Wright County's annual township elections are being held throughout the area today. In the majority of townships, incumbents are running unopposed, though there are a few select townships where some seats are challenged, or open with no filers, meaning a write-in will decide the winner. Check with your local township regarding voting times and places. KRWC Radio will have complete results on the township vote in our Wednesday local news.

State Senator Amy Koch of Buffalo has withdrawn her bill that called for lifting the state's moratorium on any new construction of nuclear power facilities. Late last week the bill was nearing a vote in its first Senate committee, but Senator Koch decided to table the bill after the Senate Energy, Utilities, Technology and Communications Committee approved an amendment that would have allowed such construction, but not until such a time as the federal government opens a national site for nuclear waste disposal. The long-proposed Yucca Mountain site in Nevada has been dropped by the federal government, making it very unlikely that any national site would be selected and developed in the near future. Other requirements of the amendment would have demanded certain conditions that would presumably spell out what would happen should cost overruns on any new plant be encountered. While the bill is stalled for the time being, Senator Koch says it could be brought to the Senate floor as an amendment on another bill.