covid-19

Marathon County Supervisors spent about 25 minutes discussing a proposed resolution against further COVID-19 related mandates

Health officials in Oneida County say they’re seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases.The county health department says they are also seeing an increase statewide in surveillance systems such as wastewater.

A state audit faults the Wisconsin Department of Health Services for how it awarded grants and ventilators to health care providers during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The rate at which young adults in Wisconsin are dying is rising while older adults are seeing their death rates go down.Those are some of the major take-a-ways from recently released data by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention.The Wisconsin Policy Forum compared the rate of death for 18 ages groups between the years 2001 and 2021.

Wisconsin residents can order another round of free at-home COVID tests.All households can now place an order for a new test kit every month.

Several seasonal illnesses are circulating Northwoods communities and are expected to get worse in the coming weeks.Local health officials are urging people to take precautions and do your part to stop the spread of these illnesses.

Test scores for Wisconsin grade school students show declines since the coronavirus pandemic and persistent gaps, though there were signs of progress in the last school year.

Wisconsin’s employment rebounded quickly after a huge drop at the beginning of the pandemic, but that recovery hasn’t been even.

A Wisconsin judge has ruled against the state prison system, saying its COVID-19 visitor policy that barred Catholic clergy from meeting with inmates for more than a year violated state law and the state constitution’s guarantee of religious freedom.

Figures from UW Health Kids shows a nearly 200% increase in the number of cases over the last several years.