River Hills News

There has been much discussion in the state Legislature regarding job creation and helping businesses grow in Wisconsin.

At the outset, I want to emphasize that the police officers are conducting this course on their own time as volunteers.

When the co-chair of the Legislature's powerful Committee on Joint Finance says it might be best if you stepped down, you know you and your agency are in for a long, hard day.

Regarding the stories about our state legislators and food programs, does our state Legislature have no bigger issue to address than dictating what poor people eat? If legislators are so concerned about healthy eating, why don't they simply pass a law that bans all junk food sales? People who rely on FoodShare to supplement their income to buy ... (more)

To close a shortfall in the state's roads fund, the Legislature's budget committee Thursday cut funding for highways and other projects by $59.5 million, which would delay work on the massive I-94 North-South and Zoo Interchange projects in the Milwaukee area.

Three granddaughters of Charles Pfister Vogel, a Milwaukee industrial titan and civic leader of the early 20th century, have sued a Mequon woman who they say defrauded their mother and her estate of more than $1 million in a series of transactions and legal maneuvers that have also drawn the attention of federal agents with the FBI and IRS.

A trend of declining funding for local child support enforcement would be reversed, putting the pressure back on deadbeat parents and safeguarding millions of dollars in endangered federal money, under a proposal unanimosly approved by the Legislature's budget committee Tuesday.

A teenager who struck another boy with a machete in a ninja-like attack pleaded no contest in juvenile court Friday to second-degree reckless injury.

Shorewood Drama is hosting a community forum at 7 p.m. Thursday in the studio theater in the performing arts building at Shorewood High School, 1701 East Capitol Drive, to give parents and community members an opportunity to discuss "Spring Awakening," the spring musical set to hit the stage in May.

The commission that oversees the North Shore Fire Department, which serves Bayside, Brown Deer, Fox Point, Glendale, River Hills, Shorewood and Whitefish Bay, could choose a new fire chief at a meeting set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday.

Sorry I haven???t been blogging much this month. My work and personal life occasionally intrude upon this hobby.

The library's board has scheduled a special board meeting for 6:45 p.m. Aug. 31. The board will meet in closed session to discuss proposals from architectural firms for a proposed expansion.

The Legislature's budget committee Thursday prepared to hold up roughly $63 million in state money for the state's troubled jobs agency over the next two years and pile new oversight on it, only shortly after lawmakers on a separate audit panel finished tallying up their bipartisan dismay at the shoddy financial controls at the Wisconsin Economic ... (more)

Republicans on the Legislature's budget committee intend to approve a measure Thursday that would bar utility ratepayers from having to bear any costs for a proposed streetcar in Milwaukee - a provision that would likely kill the project.

The Milwaukee River Hilton Inn and adjacent Anchorage Restaurant could be rezoned in the near future to accommodate future development.

MyCommunityNOW.com and five North Shore police departments are teaming up to present a new law enforcement blog that will provide residents with crime prevention tips, public safety information and more.

Preliminary results from a survey administered to residences throughout the Nicolet High School community indicate there is interest in studying consolidation with the three K-8 feeder districts.

Some state Republican Legislators want to toughen the laws for habitual drunk drivers and first-time drunk drivers if they cause an injury or killed someone, but the price tag for those laws could cost taxpayers up to $236 million, according to a story in the Wisconsin State Journal.

A Republican bill that would ensure repeat drunken drivers spend time behind bars generated surprisingly little opposition at public hearing today.

An Assembly committee has scheduled a hearing on a bill that would impose mandatory minimum sentences on drunken drivers.