Dec. 2, 2025 5:45p
WGTD---Gateway Technical College’s public radio station—turns 50 this month. To celebrate, the station is holding a coffee-and-kringle open house Friday, December 12th.
Dec. 10, 2025 8:30
(WGTD)---A downtown tavern has landed on Racine's list of nuisance properties.
According to a news release from the city, Mahoffers on Main has racked up more than 50 police calls since it opened in July of this year.
Several of the incidents were categorized as serious and...
Dec. 10, 2025 8p
(WGTD)---Racine County has put out the word that funding has become tight in its 'Meals on Wheels' program.
It's estimating that dozens of new applicants for the program will wind up on a wait list next month because funding through the government's Older Americans Act hasn't kept...
Dec. 10, 2025 3:45p
(WGTD)---A state representative from Racine wants to hold the state’s feet to the fire on the issue of special education funding for public schools in Wisconsin.
State officials once promised districts that the costs of state-mandated special education programs would be covered by...
Dec. 9, 2025 4p
(WGTD)---A company that wants to build a natural gas-fired power plant in Somers will be holding an open house Thursday.
It’ll be held at Somers Village Hall with the first two-hour-long session beginning at 1:30 and the second at 5:30.
The plant—proposed for a site just west of the...
Dec. 4, 2025 7:30p
(WGTD)---A major north side Kenosha intersection that's been partially closed for months because of road construction will reopen even though the project isn't done.
The early onset of winter weather forced construction crews at the intersection of Washington Rd. and 30th Ave. to...
Dec. 3, 2025 8p
(WGTD)---A search warrant sheds some light on the circumstances surrounding the deaths of three children in the townhome fire in Kenosha on Thanksgiving night.
The warrant was obtained to allow authorities to examine Joshua Kannin’s phone.
Kannin is the father of the three children...
Dec. 3, 2025 7:30p
(WGTD)---A Racine County Sheriff's deputy battled thick smoke to rescue a four-year-old child in a Village of Raymond house fire Monday afternoon. While the child was rescued, a 38-year-old woman from Milwaukee--Jenna Zuehlke--died.
According to a release from the sheriff's office...
Dec. 2, 2025 7p
(WPR)---A fixture of Wisconsin radio for nearly six decades, Larry Meiller has announced that he will retire from his Wisconsin Public Radio (WPR) program at the end of June 2026. Meiller has been a daily presence on WPR since 1967 and his call-in talk show is among the most listened...
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