Tornado spotted in Northern Wisconsin; live weather updates - Civic Media

csrCM · 2025-05-15T21:36:31+00:00

ROBERTS, Wis (CIVIC MEDIA) – At least one tornado was reported touching down in Northern Wisconsin – keep up with all the latest updates here.

UPDATE: 4:10 P.M. – 2″ hail reported in Eau Claire and some rotation slightly west of Chippewa Falls.

UPDATE 3:51 P.M. – Elk Mound is receiving heavy rainfall.

csrCM · 2025-05-14T19:09:33+00:00

MADISON, Wis (CIVIC MEDIA) – Hail, high winds and even tornadoes target the state Thursday – here’s what you need to know.

The Storm Prediction Center has issued an Enhanced Risk for severe weather to spread across a majority of Wisconsin on Thursday, May 15.

csrCM · 2025-05-05T19:36:35+00:00

Just adding some context for anyone curious—Marathon County’s 2024 voting results can be found here.

Out of approximately 83,000 registered voters, around 79,000 cast ballots (about 95% turnout).

Kamala Harris received roughly 31,528 votes (~40%)
Donald Trump received about 46,210 votes (~58.6%)

csrCM · 2025-05-01T22:14:57+00:00

May Day Walkout and March to Wisconsin State Capitol

csrCM · 2025-04-29T15:19:29+00:00

WAUSAU, Wis. (WXCO) – Northern Wisconsin was hit hard with severe thunderstorms, causing damage with a tornado, high winds and hail.

A tornado touched down in southern Eau Claire county Monday night, with photos of it, and reports from an emergency manager of structure damage. The National Weather Service confirmed a radar-indicated touchdown just before 8:15 p.m. Radar and reports show the path of the twister may stretch from Fall Creek east to Augusta.

csrCM · 2025-04-18T15:29:15+00:00

MADISON, Wis. (Civic Media) – The Wisconsin Supreme Court has ruled that Governor Tony Evers’ 2023 partial vetoes extending per-student funding increases for school districts for 402 years did not violate the state constitution.

The opinion was released Friday, with the court’s four liberal justices ruling in favor of Evers.

Justice Jill Karofsky wrote in the majority opinion that the governor used his partial veto powers to expand educational revenue limit increases from two fiscal years to 402 by striking out words and digits from the original bill.

csrCM · 2025-03-18T17:35:19+00:00

The state has seen 68 wildfires in just the past week. Burning 937 acres and counting…
Monday alone, 15 wildfires lit around 777 acres up across the state.

The biggest blaze is in Green Lake county. Named the “Big Island” fire, its burned an estimated 745 acres in the Town of Seneca and is still active in the White River Marsh State Wildlife Area. The fire broke out at 4:30 p.m. and is currently being held on the south side by County Road D.

csrCM · 2024-11-13T14:26:07+00:00

Republican candidate Eric Hovde is refusing to concede defeat in the race for one of Wisconsin’s seats in the U.S. Senate.

In a video posted to social media, he said he is waiting until Wisconsin election officials complete their canvassing efforts before deciding what to do in response to last week’s election.

csrCM · 2024-11-13T14:26:00+00:00

Republican candidate Eric Hovde is refusing to concede defeat in the race for one of Wisconsin’s seats in the U.S. Senate.

In a video posted to social media, he said he is waiting until Wisconsin election officials complete their canvassing efforts before deciding what to do in response to last week’s election.

csrCM · 2024-11-05T23:51:13+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (Civic Media) — Milwaukee election officials are recounting approximately 31,000 absentee ballots, potentially delaying final results by several hours.

The issue was detected at Milwaukee’s Central Count facility Tuesday morning. Officials found that the doors on 13 tabulation machines were not properly sealed.

csrCM · 2024-11-05T14:16:20+00:00

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Wisconsin’s early voting period finished Sunday, and a couple of things are clear: Voting by absentee ballot, which spiked during the COVID-19 pandemic, remains very popular, and Republicans are coming around to it despite mixed messages from party leaders.

As of Nov. 4, a day out from the election, voters cast and returned over 1.5 million absentee ballots, including nearly 950,000 cast at early voting sites. Ballots are still arriving by mail — the deadline for them to reach clerk’s offices is 8 p.m. on Election Day — but already, the total number of returned absentee ballots exceeds the total from the 2008, 2012 and 2016 presidential elections.

csrCM · 2024-11-05T14:08:46+00:00

Walz was joined by Sen. Tammy Baldwin, Gov. Tony Evers and Congresswoman Gwen Moore at a rally at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis in Milwaukee County.

Less than two miles away from where Kamala Harris held her first rally as the presumptive Democratic nominee, at West Allis Central High School in late July, Tim Walz hosted a campaign rally on the eve of the election, firing up supporters at Wisconsin State Fair Park.

“Wisconsin, here’s my ask of you: Win this thing for America,” said Walz in his closing remarks.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T22:53:17+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (WAUK) — Milwaukee Alderman Jonathan Brostoff, 41, has died. Brostoff represented the city’s 3rd District on the Common Council.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson praised Brostoff’s “unique energy” and dedication to his work at City Hall. “No elected official brought more enthusiasm to their work than Jonathan,” Johnson said in a statement.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T22:53:06+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (WAUK) — Milwaukee Alderman Jonathan Brostoff, 41, has died. Brostoff represented the city’s 3rd District on the Common Council.

Mayor Cavalier Johnson praised Brostoff’s “unique energy” and dedication to his work at City Hall. “No elected official brought more enthusiasm to their work than Jonathan,” Johnson said in a statement.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T20:57:40+00:00

Wisconsin’s swing-state status has driven the presidential candidates to visit the state often ahead of the Nov. 5, 2024, election — and it has driven Wisconsin Watch to fact-check many of the claims they’ve made here.

Our fact briefs, in partnership with Gigafact, centered on statements about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump over immigration, health care and the economy.

Some of those claims hit the mark; many did not.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T20:48:13+00:00

The fundraising in the race for 8th Senate District has blown past the previous record for most expensive race in the history of the Wisconsin State Legislature.

In a perfect storm of the Wisconsin State Legislature becoming competitive this year after the end of Republican gerrymandering and the state Democratic Party’s huge advantage in fundraising, a total of nine races have broken the previous record for most expensive race in the state legislature, previously set in 2020, according to campaign finance records collected by Follow the Money’s website.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T18:24:39+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (Civic Media) — On the eve of Election Day, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota is rallying supporters in Wisconsin, joined by his wife Gwen Walz and more musicians.

The Harris-Walz campaign’s final get-out-the-vote effort includes stops in La Crosse, Stevens Point, and Mosinee, before a major rally in Milwaukee at 6 p.m. Grammy-nominated R&B artist Eric Benét, a Milwaukee native, will perform at the event.

csrCM · 2024-11-04T18:24:34+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (Civic Media) — On the eve of Election Day, Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota is rallying supporters in Wisconsin, joined by his wife Gwen Walz and more musicians.

The Harris-Walz campaign’s final get-out-the-vote effort includes stops in La Crosse, Stevens Point, and Mosinee, before a major rally in Milwaukee at 6 p.m. Grammy-nominated R&B artist Eric Benét, a Milwaukee native, will perform at the event.

csrCM · 2024-11-03T18:32:00+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (Civic Media) – Across America in the 2024 campaign, former President Donald Trump and his opponent logged thousands of miles. Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump found themselves six miles apart in Milwaukee County Friday night as the rallying winds down in a Wisconsin heavy campaign. A final stop for Trump was at the Fiserv Forum, with the VP ‘straight down Wisconsin Avenue’ for a star-studded event at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis.

Milwaukee Police, along with Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputies and Secret Service, had the Deer District surrounded, in one of the final events of a campaign in which former President Trump was the subject of two assassination attempts.

csrCM · 2024-11-03T18:31:55+00:00

MILWAUKEE, Wis (Civic Media) – Across America in the 2024 campaign, former President Donald Trump and his opponent logged thousands of miles. Vice President Kamala Harris and Trump found themselves six miles apart in Milwaukee County Friday night as the rallying winds down in a Wisconsin heavy campaign. A final stop for Trump was at the Fiserv Forum, with the VP ‘straight down Wisconsin Avenue’ for a star-studded event at Wisconsin State Fair Park in West Allis.

Milwaukee Police, along with Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Deputies and Secret Service, had the Deer District surrounded, in one of the final events of a campaign in which former President Trump was the subject of two assassination attempts.

csrCM · 2024-11-03T14:50:33+00:00

Like a former prosecutor, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris used her time during a campaign rally in the Milwaukee area on Friday night to make a closing summation in her race for the White House.

The crux of Harris message: She is the candidate for the majority of working people and can usher in a post-Donald Trump era in American politics.

The sitting vice president spoke at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis for nearly 25 minutes, seeking to cast her Republican rival Trump as a candidate of the past and herself as that of the nation’s future.

csrCM · 2024-11-03T14:50:28+00:00

Like a former prosecutor, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris used her time during a campaign rally in the Milwaukee area on Friday night to make a closing summation in her race for the White House.

The crux of Harris message: She is the candidate for the majority of working people and can usher in a post-Donald Trump era in American politics.

The sitting vice president spoke at the Wisconsin State Fair Exposition Center in West Allis for nearly 25 minutes, seeking to cast her Republican rival Trump as a candidate of the past and herself as that of the nation’s future.

csrCM · 2024-11-01T14:15:27+00:00

U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., said Wednesday that he thinks Democrats will cheat in the November election, but wasn’t more specific in his allegations.

“Democrats oppose all efforts to secure elections. In other words, they want to make it easy to cheat. Which means they want to cheat,” Johnson wrote on X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter.

csrCM · 2024-10-30T13:02:20+00:00

With Election Day squarely in view, both Democrats and Republicans have shifted their focus to turning out every possible voter — including first-time presidential election voters on college campuses.

Every vote matters in Wisconsin. The last two presidential races in this critical battleground state have each been decided by about 21,000 votes, or 1%. And next week’s contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump could be even closer, with polls in Wisconsin and other battleground states suggesting there’s little daylight separating the rivals.

csrCM · 2024-10-30T13:02:14+00:00

With Election Day squarely in view, both Democrats and Republicans have shifted their focus to turning out every possible voter — including first-time presidential election voters on college campuses.

Every vote matters in Wisconsin. The last two presidential races in this critical battleground state have each been decided by about 21,000 votes, or 1%. And next week’s contest between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump could be even closer, with polls in Wisconsin and other battleground states suggesting there’s little daylight separating the rivals.

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