County board chairman faces challenge

Marathon County supervisors made several last-minute changes to the county’s updated comprehensive plan last week, many of which centered around what kind of energy the county hopes to use in the future as the demand for electricity increases to feed data centers and artificial intelligence. Out of the 11 amendments considered by the board, five of them were directed at either regulating wind...

Work got underway earlier this week on a Highway 29 resurfacing project stretching from Owen to Abbotsford that is scheduled to last until October. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation announced last week that Gov. Tony Evers signed a $17.37 million contract with prime contractor Rock Road Cos., Inc. of Janesville for a resurfacing project in Clark County on STH 29 from CTH D in Owen east...