Wisconsin
Wisconsin parents fuming after climate protesters strip down naked during public protest, official says
A Wisconsin local official is fuming at a left-wing group for staging a naked protest throughout a nearby city in the purview of children, calling the event “evil” in a Fox News Digital interview.
The World Naked Bike Ride (WNBR) is an international protest event to promote liberal causes, including pushing animosity about the petroleum industry’s agenda. The event has outraged local parents in Madison, located in Dane County, who try to keep their children out of the city when the bike ride is scheduled, according to county board supervisor Jeff Weigand.
The group said the June 15 event was “clothing-optional” focused on “protesting petroleum products and supporting positive body values.”
Weigand’s impression is that their mission is dark and depraved, and said the cyclists desperately need Jesus.
“We need to protect children,” he said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “And that’s government’s fundamental role as to protect innocence and and to protect good and to punish evil. And when we see this type of behavior happening, especially to our children, it’s absolutely appalling and we cannot allow it to happen.”
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Christian county executive, Jeff Weigand, stands against naked bike ride.
“I absolutely believe that this is evil. Many people say it’s about body positivity or protesting oil,” the father of five children said in an interview with Fox News Digital. “They will stop at nothing to push their agenda on innocent bystanders.”
Weigand was among the first community members to raise concerns about the climate protest, prompting him to question why local police did not take action against the cyclists.
“It’s really inexcusable that this type of behavior continues to happen. And it’s, and it’s really, frustrating that law enforcement continues to allow it to happen, when it really shouldn’t be taking place in the first place,” Weigand said.
A nudity bill was introduced to the Wisconsin Senate that proposed to prohibit the “attendance of children at public events with groups of nude adults.” SB 477 ultimately “failed to concur” by April 15.
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“We’re just trying to, you know, have a fun community event out here,” a participant told a local media outlet. “Try to see the good in the thing instead of always looking for the negative.”
Another participant said, “One of the things that I love about the ride is seeing families out there with parents with their kids saying, ‘Hey, look at the naked riders. Wave at the naked riders,’ things like that. The ones that are doing that are sending their children very important message that this is not weird, this is not strange.”
The Madison bike ride showcased nude cyclists in the town square, leading a Christian dad to call it “evil.” (Fox News Digital)
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Weigand firmly disagreed, believing he has a right to not see nudity in the public square.
“The proponents of this naked bike ride say that they have the freedom to protest, and they absolutely do. But when their freedom to protest violates my freedom, and it forces me to see something that I don’t want to see or I don’t want my children to see, that’s a violation of my freedom, and that’s a violation of my liberty. And that’s where they cross the line,” the father of five and former foster care parent told Fox News Digital.
“We’re going to continue to raise this issue and fight against it because it’s worth protecting the innocence of our children,” Weigand added.
He offered a recommendation that the participants “enter into a relationship with Jesus Christ.”
Fox News Digital contacted the bike group for comment but did not immediately receive a response.
Manuel Franco claims his $768 million Powerball jackpot
Manuel Franco, 24, of West Allis was revealed Tuesday as the winner of the $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at March 8, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Pick 3 numbers from March 8 drawing
Midday: 2-3-5
Evening: 2-2-5
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from March 8 drawing
Midday: 6-2-7-6
Evening: 4-8-7-6
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning All or Nothing numbers from March 8 drawing
Midday: 02-04-05-07-09-10-12-17-19-20-22
Evening: 02-03-05-06-08-09-12-13-14-16-18
Check All or Nothing payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Badger 5 numbers from March 8 drawing
05-15-17-20-24
Check Badger 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning SuperCash numbers from March 8 drawing
05-11-19-29-30-31, Doubler: Y
Check SuperCash payouts and previous drawings here.
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Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
- Prizes up to $599: Can be claimed at any Wisconsin Lottery retailer.
- Prizes from $600 to $199,999: Can be claimed in person at a Lottery Office. By mail, send the signed ticket and a completed claim form available on the Wisconsin Lottery claim page to: Prizes, PO Box 777 Madison, WI 53774.
- Prizes of $200,000 or more: Must be claimed in person at the Madison Lottery office. Call the Lottery office prior to your visit: 608-261-4916.
Can Wisconsin lottery winners remain anonymous?
No, according to the Wisconsin Lottery. Due to the state’s open records laws, the lottery must, upon request, release the name and city of the winner. Other information about the winner is released only with the winner’s consent.
When are the Wisconsin Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Super Cash: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Evening): 9 p.m. CT daily.
- Megabucks: 9:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday and Saturday.
- Badger 5: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
That lucky feeling: Peek at the past week’s winning numbers.
Feeling lucky? WI man wins $768 million Powerball jackpot **
WI Lottery history: Top 10 Powerball and Mega Million jackpots
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Wisconsin editor. You can send feedback using this form.
Hunters in the 2025 Wisconsin white-tailed deer hunting seasons registered more bucks than any year since 2007 and the most deer overall since 2012, according to the Department of Natural Resources.
What’s more, the harvest of antlerless deer – the key to herd control efforts – showed a year-over-year increase of 5% and the archer, crossbow, holiday, late antlerless and youth seasons all showed higher deer registrations.
“All in all, our harvest numbers were strong, the strongest we’ve seen in a couple decades,” said Ryan Haffele, DNR acting deer program specialist.
Haffele and several DNR colleagues presented the 2025 Wisconsin deer hunting season summary at the Feb. 25 Natural Resources Board meeting in Madison.
The 2025 statewide deer hunting opportunities opened Sept. 13 with the crossbow and archer (vertical bow) seasons and included a Oct. 11 and 12 youth, Nov. 22-30 gun, Dec. 1-10 muzzleloader and Dec. 11-14 late antlerless hunts.
Many deer management units also included a Dec. 24 to Jan. 1 holiday hunt and late bow seasons that closed Jan. 31.
All told, hunters had more opportunity than ever to take a deer in Wisconsin.
Their pursuit was further aided by a statewide deer population estimated at 1.82 million following the 2024-25 hunting seasons, highest on record, according to the DNR. Two consecutive mild winters helped bolster the herd in the northern and central forest zones and deer numbers in the agricultural zones have generally swelled over the last decade after the Wisconsin Legislature prohibited Earn-A-Buck regulations and the early gun hunting season for antlerless deer.
Both the central and southern agricultural zones showed record high deer populations, according to the 2024 post-hunt estimate by the DNR.
The Feb. 25 report was dominated by positives as hunters took advantage of the higher deer numbers and excellent late season conditions.
The 2025 results are especially impressive since the number of deer hunters has dropped by 116,640 (or 16%) in the last 25 years, according to the DNR.
The DNR data showed hunters in 2025 registered 389,481 deer, including 165,754 bucks and 173,727 antlerless deer. The totals, through the end of January, will increase when registrations on agricultural damage tags and tribal harvest are added in the coming weeks.
The seasons started out strong with 8,480 deer registered in the two-day youth hunt, 18% higher than the five-year average.
The only season in 2025 that didn’t show a year-over-year or five-year increase was the nine-day gun hunt. Hunters registered 183,094 deer in the season, which has the most annual participants and contributes the biggest harvest. But hunter effort over the last three days was hampered by a heavy statewide snowstorm and the deer kill fell 4% from the previous year.
Once the storm passed, though, the snow cover persisted through December and helped hunters see and track deer in the muzzleloader, late antlerless and holiday hunts, Haffele said.
In the muzzleloader season, hunters registered 11,911 deer, 68% higher than the five-year average, while the total in the four-day December antlerless season was 10,591 deer (30% higher) and holiday antlerless deer hunt was 11,278 deer (77% higher).
Haffele said the 2025 data helps illustrate an important aspect of deer management.
“It helps tell the story of how a lot of our hunting harvest can be condition-based,” Haffele said. “When conditions are good we still have the capacity to get out there and have excellent harvest conditions. But the counter of that is when conditions aren’t as good it can also bring down our harvest, which we don’t have control over most of the time.”
Continuing a trend since 2014 when crossbows became legal for all hunters regardless of age or physical ability, the crossbow season kill of 70,050 was the highest on record.
But deer registered by archers (users of vertical bows) also was higher in 2025. The archer kill of 41,461 was 5% higher than the five-year average.
The 2025 seasons were the first with a hybrid system of deer management units. Most of the state uses county lines to designate DMUs, but last year the northern forest and central forest zones were rearranged into habitat-based units.
While it will take a few more years of data to allow direct comparisons, Haffele said the first year results looked good.
Among counties or deer management units, Marathon County showed the highest deer registration, with 11,876 deer, followed by Waupaca (10,525), Shawano (9,798), Vernon (9,344) and Dunn (8,972).
License sales: Sales of deer hunting licenses continued a trend, albeit very slightly, in the negative direction. In 2025, the DNR reported sales of 792,969 deer hunting licenses (gun, crossbow and archer combined) a 0.1% decline from 2024. The gun license sales of 552,362 were down 0.5%.
Among the licenses, the DNR reported 40,348 were sold to “new hunters,” a 0.6% decrease from 2024.
Hunting incidents: Two firearm-related incidents were reported during the nine-day gun season, including one fatality, according to the DNR.
The last decade has shown an average of five incidents for the nine-day season. Six of the last 10 have had no fatal incident.
CWD positives increase: As of March 4, the DNR had tested 18,232 deer in Wisconsin for chronic wasting disease and 2,035 (or 11.1%) were CWD-positive, according to the DNR. The number of CWD-positive deer and percentage of positive tests are highest since the state began testing for the disease in the 1990s. It continues a trend toward increasing number of infected deer and higher prevalence rates in the affected areas.
Under the current “monitor only” strategy in Wisconsin, the trajectories of higher prevalence and geographical spread of CWD are expected to continue in the state, according to wildlife disease experts.
The fatal disease was first identified in the 1960s in captive deer at a Colorado research facility. It was documented in Wisconsin for the first time in deer killed in the 2001 hunting season near Mount Horeb. It has since spread to more than half of the state’s counties.
Although CWD has not been proven to cause illness in humans, the Centers for Disease Control and other health agencies recommend humans not consume meat from a CWD-positive animal. The DNR provides free, voluntary CWD testing on deer samples by hunters and others.
Deer donation higher: Hunters provided 1,331 deer to the state’s deer donation program in 2025, a 21% year-over-year increase, according to the DNR.
The number is expected to rise since about one-fourth of processors hadn’t filed reports as of Feb. 25. They have until March 31 to do so.
The program had 58 participating processors in 41 counties for the 2025 deer hunting seasons. In another optimistic note, the number of processors increased for the second consecutive year, Haffele said.
The program relies on hunters to donate deer. Venison from donated deer is processed and distributed to food pantries across the state. Since the program began in 2000, hunters have donated over 100,000 deer, which were processed into over four million pounds of ground venison, according to the DNR.
“Overall a lot of great, positive things coming out of the 2025 deer seasons that we hope will set us up for a successful 2026,” Haffele said.
Manuel Franco claims his $768 million Powerball jackpot
Manuel Franco, 24, of West Allis was revealed Tuesday as the winner of the $768.4 million Powerball jackpot.
Mark Hoffman, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
The Wisconsin Lottery offers multiple draw games for those aiming to win big.
Here’s a look at March 7, 2026, results for each game:
Winning Powerball numbers from March 7 drawing
17-18-30-50-68, Powerball: 24, Power Play: 3
Check Powerball payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 3 numbers from March 7 drawing
Midday: 9-3-6
Evening: 4-0-4
Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Pick 4 numbers from March 7 drawing
Midday: 8-0-7-4
Evening: 4-7-8-4
Check Pick 4 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning All or Nothing numbers from March 7 drawing
Midday: 05-07-09-10-11-13-14-15-16-17-18
Evening: 01-03-04-05-07-08-11-14-16-18-19
Check All or Nothing payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Badger 5 numbers from March 7 drawing
01-07-11-22-28
Check Badger 5 payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning SuperCash numbers from March 7 drawing
09-13-14-31-36-37, Doubler: N
Check SuperCash payouts and previous drawings here.
Winning Megabucks numbers from March 7 drawing
06-07-09-19-31-34
Check Megabucks payouts and previous drawings here.
Feeling lucky? Explore the latest lottery news & results
Are you a winner? Here’s how to claim your lottery prize
- Prizes up to $599: Can be claimed at any Wisconsin Lottery retailer.
- Prizes from $600 to $199,999: Can be claimed in person at a Lottery Office. By mail, send the signed ticket and a completed claim form available on the Wisconsin Lottery claim page to: Prizes, PO Box 777 Madison, WI 53774.
- Prizes of $200,000 or more: Must be claimed in person at the Madison Lottery office. Call the Lottery office prior to your visit: 608-261-4916.
Can Wisconsin lottery winners remain anonymous?
No, according to the Wisconsin Lottery. Due to the state’s open records laws, the lottery must, upon request, release the name and city of the winner. Other information about the winner is released only with the winner’s consent.
When are the Wisconsin Lottery drawings held?
- Powerball: 9:59 p.m. CT on Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday.
- Mega Millions: 10:00 p.m. CT on Tuesday and Friday.
- Super Cash: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 3 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- Pick 4 (Evening): 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Day): 1:30 p.m. CT daily.
- All or Nothing (Evening): 9 p.m. CT daily.
- Megabucks: 9:00 p.m. CT on Wednesday and Saturday.
- Badger 5: 9:00 p.m. CT daily.
That lucky feeling: Peek at the past week’s winning numbers.
Feeling lucky? WI man wins $768 million Powerball jackpot **
WI Lottery history: Top 10 Powerball and Mega Million jackpots
This results page was generated automatically using information from TinBu and a template written and reviewed by a Wisconsin editor. You can send feedback using this form.
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