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The Wisconsin Legislature should act as quickly as this week or next to strike down Gov. Tony Evers’ mask mandate, Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said on Monday.

A popular Wisconsin Dells attraction has closed until further notice after two employees tested positive for the coronavirus. Noah’s Ark Waterpark announced the closing Saturday on its website. In a statement, Noah’s Ark says it has implemented extensive safety protocols since opening this summer. The water park said it will be working closely with the Sauk County Health Department...

Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers on Thursday issued a statewide mask mandate amid a spike in coronavirus cases, setting up a conflict with Republican legislative leaders who oppose such a requirement and successfully sued earlier to kill a “safer at home” order.

Agriculture officials in Illinois issued a warning to residents Tuesday to not open, plant or throw out “unsolicited shipments of seeds from foreign countries.” The alert comes amid reports from people in several states who have received packages of what appear to be Chinese seeds. A similar warning was also issued in Wisconsin. The warnings state the seeds are unknown…

Agriculture officials in Illinois issued a warning to residents Tuesday to not open, plant or throw out “unsolicited shipments of seeds from foreign countries.” NBC 5’s Chris Coffey has more details.

Four states, including Wisconsin, were added to Chicago’s emergency travel order Tuesday, requiring anyone visiting or returning to the city from one of now 22 states to self-quarantine for 14 days.

Agriculture officials say Wisconsin residents are receiving unsolicited packages of what appear to be Chinese seeds. Authorities in multiple states issued warnings Monday about unsolicited shipments of foreign seeds and advised people not to plant them. They said the seeds are unknown and could be invasive species or be harmful to people or livestock. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and...

Residents across the United States are finding packages of seeds mailed to them from China in what is believed to be part of a scam to skew online shopping algorithms.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot said she will add Wisconsin to the city’s emergency travel order. Meanwhile, Gov. J.B. Pritzker sends a warning to a downstate county that is close to seeing restrictions placed on it. NBC 5 political reporter Mary Ann Ahern reports.

Chicago won’t be adding Indiana to its emergency travel order this week, the city’s mayor said, though she noted the city is “watching all of our neighbors very carefully.”

A western Wisconsin man will share his millions in lottery winnings with a longtime friend because of a promise they made to each other nearly three decades ago.

Racine, Green Bay and Superior joined Madison and Milwaukee as Wisconsin cities that passed mandates requiring people to wear masks in certain public settings, though Gov. Tony Evers has resisted issuing a statewide order like those in place in many nearby states. More than half of states have statewide mask mandates, including Illinois, Michigan and Minnesota, which announced its on…

A federal judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by two dozen Wisconsin residents challenging a variety of local stay-at-home orders enacted to curb the spread of the coronavirus. U.S. District Judge William Griesbach on Monday dismissed the challenge, filed in May, saying those bringing it did not properly join all of the defendants into one lawsuit. That mistake requires that the lawsuit...

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is offering a reward of up to $10,000 to find a Fort Atkinson man charged with killing his sister and her husband, shooting at a deputy and burning down a house in southeast Wisconsin last month. The agency announced the reward Monday for information leading to the arrest and conviction of 62-year-old…

A statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood for more than 30 years in his namesake Wisconsin city is coming down. The Columbus City Council voted Tuesday to put the statue in storage until another use for it is found. The fiberglass statue stands at the intersection of Highways 16-60 and 151 in Columbus, a city of 5,000 about 30…

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is retreating from its original plans to name businesses and other places where there have been at least two confirmed cases of the coronavirus after businesses groups and Republican lawmakers opposed the idea. The department told local health officials in a call last week that it initially planned to start naming the businesses online…

The missing 10-year-old girl, Kodie Dutcher, was found dead late Tuesday morning, according to police. Less than a day after she went missing from her home in Baraboo, Wisc., Kodie’s body was found near County Hwy T and 12th Street, as reported by NBC 15 Madison. Police released no further information at this time. Kodie had last been seen at…

Huge crowds gathered on Bradford Beach in Milwaukee, Wisconsin over the weekend with little social distancing and no masks. (WTMJ)

Now-viral video shows the moment a family boating on a Wisconsin lake saved a black bear swimming with its head trapped in plastic. (Video taken by Tricia Hurt)

Now-viral video shows the moment a family boating on a Wisconsin lake saved a black bear swimming with its head trapped in plastic. The scene unfolded on Marshmiller Lake, just north of Eau Claire, as Tricia, Brian and Bradley Hurt came across what they believe was a baby black bear with its head stuck in a plastic tub. “Never dreamt…