Wisconsin State Senate President Mary Felzkowski issued a statement Saturday after two Minnesota state lawmakers were shot.

Wisconsin Legislative leadership sent a statement on Saturday, following two Minnesota lawmakers who were shot in their homes by a man impersonating a police officer.

Vance Boelter, who is the suspect in the Minnesota lawmakers' shootings, was reportedly the CEO of a company named Red Lions Group with connections to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The smell of fire filled the air as thick smoke from wildfires in Canada blanketed part of the Midwest and created hazardous air quality on Tuesday.

Deer hunters in southern Minnesota can start grabbing their rifles, leaving the shotgun in the gun cabinet, during the next firearms deer season.

Smoke traveling from wildfires in Canada, North Dakota and Minnesota triggered an air quality warning in northern Wisconsin.

Additional measures are being added for this weekend's Wisconsin Democratic Party convention in Wisconsin Dells in light of the assassination of a Minnesota state lawmaker. A source told 12 News Political Director Matt Smith,