Author Archives: Mike Leischner
Defense Requests Delay in Brooks Trial
WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) -- The defense team for the man accused of killing six people and injuring dozens more during the Waukesha Chrismas Parade is asking to delay the trial into next year. Attorneys fo...
Mar 29, 2022 Darrell Brooks
Summerfest 2022 Concert Lineup Announced
MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Over 100 musicians have been signed on to play the 2022 Summerfest in Milwaukee. Festival organizers have announced Jason Aldean, Halsey, Justin Bieber, Machine Gun Kelly, Rod ...
Mar 29, 2022 Robert Geiger / CC
Evers Asks for Quick Decision Regarding Political Maps
MADISON, WI (WSAU-WRN) -- Governor Tony Evers is asking the State Supreme Court to come to a swift decision regarding political maps that were recently thrown out by the US Supreme Court. Evers says h...
Mar 24, 2022 Governor Tony Evers speaks in Green Bay on May 25th, 2021. (WTAQ/Rob Sussman)
Supreme Court Overturns Two WI Political Maps
WASHINGTON, DC (WSAU) -- The US Supreme Court has thrown out two of the state's redrawn political maps, citing the Federal Voting Rights act. The state's Assembly and Senate maps were tossed with the ...
Mar 23, 2022 David / CC
Ballot Dropbox Plans Announced for Madison, Milwaukee
MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Election officials in the state's two largest cities have announced differing plans for absentee voters ahead of the Spring Non-Partisan Election. Milwaukee officials plant to st...
Mar 16, 2022 Absentee Ballot dropbox in Wausau. Image courtesy: Mayor Katie Rosenberg/Facebook
Baldwin Signs on to Democrat-Supported Oil Tax Bill
WASHINGTON, DC (WSAU) -- Wisconsin's Tammy Baldwin is cosponsoring legislation designed to bring relief to Americans paying higher gas prices by taxing oil companies to prevent price gauging. The Big ...
Mar 14, 2022 Tammy Baldwin
Evers Signs 19 Bills Including ATV Speed Limit Signage, License Plate Standards
MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Governor Tony Evers has signed 19 bills into law. Among those are bills that create a standard thickness and reflectivity for vehicle license plates; requiring any plate that's m...
Mar 11, 2022 Eugene Kim / CC
Trial Date Set For Waukesha Parade Suspect
WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) -- The man suspected of driving his SUV into the Waukesha Christmas Parade last November will go to trial in October. Judge Jennifer Darow set the trial for Darrell Brooks Jr. to b...
Mar 11, 2022 Darrell Brooks
Century-Old Western Wisconsin Bar and Restaurant Destroyed in Fire
LUCK, WI (WSAU) -- A staple of the Polk County community of Luck went up in flames this week. KARE 11 TV in the Twin Cities reports the Luck-E Bar and Restaurant was destroyed by fire. Officials recei...
Mar 10, 2022 Fire at the Luck-E Bar and Restaurant in Luck. Image courtesy: Luck Fire Department/Facebook
Baldwin Signs on to Bi-Partisan Bio Fuels Proposal
WASHINGTON, DC (WSAU) -- US Senator Tammy Baldwin has signed on to a bill to incentivize the production of biofuels such as ethanol and biodiesel as gas prices continue to climb, introduced on Wednesd...
Mar 09, 2022 Tammy Baldwin
