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After deliberating in closed session Monday night, the Somerset School District Board of Education reconvened in open session and unanimously voted to increase all district employees wages by 2 percent. However, that wage increase will come with a price tag of sorts: higher health...

The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development (DWD) announced Wednesday the preliminary June 2014 unemployment rates for Wisconsin’s 72 counties. At 4.2 percent, St. Croix County’s rate is the second lowest in the state. St. Croix’s June rate is higher than May’s final...

For most people, shopping on Amazon is the easiest, and sometimes cheapest, way to get the things they want, be it books, movies or anything else they could think of. However, not only is Amazon a convenient way to shop, it is also an easy way to help raise money for local organizations...

MILWAUKEE -- A recent statewide poll gave ammunition to those seeking reforms in Wisconsin prisons. According to the new Marquette Law School poll, only one of every five registered voters thought the prison system was doing a good or excellent job of turning inmates into productive...

The Somerset Village Board unanimously voted to take part in a highway safety improvement program at its July 15 meeting that will install traffic lights at the Highway 35/County Road C intersection. Village Trustee Ryan Sicard said the village was approached by Wisconsin Department...

MADISON -- Wisconsin has made a new offer to restore income tax reciprocity with Minnesota, so 80,000 people who work across the border can again file taxes with their home state instead of both. The latest offer does not include the State of Minnesota's request for an extra payment...

The La Grandeur Road expansion project and funding were given the green light at the Somerset Village Board meeting Tuesday, July 15, to the tune of $1.095 million. Bids opened June 20 for the project, which will expand La Grandeur Road northward through the industrial park to...

Although some of the individual budgetary items remain to be finalized, members of the St. Croix Central School Board agreed that $23.995 million was the bottom line needed to implement a sweeping list of additions and improvements recommended by the Facilities Task Force (FTF). Board...

MILWAUKEE -- With the governor's race in a dead heat, Republican Scott Walker says the key to his re-election is for his supporters to call voters and knock on their doors. A new Marquette Law School poll released Wednesday shows Walker leads Democrat Mary Burke 46- to 45 percent...

A Hammond man matched all five numbers on a Badger 5 lottery ticket he bought at the BP gas station in Hammond on Tuesday, July 8 and won $57,000. According to store manager Debbie Benson, Richard Geurkink of Hammond bought the ticket Tuesday, and came into the store Wednesday...

Gov. Scott Walker's office says it will not rush to create Wisconsin's own health care marketplace to preserve tax subsidies that were placed in doubt yesterday. A federal appeals court in Washington said the federal subsidies in the Affordable Care Act apply only to 14 states...