While the number of victims seeking sexual assault services is rising, the Office of Justice Assistance reports that sexual assaults reported to law enforcement in Wisconsin dropped in 2009, with two counties, Iron and Buffalo, reporting zero sexual assault cases.
The decrease from 2008 wasn’t huge — only 17 fewer reports than the year before — [...]

WisconsinWatch’s resident librarian helps you find parks, gas prices and other vacation-planning tips.

If you’re like me, you’ve probably got a dad with more tools and yard equipment than he could use in a lifetime. That always makes shopping for your Father’s Day gift a little tricky.
Also like me, you’ll probably wimp out and charge up a Gander Mountain or Fleet Farm gift card and let the old [...]

In the best-case scenario, we’ll be able to eat all the Lake Michigan lake trout we want without worrying about getting cancer from the PCBs — in another 20 years.
Less optimistically, we might have to wait until 2046.
Those are the predictions of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency researchers, who have modeled how long it will take [...]

Hiding more than 700 “roommates” from the state may seem like a tall order, but a small group in a Wisconsin women’s prison tried to pull it off to get unearned housing tax refunds.
Some got away with it too, for a while. Wendy Nelsen, 44, in prison for soliciting a child for prostitution, was convicted [...]

New data released last week from a research center at Syracuse University says immigrants facing deportation or seeking asylum, including individuals detained in Wisconsin, are waiting more than a year to have their day in court.
The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse reports that nationwide, the number of cases awaiting trial reached 242,776 at the end of March, [...]

National health rankings report that large numbers of people in Wisconsin are exposed to contaminated drinking water.

Our resident librarian hones in on dairy stats, rankings and resources on Wisconsin InfoLink.