July 6, 2025 8:30p
(WGTD)---Racine Unified might expand its solar footprint.
Four schools that are currently part of the 2020 facilities expansion referendum would be in line for solar installations under a proposal to be discussed by the school board Monday night. They are Case, Goodland Montessori...
July 6, 2025 4:15p
(WGTD)---The plan commissions in Kenosha and Pleasant Prairie are expected to review a flurry of potential new developments this week.
Topping the list for many might be a Cooper's Hawk Winery and Restaurant that's expected to be built on a vacant parcel on Highway 50 just west of...
July 2, 2025 3:30p
(WGTD)---School districts in Wisconsin continue to assess the impact of state and federal budget decisions.
In Racine Unified, the tentative state budget will give the district in each of the next two years an extra $7 million or so in special education funding from the state. But...
July 1, 2025 10:45p
(WGTD)---A redevelopment project in Racine's uptown neighborhood appears to be dead for now following the failure of the city council to override a mayoral veto Tuesday night.
Mayor Cory Mason had nixed the granting of a beer license to the owner of a long-vacant gas station at...
July 1, 2025 6:30a
(WPR)---A tentative bipartisan deal between Gov. Tony Evers and Republican leaders in the state Legislature calls for billions in new spending on public schools, child care and state universities, along with income tax cuts worth more than $1 billion.
Evers announced the agreement...
June 30, 2025 5p
(WGTD)---Racine Mayor Corey Mason has vetoed a couple of measures that were unanimously approved two weeks ago by the city council. The action sets up a veto override attempt at Tuesday night's regularly-scheduled meeting of the council.
At issue is a proposal to rehab a long-vacant...
June 30, 2025 2:45p
(WGTD)---Five teenagers were arrested for allegedly starting a fire Sunday evening that caused heavy damage to a vacant industrial building on Kenosha's north side.
According to a news release from the police department, witnesses heard what sounded like fireworks being shot off...
June 29, 2025 6:45p
(WGTD)---A man responsible for putting hundreds of low-income Racine area residents to work in family supporting jobs was honored last week.
Ola Baiyewu founded the First Choice Pre-Apprenticeship Program in 2006. Since then, over 1,500 people have gone through the six-week...
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