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Racine County Board Committee Kills Waterford Racism Resolution

June 12, 2025 10:20a

(WGTD)---A Racine County Board committee voted this week to table a resolution that condemned the racist actions of some people at a track meet last month at Waterford High School. 

A series of racial incidents led to one of the participating schools—Milwaukee’s Rufus King—to...

Evers Highlights the Importance of Tourism in a Kenosha Visit

June 11, 2025 4:15p

(WGTD)---Gov. Evers paid a visit to Kenosha Wednesday for the dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of tourism to the state’s economy and highlighting a local tourist attraction.

Evers toured the mini-maritime museum that’s located in the two-story Southport Lighthouse Keeper...

GTC Board Appoints an Interim President

June 11, 2025 12:30p

(WGTD)---A man who served as an administrator at a community college in Arizona has been selected to lead Gateway Technical College as an interim president for a year. 

Morgan Phillips will fill in while the school begins a process to find a permanent replacement for Ritu Raju...

Planting Party a Success

June 7, 2025 9p

(WGTD)---What could be described as a community-wide planting party resulted in a new "pollinator patch" in Kenosha's Washington Park Saturday. 

With the help of some $50,000 worth of grants from several sources, volunteers recruited by the Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Project...

A U.S. Army Major General Talks About Diversity at Pritzker

June 7, 2025 7:15p

(WGTD)---An Army officer whose trailblazing past as the first African-American woman to become a U.S. Army Major General was erased from Defense Department websites by the Trump administration spoke last week at the Pritzker Museum and Library in Somers. 

Marcia Anderson, a Beloit...

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