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Winter Daze 2024 in Menomonie

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Suggested Winter Reading List for Outdoor and Indoor People.

The dome of the Wisconsin Capitol Building in Madison. Photo by Quang Vuong.

Alaska kept its Final-Four Voting reforms. Another push is planned in Wisconsin.

Jim Troupis appears in a Dane County courtroom with his attorney Joseph Bugni Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2024, in Madison, Wis. (AP Photo/Morry Gash)

Former Trump attorney lashes out at 'lawfare' after court appearance in fake electors case

FILE - Trump campaign attorney Jim Troupis speaks during a hearing to discuss election security, Dec. 16, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (Jim Lo Scalzo/Pool Photo via AP, File)

Trump lawyers and aide hit with 10 additional felony charges in Wisconsin over 2020 fake electors

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Menomonie School Board considers strategic planning, school report cards

FILE - Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, waves to the crowd at a campaign event, Nov. 1, 2024, in Little Chute, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

The DNC chair candidates discuss Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and winning Latino voters (including Ben Wikler)

President Joe Biden speaks during a ceremony lighting the National Christmas Tree on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Biden is considering preemptive pardons for officials and allies before Trump takes office

Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, left, meets with Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump's nominee to be defense secretary, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 5, 2024. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Hegseth faces senators' concerns not only about his behavior but also his views on women in combat

FILE - This combination of file photos shows former Republican attorney general Brad Schimel and Susan Crawford. (AP Photo/Susan Crawford for Wisconsin, File)

Union rights take center stage in already high-stakes Wisconsin Supreme Court race

The main entrance of Lincoln Hills School and Copper Lake School is shown on Nov. 1, 2024, in Irma, Wis. Six years after the Wisconsin Legislature approved a plan to close the embattled youth prison, Republicans and Democrats are blaming each other for delays that have kept the complex open. (Drake White-Bergey for Wisconsin Watch)

One child, $463,000 per year: Ballooning costs of troubled Lincoln Hills youth prison

Holiday Events in Menomonie Bring Seasonal Cheer

FILE - This April 12, 2016 file photo shows the Microsoft logo in Issy-les-Moulineaux, outside Paris. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

FTC opens Microsoft antitrust investigation that Trump administration must carry on or drop

FILE - Kash Patel, former chief of staff to Acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller, speaks at a rally in Minden, Nev., Oct. 8, 2022. (AP Photo/José Luis Villegas, File)

Trump's FBI pick has plans to reshape the bureau. This is what Kash Patel has said he wants to do

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Judge strikes down core parts of Act 10 that stripped most public workers’ union rights

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Menomonie CIty Council restores full funding for Downtown Menomonie, not the Mabel Tainter

President Joe Biden accompanied by his son Hunter Biden and his grandson Beau leave a book store as they walk in downtown Nantucket Mass., Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Some Democrats are frustrated over Joe Biden reversing course and pardoning his son Hunter

President Biden pardons his son Hunter

FILE - The FBI seal is pictured in Omaha, Neb., Aug. 10, 2022. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

What to know about Kash Patel, Trump’s pick to lead the FBI

FILE - Ben Wikler, chair of the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, waves to the crowd at a campaign event, Nov. 1, 2024, in Little Chute, Wis. (AP Photo/Andy Manis, File)

Democratic leader Ben Wikler enters the race to lead the national party

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