Calumet County, WI

MADISON - The latest Drought Mionitor Report and Wisconsin Crop Progress Report tell the story: The state has a growing moisture deficit. The U.S. Drought Monitor map of Wisconsin, last issued on June 10, showed 82 percentof the state as "abnormally dry" and 34 percent experiencing "moderate drought." Manitowoc and...

The former head of the D-N-R’s sturgeon program reaches a plea deal with prosecutors on charges stemming from an investigation into the illegal processing of caviar. Ryan Koenigs is convicted in Winnebago County Court on one count of Resisting a Conservation Warden. Koenigs was accused of taking sturgeon eggs from spearers on the pretense of using them for research–but then giving them to processors to turn into caviar. He was ordered to pay a fine and will not spend any time in jail. Koenigs still has a similar case pending in Calumet County. His defense attorney says Koenigs has been placed on administrative leave from his job as a sturgeon biologist pending the results of an internal investigation by the D-N-R.

APPLETON - Outagamie and Calumet counties have the nation's highest percentages of residents who report drinking excessively, according to new county health rankings from the University of Wisconsin. The school's Population Health Institute releases the rankings each year, assessing the health of nearly every U.S. county based on a variety...

TOWNSHIP OF CALUMET, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A 5-month-old infant died Monday in Fond du Lac County, despite resuscitation efforts. The Fond du Lac County Sheriff’s Office says it was called to N10198 Gulig Road in the Township of Calumet shortly after 8:30 a.m. for a 5-month-old infant who was unresponsive and not breathing.

STOCKBRIDGE - On Thursday, May 27, the Calumet County Sheriff’s Office was asked to assist the Chilton Police Department by doing a welfare check in the 1200 block of Lake Street in the Village of Stockbridge. After deputies got there, they spoke with four adults who were living there, and...

One man is in custody and a number of illegal drugs discovered during a welfare check in the Village of Stockbridge. Calumet County Sheriff’s Deputies were dispatched to a residence on Wednesday in the 1200 block of Lake Street. Deputies spoke with four people living at that location. One of them admitted to having illegal narcotics and that more were inside the home. After obtaining a search warrant, deputies confiscated marijuana, methamphetamine, heroin, drug paraphernalia and a fire arm. A 33-year-old man was arrested and jailed on charges of maintaining a drug trafficking place, possession of THC, possession of drug paraphernalia, possession of a controlled substance and bail jumping. Charges against the three other individual have been forwarded to the Calumet County District Attorney.

CALUMET COUNTY (WLUK) -- In Northeast Wisconsin, campgrounds are filling up quickly. At Calumet County Park near Chilton, weekend sites are booked through September. The pink paper campsite reserved tag on the brown wooden post at the Calumet County Park Campground seems to say it all. "The park is completely...

DUNDAS, Wis. (WBAY) - A Calumet County business is warning people to watch out for fake bills after they were victims of fraud at the annual Testicle Festival. Rocky & Tara’s Nut Haus posted on Facebook that someone passed fake $100 bills at their business and Two of a Kind.

State and federal authorities are pitching in as investigators try to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed three buildings in the historic downtown of an Upper Peninsula village. Investigators in Calumet were treating it as a crime scene. The fire was reported late Friday and stretched into Saturday.

CALUMET COUNTY (WLUK) -- By many accounts Wisconsin farmers say spring planting is ahead of schedule. Crews are in the fields cutting the first crop of alfalfa, and a lot of the corn is already in the ground too. On a 60-acre field north of Sherwood, crews work as a...

A $231,000 grant will let Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley provide in-school mental health services in Calumet County. Executive Director Rosangela Berbert knows school-based counseling makes a difference. Berbert says the services will be provided to the Brillion, Chilton, Hilbert, New Holstein and Stockbridge school districts.

CALUMET COUNTY (WLUK) -- A coalition of five Calumet County school districts will begin to offer school-based mental health screening and counseling services this spring. "Yes there is a need for mental health counseling in all of the New Holstein school district." Tiffany Schuette is the elementary school counselor at the New Holstein School District.

CALUMET COUNTY, Wis. (WBAY) - Calumet County school districts team up with Samaritan Counseling Center of the Fox Valley to improve the children’s mental health. Brillion, Chilton, Hilbert, New Holstein and Stockbridge schools see power in numbers. And now, all five are working together to improve the mental health of the community.

Located in Calumet County, Chilton has plenty of things to do for families that love exploring and playing outdoors. This hidden gem is just about 45 minutes northwest of Appleton. If you have littles that need to run off some energy, Sherwood is the halfway point, we recommend stopping at Wanick Choute Park — you can also pack swimsuits for a cool-off in the splash pad.

Authorities are treating the fire site in Calumet, a village in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, as a crime scene. Wetlands that mitigate flooding in Northern Wisconsin are at risk under a federal rule change. The Aging and Disability Resource Center of Oneida County looks for volunteers for its Retired Senior Volunteer...