accidents

MADISON –ReadyWisconsin is urging residents to take precautions against hot and humid conditions over the next several days. The National Weather Service has issued a Heat Advisory from 11 am to 9 pm Monday for Burnett, Pierce, Polk and St. Croix counties. Highs will be in the...

Dozens of residents returned home in Slinger this morning after two trains collided and derailed. Officials in the Washington County village evacuated more than 100 homes Sunday night after a freight train struck cars on another train at an intersection of two tracks owned by separate...

BALSAM LAKE -- One day shy of a year since a sheriff's deputy found the body of a toddler, locked in a car trunk when the owner came to retrieve the vehicle from a repair shop operated by the dead boy's father, Polk County District Attorney Daniel Steffen has concluded the boy's...

A rollover crash Sunday night on Goodhue County 1 Boulevard in Belle Creek Township resulted in the death of a Baldwin, Wisconsin, man. Brandon Angell, 20, was traveling west on County 1 shortly after 11 p.m. when he lost control of his vehicle and left the roadway, according to...

A flash-flood watch continues until tomorrow morning in west and southwest Wisconsin. Flood warnings are in effect on the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien and Buffalo County, the Yellow River at Babcock, the Rock River at Waupun, the Trempealeau River at Dodge and the Black...

A Deer Park motorcyclist died from his injuries two weeks after he was involved in a crash that killed his wife. According to a press release from the St. Croix County Sheriff's Office, Robert Kastens, 88, died at Regions Hospital on Saturday, June 7, due to complications resulting...

Authorities report at least four people were killed in separate traffic crashes during the Memorial Day Weekend. Marathon County authorities said Herman Krueger, 81, died at a Wausau hospital after a two-vehicle crash late Saturday afternoon north of Hatley in the town of Norrie....

A Belgian draft horse had to be euthanized last week, following a late-evening collision between a Ford pickup and a two-wheeled buggy being pulled by a two-horse team. Jeffrey Hellendrung, 44, of Baldwin, was westbound on 80th Street near 230th Avenue in the Town of Baldwin at...

Emergency responders from Roberts, Hammond and Baldwin were on the scene of a one-vehicle rollover that left one person injured about 8:15 a.m., Tuesday. The State Patrol reported one victim was out of his vehicle and laying in the median when the officer arrived. The sole occupant...

A rural Grantsburg woman died Friday morning when she lost control of her car on a snow-covered road and slid into the path of a semi-tractor on Hwy. 87 in Polk County. The driver was identified Monday as Cynthia L. Throngard, 61, of Grantsburg, A death notice on the Swedburg-Taylor...

A late season snowstorm turned roadways slick again Tuesday night and may have been responsible for a highway death near Hager City in Pierce County. Around 9:35 p.m., the Sheriff's Department was notified of a two-vehicle accident on US Highway 63 near 220th Ave. in the town of...