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Mark Riley, who has served the Mequon Police Department since 1999, was sworn in as the city’s next police chief.

Ozaukee County Finance Director Jay McMahon is confident the 2024 county sales tax revenue will exceed predictions for the year and the total from 2023.

Port Washington resident Anastasia Poull was crowned the 2025 Ozaukee County Fairest of the Fair at a Gala and Live Auction at the Ozaukee Pavilion on Jan. 11. The evening celebrated the tradition of the Ozaukee County Fair while raising funds for ...

It is the end of an era for the Cedarburg football program as longtime head coach Brian Leair has announced his retirement from the program.

This week's Pet of the Week is 8-month-old pup Scrooge, who is looking for a loving home and available for adoption at the Ozaukee Campus - Wisconsin Humane Society.

A Grafton couple have been charged with maintaining a drug house after police found several syringes, baggies containing methamphetamine, milliliters of carfentanil and other related paraphernalia.

National Catholic Schools Week is the annual celebration of Catholic education in the U.S. It runs from the last Sunday in January through the following Saturday.

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Homestead earned the statement win the team was looking for Tuesday with a 77-76 victory over Hartford, which was vindication for setting up a challenging nonconference slate that caused some bumps along the way as the Highlanders took on a number ...

Another discount retail chain is hoping to step into the space that Big Lots once planned to occupy in Grafton.

Former Cedarburg Mayor E. Stephan Fischer is recognized by many as the man who preserved Cedarburg’s downtown, freezing many of its buildings and their vintage charm in time. But the Cedarburg Art Museum is showing another side to the former mayor ...

Winter grass fires, soggy hiking trails and proverbial crickets in the shovels and salt aisles of hardware stores. It was definitely a dry January, though not the kind where one takes a break from alcohol for the first month of the year.

Improvements to Zedler Lane, Granville Road and Lake Shore Drive may all be in play in the city of Mequon’s 2025 Road Program, which was outlined during last month’s Public Works meeting.

After more than 20 years in business, YogaOne Studio celebrated its move into a new space recently. The studio can now be found at W57N14280 Doerr Way, Suite 105, in Cedarburg.

Eight people have thrown their hat into the ring for the Cedarburg School Board race this year. The field of eight will be cut to six during the Feb. 18 primary, and the top three votegetters during the Apr. 1 general election will earn seats on the board.

There was a rivalry, no shortage of drama and even a championship belt on the line Wednesday as Grafton visited Cedarburg for their annual North Shore Conference wrestling dual meet.

Gerald Bettridge, a 74-year-old man from Mequon, was charged in the Washington County Circuit Court with a felony and two misdemeanors on Jan. 24 for allegedly making terroristic threats to the Germantown-based business Enercon.

Retail businesses come and go, but the inventory of funeral homes in Ozaukee County has remained virtually unchanged in Ozaukee County for decades, with the exception of the closure of the Poole Family Funeral Home in Port Washington in 2023.

The city of Mequon has transitioned from its current domain to the new , a more secure .GOV domain to comply with the DOTGOV Online Trust in Government Act of 2020.

The Mequon-Thiensville Community Foundation has announced Steven Peterman as its 2025 Pillar of the Community award recipient.