As Rock County awaits an answer from FEMA on whether it will land federal disaster aid after April flash floods damaged parts of county roads,…
JANESVILLE —The city council approved advertising the city manager position at a pay range of $240,000 to $275,000 which is around the same ra…
Milton School District moves toward the 2026-2027 school year with some new faces at the helm of its elementary and middle schools. The change…
JANESVILLE — After hearing feedback from numerous residents — and a 45-minute back-and-forth conversation between council members — the Janesv…
California developer Panattoni unveiled conceptual plans Monday for a 2-million-square-foot data center project in the Towns of Beloit and Tur…
Rock County is working through a handful of unresolved projects at its new jail after workers capped off one emergency fix — a roof leak that …
A former Janesville teacher accused of entering the boys locker room at the Woodman's Sports & Convention Center while out on bond on unre…
Rock County Neighbors for Responsible Development has grown out of several social media-based anti-data-center groups. It has coalesced into a…
Janesville parents have created "Save Washington School," an advocacy group and now a 750-member Facebook page of the same name. The group for…
JANESVILLE - A Janesville man faces a felony operating while intoxicated (OWI) charge involving injury following a two-vehicle crash in the To…
JANESVILLE – A Beloit man accused of punching and threatening a woman was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison.
Janesville’s main chamber of commerce, Forward Janesville, is asking the Janesville City Council to hit pause on developer Viridian Partners’ …
JANESVILLE — A man already in jail for allegedly running over a Black woman in a Beloit convenience store parking lot was charged with a hate …
The city council could take action Monday night on a recruitment process, job description materials, and pay as the city is set to launch a ca…
A new nonprofit group named Rock County Neighbors for Responsible Development is pressing Rock County's municipal governments to enact 18-mont…
JANESVILLE — City officials unveiled a draft rewrite of Janesville’s zoning ordinance during a public open house Thursday, outlining proposed …
Madison Elementary Principal Stephanie Filter has retired, the Janesville School District said in a press release late Thursday afternoon. Fil…
Sophie Valley of Orfordville has been competing in rodeo since she was eight years old. She finally has the opportunity to compete on the nati…
JANESVILLE — The flood-damaged Washington Elementary School has the Janesville School District under pressure as it remains set later this yea…
A former Janesville teacher already under criminal charges of possessing child pornography and sharing nude photos of another adult, is in tro…
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City of Janesville staff want the city council to approve another extension of a non-binding agreement with Viridian Partners as negotiations …
A group calling itself Rock County Neighbors for Responsible Development is hosting a forum to gather public comment on data centers Thursday …
The fate of Washington Elementary School remains murky. The Janesville School Board has moved to hold off until July deciding whether to perma…
The 69ÂÜÀò's new intern-journalist, Tia Bethke, is a junior at Northwestern University, where she studies journalism at the Medill School of …
EDGERTON — The fourth-annual poker run and raffle fundraiser benefiting homeless veterans in Edgerton returns June 27. Organizers say they hop…
Two corridors in the Janesville area damaged by washouts from the April 17 flash floods are expected to be completed by June 27, the Wisconsin…
Due to recent rainfall, the start of the Jefferson Street Road project has been postponed and is now scheduled to begin on Friday, June 19. Ph…
JANESVILLE — The city and the GM/JATCO Redevelopment Advisory Board are hosting a “community visioning†workshop on June 24 that will allow re…
BELOIT - The California company looking at building a "data center campus" in the Town of Turtle and Town of Beloit plans to hold a "Lunch and…
Milton Youth Football could reach a development and use agreement this week on the long-awaited field complex at 240 N. Janesville St. The thr…
As Janesville Morning Rotary Club's annual Pie Ride rolls into its 26th year Saturday at Janesville's town square, its main tenets have remain…
Friday fish fries and Old Fashioneds have long been staples of Wisconsin culture, but rising food costs are forcing some local restaurants to …
The sheriff’s officer says Jeffrey Becker, 52, of Janesville, crashed his motorcycle about 6 p.m. Saturday after he flew through a stop sign a…
On Thursday, the City of Janesville hosts an open house that will allow residents to ask questions and register input on the first full rewrit…
The state's largest healthcare union says that nurses in its union hope to raise standards and conditions for all nurses across Wisconsin, but…
Ah, the NeeDoh: A line of polyurethane covered, pliable toys with a satisfying squish that feels a bit like pressing on frozen molasses. What …
Community Action Inc. 's AWARE in Evansville program is partnering with local banks, businesses, community organizations and churches to colle…
JANESVILLE — A Janesville man was arrested after he allegedly made terroristic threats during a series of 911 phone calls and threatened to “b…
An Old Fashioned out on the sidewalk? Could be coming soon to downtown Janesville, depending on the day's special, and who participates in Jan…
As data center proposals multiply across Rock County and statewide, local data center opponents are increasingly banding together to form de f…
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The Rock County Pork Producers organization has moved its annual Pork Fest pork chop cook-off on June 17 from the Rock County 4-H Fairgrounds …
The Wisconsin State Patrol says traffic on Interstate 90/39 in Janesville got backed up hours Thursday after a truck hauling "animal guts" hit…
Superintendent Mark Holzman said each student from Washington school reassigned to Madison or Adams elementary school next year will get to ea…
After almost an hour of public comment and nearly 30 minutes of board discussion, Turtle town supervisors decided to hold off for a month deci…
A political debate at about 1 a.m. June 4 at the downtown Janesville Transit bus terminal turned violent to the point one man in the fight all…
JANESVILLE — With Mt. Zion Avenue closed between N. Harmony Drive and Jefferson School Drive in Janesville Thursday, the project engineer says…
JANESVILLE — Residents near the location of a proposed Kwik Trip on Janesville’s northeast side voiced concern — and at times, opposition — at…
BELOIT — Seven Leron White, 19, of Beloit, is accused of repeat second-degree recklessly endangering safety after allegedly crashing his SUV i…
 The Janesville Visitors & Convention Bureau released new tourism data for 2025 that shows continued growth in Janesville’s visitor econom…
As Invenergy breaks ground on the 150-megawatt Dawn Harvest solar project across hundreds of acres east of Janesville, town officials in Harmo…
The 12 annual event was cast off from piers at the Floating Toy in Newville whichprovided pontoon boats free of charge for young anglers accom…
The town of Turtle board will discuss and could take action on a “cost reimbursement agreement" with Panattoni Development, Inc over a potenti…
After nine inches of rain caused significant flood damage to Washington Elementary School in April, the Janesville School District says it now…
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation hopes repairs on Highway 14 will be wrapped up by the end of June, the department said Monday.
The Wisconsin Department of Transportation intends to launch work to repair a blocked storm drain and blown-out hillside along Interstate 90/3…
BELOIT — The Border Brouhaha Celebrity Softball Game returns to ABC Supply Stadium on Saturday, July 19, bringing together Green Bay Packers l…
Thirteen teams competed. for a trophy, and helped raise money for Beloit Regional Hospice Sunday during the Sixth Annual Pulling for Hospice event.
JANESVILLE — When it rains, it pours. That’s unfortunately been far too literal in Rock County this spring, with floods affecting areas rangin…
JANESVILLE — Rotary Botanical Gardens is excited to announce a new summer collaboration with The Bodacious Brew, a local Janesville coffee caf…
Janesville School District is hosting a parents meeting at 6 p.m. Wednesday at Parker High School for families of the 400 students at Washingt…
 The City of Janesville is asking residents to sound off on the future of the city's aging Rockport pool at a planned public engagement forum …
According to a City of Janesville public notice, Kwik Trip is hosting an upcoming, neighborhood meeting for a new Kwik Trip gas station-conven…
Wisconsin Department of Transportation officials say flooding on Janesville's Ruger Avenue at the I-39/90 overpass that took place overnight i…
A Fond du Lac woman died May 28 after a propane gas explosion in a mobile home at the Rock River Leisure Estates in rural Edgerton, authorities say.
Janesville police say they've located the two missing teens who ran away on a bus bound for Chicago on May 28. Authorities say the two 16-year…
JANESVILLE — Christopher Redmond of Janesville was arrested Thursday after Janesville Police Department officers, detectives and K9 Maui searc…
The Janesville School District has not given specific details, but the district says its principal at Madison Elementary School, Stephanie Fil…
JANESVILLE — The April 17 flooding has closed Washington Elementary School for the 2026-27 school year, the Janesville District announced Thur…
At a rally in downtown Janesville, League of Women Voters of Wisconsin Executive Director Debra Cronmiller let loose a quip that lays out her …
JANESVILLE — On May 28, 17-year-old Max Olson was reappointed to Rock County’s Youth in Governance Committee. The day after, he saw Facebook p…
Janesville police Lt. Jennifer Seeger said Janesville police detectives are now working with Chicago police to try to locate Pamela Torres-Cas…
Neighborhood watchdog group, SNOW Janesville says new rules embedded in the 300-page, proposed zoning code reboot appear structured in a way t…
TOWN OF TURTLE - In one respect, the more than two-year official debate on what to do with the historic Lathers Road Bridge came to an end Tue…
WHITEWATER — The Whitewater Federation of Women’s Clubs hopes for a boost in membership following a Centennial Celebration for The Bassett Hou…
WHITEWATER — The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will use nearly a quarter-million dollars to develop an emergency operations outpost for n…
Rock County and a third-party medical contractor face a federal civil rights and wrongful death lawsuit over a Rock County jail inmate whose a…
MILTON — The City of Milton has established a committee that will be tasked with negotiating terms on intergovernmental agreements, or IGAs, w…
A Beloit man faces charges of possessing a machine gun after police say he shot a modified Glock pistol through the floor of a vehicle during …
The Rock County Sheriff's Office is launching a new phone app, the Sheriff App, as early as this fall. It will alert residents to emergencies,…
Rock County Board Supervisor Lori Pennycook of Janesville has died, according to a death notice submitted to The 69ÂÜÀò.