Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, left, and Minister of Finance and National Revenue, Francois-Philippe Champagne, make their way to the House of Commons before the tabling of the spring economic update, on Parliament Hill, in Ottawa, Ontario, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Justin Tang/The Canadian Press via AP)
JANESVILLE – The general public was asked Sunday to stay away from the southside of Janesville after a tornado -- later confirmed as an EF-2 -- touched down there about 8 p.m. Saturday night.
JANESVILLE — Jim Ponkauskas knew, at age 5, sitting in a fire truck on a call with his dad, that fire service was what he wanted to do with his life.
JANESVILLE — It might never reach a city council hearing. Even as it was being introduced, a proposal to allow Janesville streets to be named after living people had begun to draw public criticism, a council member who authored it says.
As a semi-retired health care lobbyist, one-time Janesville City Council member and sometimes local radio talk show personality, Richard Gruber says he’d never encountered raw political partisanship by local public office seekers like he saw in the run-up to last April's election.
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If a county board resolution passes, about a half-dozen Rock Haven employees laid off after they declined the COVID-19 vaccine would be allowed to return to their jobs at the county-run nursing home, a Rock County official said.
Two days into a statewide public health emergency in response to the national COVID-19 outbreak, Rock County Health Officials are enacting internal health policies and cautioning communities against large-scale events.
