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The sturgeon spearing season on the upriver lakes is over. DNR fisheries biologist Ryan Koenigs says they reached the cap for adult females Tuesday afternoon. Spearers got nearly 300 fish from the upriver lakes. The season remains open on Lake Winnebago, where 229 sturgeon have been registered so far. Koenigs says they expect the season […] Source: WRN.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

>>Walker Meets With President Trump On Infrastructure Plan (Washington, DC)  —  Wisconsin’s Scott Walker was one of a few Republican governors meeting with President Trump at the White House Monday.  They were talking about the president’s plan to leverage 200-billion dollars in federal funding to produce one-and-a-half-trillion for the nation’s infrastructure needs.  Walker calls plans for the one-point-six-billion dollar Interstate 94 project a good example of cooperation between federal, state and local governments.  Money for that work is already in the Wisconsin state budget and Walker thinks it can be fully funded through the help from the federal government.   >>Wisconsin Assembly Votes Tuesday On Free Tuition For Foster Children

Police are investigating the death of a 44-year-old man as a possible accidental prescription drug overdose, Detective Jennifer Holz said Tuesday.  Source: WAOW.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Assembly lawmakers have introduced a plan to close the Lincoln Hills youth prison by 2020 and open new facilities around the state. Source: LacrosseTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]

Wisconsin's needs to do a broad but speedy rewrite of its complicated liquor laws and then step up enforcement of them, a top GOP senator said.        Source: WisconsinRapidsDailyTribune.com News At Other State Sites: [wp-rss-aggregator source=”87908,87904,713,696,676″]