Durand News

Merger talks could have an impact on a number of local John Deere dealers in the Eau Claire, Wis., area.

Murder charges are filed for the death of a boy in western Wisconsin. The 18-month old toddler was pronounced dead last week at the Durand Hospital.

A local man taken into custody Saturday remains in jail pending charges of second-degree murder.

When Pat Bauer retired from dairy farming 11 years ago, he asked God what he should do next.

A poster commemorates the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Durand Silver Sabres Drum and Bugle Corps.

Road work. It's the one thing, other than boat trailers, that motorists can expect to see on central Wisconsin roadways every summer.

State biologists have confirmed that tracks left in the mud last week on a farm east of Durand were from a large cat, most likely a cougar.

A rural Durand couple is suing a railroad motor car club saying members have been trespassing on their property, according to Pepin County court records.

The rain didn't stop us! Recently, 52 Seniors on the Move! members from the Marshfield Area YMCA ventured out to tackle the Chippewa River State Park Trail despite the rainy weather forecast.

A rare cougar might have been roaming on a large dairy farm near Durand. Marty Weiss said his son found footprints in wet, muddy soil on their dairy farm last Wednesday in the town of Lima and those tracks appeared to be from a cougar.

A state wildlife expert says tracks found at a large dairy farm near Durand in western Wisconsin probably were from a cougar.

The Department of Natural Resources believes a cougar may have left a series of animal tracks near a livestock pen east of Durand.

The Old Courthouse Museum located on Washington Square in downtown Durand opened its doors for the season.

Jailers and inmates are on extreme ends of the legal spectrum, but they worked together Tuesday to save the life of a Pepin County Jail inmate.

Jordan Meade, of Durand, Wis., is thrown during the saddle bronc competition of the 6th annual WHSRA Regional Rodeo at the Tri-State Equine Park in Dubuque on Saturday.

What: About 20 artists at 11 Wisconsin sites near Lake Pepin, showing and selling handmade pottery, jewelry, weavings, traditional German cut-paper designs, paintings, garden fountains and ornaments.

Twenty-five homes west of Durand were evacuated Wednesday afternoon after a pipe carrying natural gas ruptured near the intersection of Highways N and P, south of Arkansaw.

A natural gas leak from a ruptured pipe caused the evacuation of 25 homes west of Durand Wednesday afternoon.

Pepin County sheriffs officials say the woman who died in Tuesday's crash near Durand, was 38-year old Michelle Nelson of Eau Claire.

Couple: John Doucette and Elizabeth Zika Parents: Bill and Mary Doucette of Rochester, and Bob and Mary Zika of Durand, Wis.