTD listening area Tuesday, voters in Pleasant Prairie promoted village Trustee Dave Klimisch to the position of village President. Klimisch defeated challenger Eric Meadows and will replace John Steinbrink, Sr. who’s retiring.
Voters in...
Mar. 28, 2025 3p
(WGTD)---Legislators who attended a state budget listening session at Gateway in Racine this week got a pep talk of sorts from a 27-year-old Gateway Technical College student.
Rook Antczak is a member of the LGBTQ community.
Antczak first read statements from several friends who...
Mar. 27, 2025 9p
(WGTD)---Egg prices are coming down as cases of bird flu lessen. But wholesale prices are still three times higher than what they were just last October.
Frank’s Diner in downtown Kenosha is one eatery that uses a lot of eggs—over 700 on an average Saturday or Sunday. Those eggs go...
Mar. 26, 2025 8p
(WGTD)---A depressing yet inspiring play about gun violence in America and its impact on the trauma specialists who deal with it is on stage this weekend at Carthage College.
“Terminal Exhale” is a verbatim-styled production in which Carthage students interviewed nearly a dozen front...
Mar. 25, 2025 6:20p
(WGTD)---Two competing views of the Trump administration’s massive federal workforce reduction initiative were offered Tuesday in separate town halls.
1st District Congressman Bryan Steil—a Janesville Republican—suggested that some of the dislike of Elon Musk’s Department of...
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