A Janesville woman was arrested for a suspected fifth OWI early Monday morning.
Michael Harper hopes to open a barbershop in Janesville sometime in September.
As Janesville debates where it could build a multimillion-dollar ice arena and sports complex, supporters of the project say there should be no doubt about the need.
Rep. Bryan Steil, R-1st District, was part of a congressional delegation to Israel last week, the same week that two other members of the House were denied entry to the Middle Eastern country.
Fire crews from several counties were called for a garage fire in the town of Turtle.
Local law-enforcement leaders say they're more prepared than ever before for mass shootings, but they need their communities to back them up.
Newly released police reports provide more details about a murder-suicide in Darien, which was the third Walworth County domestic violence killing in seven months.
After two serious crashes this month, Whitewater officials want the state to add turn signals at Highway 12 and Walworth Avenue sooner than June 2020. They plan to share their urgency in a meeting Tuesday.
Earlier this summer, Yuri Rashkin stood in the stairway of the Moscow apartment building where he lived as a boy.
Police and residents say Janesville's Fourth Ward is the quietest and cleanest they've seen in years.
Whitewater Middle School has hired a new principal who most recently worked in the Delavan-Darien School District.
A Lake Geneva woman is charged with driving while intoxicated and hitting a motorcycle driver who landed in her convertible.
Two local state legislators from opposite sides of the political aisle are working together to make health services delivered by phone or computer more accessible to Medicaid recipients.
The House of Mercy Homeless Center has received the 2019 Dick Davidson NOVA Award from the American Hospital Association.
Asset Recovery Solutions is moving from Whitewater to Janesville, a company official said in an email Friday.
A man found a military explosive device when he was cleaning his mother’s Janesville attic on Friday and brought it to the Rock County Sheriff’s Office parking lot, according to a sheriff’s news release.
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A man convicted of kidnapping in 2001 will be relocated to Edgerton on Monday, the Rock County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday.
A Janesville boy was taken to a hospital after a dog bit his genitals at about midnight Friday.
A Janesville man who police said was seen switching license plates on a vehicle was later arrested on suspicion of retail theft Thursday evening, according to the Janesville Police Department.
Janesville’s Opportunity Internship program began earlier this year to help homeless people or others who are struggling obtain jobs and build resumes.
A former Delavan man pleaded guilty to cocaine charges in an agreement he reached in Walworth County Court on Thursday.
The Rock County Human Services Department's Crisis Intervention Unit is crafting a plan for corrective action in the wake of an investigation into the county's handling of a suicidal teenager.
A Beloit man was sentenced to 15 years in prison Thursday, more than 1,500 days after he was charged in the June 2015 stabbing death of his roommate.
A Beloit woman has been sentenced to 21 months in federal prison for filing 374 false tax returns between 2013 and 2016, the state Department of Justice announced Thursday.
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West State Street will be closed for resurfacing between Center Avenue and South Oakhill Avenue from Aug. 22 to 26.
Volunteers are invited to help with a Rock River Clean Sweep from 8 to 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, in Monterey Park, 501 Rockport Road, Janesville.
Pickup dates for the Forthright Ministries peach and pear sale have been changed to Aug. 30 and 31.
Rock County and outgoing program provider CESA 2 both criticized each other for how they handled contract negotiations for the Birth to 3 Program. The messy split ends a 39-year partnership.
A comparison of aerial photos of downtown Whitewater shows the differences between 1930 and today.
The Humane Society of Southern Wisconsin is hosting a "Clear the Shelter" event this weekend.
Jeremy J. Ryan, who ran for the Republican nomination in the 1st Congressional District in 2018, has entered into a plea agreement in a bizarre federal criminal case.
A man suspected of being involved in a 2014 hit-and-run crash that injured two people has been extradited to Rock County after he was arrested in New York state on unrelated charges, Beloit police said.
An Elkhorn man charged with seventh-offense intoxicated driving admitted he had too much to drink before driving in the Kettle Moraine State Forest, according to a criminal complaint.
The Rock County Historical Society will host its fourth annual farm-to-table meal this September, according to a news release.
Former Janesville teacher and health care consultant Quint Studer is being recognized as a top national leader for his work in urban renewal and community revitalization.
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Most Rock County law enforcement agencies will add patrols starting Friday in the annual Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over campaign.
The Janesville School Board has approved hiring Dan McCrea as the school district's new chief financial officer, the district announced.
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All northbound lanes of Interstate 90/39 are now open.
The Milton Redhawks girls swim team was the first to test out the renovated pool, which features a new ventilation system, floors and walls.
The Janesville School Board got an update on the district's five-year goals at a workshop Tuesday.
About 270 residents at the Rock-Koshkonong Lake District Board's annual meeting Saturday elected newcomer Jim Jelinek and write-in candidate Mark Meyer to three-year terms on the board.
A town of Beloit man might have his crimes wiped from state court records, but much depends on a change in state law.
Two 14-year-olds were arrested Tuesday afternoon on Janesville's near west side in an incident that led the YMCA to lock down its building.
A Rockford, Illinois, man drunkenly sped away from police while he had a loaded gun on Sunday, according to a criminal complaint filed in Walworth County Court on Tuesday.
A Whitewater woman officially pleaded guilty Monday to less-serious drug charges, avoiding a reckless homicide charge in connection with a Whitewater man’s 2017 drug overdose death.
