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Burnett County · Wisconsin
A little closer to what’s happening.
Live Grantsburg weather and weather alerts, real Northwoods Bodycams videos, and straight links to the county’s official sources.
Northwoods Bodycams
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Real northwest-Wisconsin bodycam video from this network — watch in the Videos section.
House placement. Local advertising opens with the public launch.
LIVEChecking National Weather Service alerts for Burnett County…
Right now in Grantsburg
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Grantsburg weather
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Source: api.weather.gov · Burnett County Airport area
From the News Room
The News Room is quiet
No stories are placed right now. The News Room drafts original stories from official sources — county, sheriff, court, and National Weather Service — and places them here after review. Nothing is copied from other outlets, and nothing appears here automatically.
Recent bookings
Sawyer County Now
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Our sister county app — bookings, courts, and the live Sawyer County scanner.
House placement. Local advertising opens with the public launch.
Published bookings from the Burnett County roster, posted to the Burnett County Mugshots and Bookings Page. Charges are allegations — every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Featured videos
Multiple Officers Exchange Gunfire With Armed Man | Mole Lake, WI | May 23, 2026
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 13, 2026
Washburn Bodycam: 83 MPH Stop, He Takes Off, Gets narcan, Ends Up on a Gurney
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 11, 2026
Hand-picked from the channel — real titles, real thumbnails. Tap a video and it plays right here in the app. The videos are hosted on YouTube; nothing is copied or downloaded.
Arrests are only half the story. This section will track what happened next — charges, pleas, sentencings — with the outcome labeled on every item. For now it shows the format with clearly fictional examples.
Records & sources
LINK-ONLY
Burnett County Now keeps no records of its own. Court records, the jail, and state databases live at the official source — this tab is the verified short list.
National Weather Service · Live
Grantsburg weather.
Live data from api.weather.gov for Grantsburg / Burnett County (observations from Grantsburg Municipal Airport, KGNA). U.S. government public data — no account, no key. Times are Central.
Current conditions
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Your alerts
YOUR CHOICE
Choose your alerts
LIVE · NWS
Pick which National Weather Service alert types this app shows you — on the Home and Public Safety banners and on the Alerts page. Every type starts on. Choices save on this device only; nothing is sent anywhere.
Your alerts appear here when you open the app. Push notifications arrive with the native app.
Next hours
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7-day outlook
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Forecast updates a few times an hour. If this page looks stale, reopen it — weather is fetched fresh every time the app loads, never cached as “live.”
Stay ahead of it
County alerts.
Weather alerts come straight from the National Weather Service, live. County announcements are link-only — they live on the county’s own channels.
Weather alerts
LIVE · NWS
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This page follows your alert choices — alert types you turn off stay out of this list and the banners, and the list says so when that happens.
Push notifications are not part of this test build. Nothing here replaces official emergency alerts — for an emergency, call 911.
The News Room · Our own reporting
Local news.
These stories are written by Burnett County Now, in our own words, from official sources read first-hand — county, sheriff, court, and National Weather Service — and each story cites its sources. Nothing here is copied from another outlet, and nothing is published automatically: every story is drafted, verified, and placed by a person.
The News Room is quiet
No stories are placed right now. The News Room drafts original stories from official sources — county, sheriff, court, and National Weather Service — and places them here after review. Nothing is copied from other outlets, and nothing appears here automatically.
Other outlets’ headlines and stories are never reproduced in this app — the links above go to the publishers’ own sites, where their reporting is supported.
Northwoods Bodycams · Featured
Watch the Northwoods.
Bodycam and dashcam video from Burnett, Washburn, and nearby counties. Selections are hand-picked from the channel’s latest uploads — real titles, real thumbnails, real dates. Videos play right here in the app — they are hosted on YouTube, and nothing is downloaded or copied.
Multiple Officers Exchange Gunfire With Armed Man | Mole Lake, WI | May 23, 2026
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 13, 2026
Washburn Bodycam: 83 MPH Stop, He Takes Off, Gets narcan, Ends Up on a Gurney
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 11, 2026
OWI Bodycam: Pedestrian Trapped Under the Car | Burnett County, WI Part 2
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 8, 2026
OWI Bodycam: Pedestrian Trapped Under the Car | Burnett County, WI Part 1
Northwoods Bodycams on YouTube · Uploaded Oct 6, 2026
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Follow Northwoods Bodycams where the videos actually live. This is an ordinary outbound link — no account is created and nothing is tracked here.
Featured selections are updated by hand for now. Automatic “latest uploads” would only ever use an official YouTube-supported feed, and only after its terms are verified.
Follow-through, labeled
Court cases.
An arrest is an allegation, not an outcome. Every item here will carry its status on its face — and a disposition the moment one exists.
When the court is in session, its stream runs on the court’s own channel, linked from the state directory. This app links out only — it does not record, rebroadcast, or restream proceedings.
How to read this page
CHARGED — ALLEGATION ONLY means charges were filed. Nothing has been proven, and the person is presumed innocent.
DISPOSITION means the court reached an outcome — plea, dismissal, sentence — and the item will say which, with its source and date.
Format examples
DEMO
State of Wisconsin v. A. Example — FICTIONAL
DEMO
CHARGED — ALLEGATION ONLY
Charges filed in Burnett County Circuit Court (demo event). This is a format example with an invented name and invented facts — it describes no real person and no real case.
Source: DEMO placeholder · Real items will link the official court record and name the verifying source and date.
State of Wisconsin v. B. Example — FICTIONAL
DEMO
DISPOSITION — CASE CLOSED (DEMO)
Outcome recorded (demo event): how every court-update item will close the loop instead of leaving an accusation standing alone. Invented name, invented facts — format example only.
Source: DEMO placeholder · Real dispositions come from official court records, verified before posting.
No real court items appear in this test build. Real items require staff verification against the official source first — that workflow is a separate step from this app.
Official sources only
Records live at the source.
Burnett County Now keeps no database of people — no name search, no booking history, no registry mirror. Names get mis-matched, and accusations outlive their outcomes; the official source is the only version that can correct itself. Here is the verified short list:
A verified Burnett County registry — collected record by record from the official Wisconsin registry under the same gate-checked process used for Sawyer County — is being built. Until it is published, this app carries no local registry data for Burnett County. Use the official lookups:
Verified October 15, 2026. No other county’s registry data is shown in this section.
Links verified October 14, 2026. Tapping a link leaves this app and opens the official site.
Think an official record is wrong? Contact the agency that published it — it is the only copy that can be corrected. Burnett County Now holds no records of its own to fix, by design.
Useful, simple, local
Keep it close.
Emergency assistance
For an emergency, call 911. This app is not an emergency service and scanner information is never a substitute.
County directory
Sheriff, dispatch, jail, courts, and county offices — the phone numbers are right in the app, in Public Safety. Tap a number to call it.
Your updates
DEMO
Demo preferences stay in this browser. No notification permission is requested and no alerts are sent in this build.
Your County Government
Every municipality in Burnett County — the county, 3 villages, and 21 towns — with its official web door. Towns without their own website are served by the county’s Municipalities hub; meeting agendas and minutes are published at each government’s own door.
The tribal government with communities in Burnett County — including Sand Lake and Danbury, with the tribal health clinic at Hertel. Headquarters: Webster, Wisconsin.
County and village events are published at the official doors in Your County Government, above.
House placement. Featured-event advertising opens with the public launch.
Membership — in development
A Burnett County Now membership tier is being designed. In this build there is no paywall, no sign-up, and nothing is charged.
About this preview
Burnett County Now is an independent local app. It is not affiliated with Burnett County government or any agency. This friends-test build: weather and weather alerts are LIVE from the National Weather Service; Featured Videos are real, hand-picked Northwoods Bodycams uploads that play right here in the app (hosted on YouTube); the News Room publishes our own original stories from official sources; Bookings shows our published Burnett County posts; records, court cases, warrants, sheriff updates, and road conditions are LINK-ONLY to the official sources; court cases show the labeling format with fictional DEMO examples.
Burnett County Now is built and published by Tamco, a local media operation — part of a family of county information products.
From the official roster · Published posts
Recent bookings.
Bookings verified against the Burnett County Sheriff’s Office roster and published to the Burnett County Mugshots and Bookings Page. This list shows the current month’s published bookings, rendered at build time — only posts that actually published appear here. Earlier months live in the Booking Archive. Charges are allegations; every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Booking photos and charges are shown on each card above, right here in the app. The same bookings also appear on our Facebook Page — each card links there as a secondary reference. What happened next in a case belongs to Court Cases.
Older bookings
Every earlier month we have published is kept in the Booking Archive, grouped by month — nothing published is dropped, it just moves there as newer bookings arrive.
Booking photos · Shown in the app
Mugshots.
The official booking photos from our published Burnett County posts, shown right here — no trip to Facebook needed. A booking whose photo is not on record does not appear in this gallery, and no photo is ever substituted for a missing one. Tap a photo to open the full booking — charges, dates, and the post link — in Bookings. Charges are allegations; every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Photos are the official roster photos carried by the published posts, rendered from the publishing ledger at build time — published bookings only.
The archive · By month
Booking archive.
Every booking we have ever published, grouped by the month it was booked. The current month stays live in Bookings and Mugshots; earlier months live here — pick a month to see its bookings. Entries are rendered at build time from our publishing ledger and our own published Facebook posts; a photo appears only when one is on record for that booking. The archive is part of the Everything tier and is open to everyone during free testing. Charges are allegations; every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
Burnett County Now keeps no warrant list of its own. This network posts Burnett County warrant batches to its Facebook Page; the authoritative warrant record always lives with the Sheriff's Office and the courts.
A warrant is a court order, not a conviction. If you believe a warrant record is wrong, contact the Sheriff’s Office or the Clerk of Court — only the official record can be corrected.
From the source
Sheriff updates.
Press releases, public-help requests, and office information live on the Sheriff’s Office’s own channels. When the News Room reports a sheriff’s item, it reads the official source first-hand and cites it in the story.
For an emergency, call 911. The Sheriff’s non-emergency and tip routes are listed on the county’s official sheriff page.
Before you go
Road conditions.
Statewide conditions come from the Wisconsin DOT’s official 511 service; county road and highway notices come from the county. Pair them with the live NWS alerts on the Weather tab — in the Northwoods, the forecast is half the road report.
Tips belong with law enforcement, not with this app — Burnett County Now has no tip form and collects nothing. The Sheriff’s Office’s own page carries its contact and tip routes.
If someone is in danger or a crime is in progress, call 911 — do not wait on a tip route.
Never approach a person you are reporting. Pass what you know to the Sheriff’s Office and let them take the next step.
Help, fast
Public safety.
The numbers that matter, right in the app — tap any number to call it. Every local number here was copied from that office's own official page, and the source is recorded in the app's directory data. Nothing in this app contacts emergency services for you — in an emergency, call 911 first.
LIVEChecking National Weather Service alerts for Burnett County…
Wisconsin's Sex Offender Registry is kept by the Department of Corrections. People convicted of certain offenses — generally those committed on or after December 25, 1993 — are required to register, and the registry is the public's official way to check.
What it is not: it is not a list of everyone ever arrested, and it is not a full criminal history. The Department of Corrections has not assessed the specific risk of any individual listed, and an address shown in the registry can be out of date.
How to search: on the official site you can search by name, or by location — a city, county, or ZIP code. The site asks you to accept its conditions of use first, and the search happens there, not in this app: this app keeps no registry records of its own. Registry information can change at any time — the official registry is always the authority. If you believe registry information is inaccurate, contact the Sex Offender Registry Program at 608-240-5830.
Get notified: the Department of Corrections offers free community notifications — an email when a registrant moves near an address you choose. Sign up on the official site, below.
Using registry information to injure, threaten, or harass a person — or to commit a crime against them, their family, or their employer — is itself a crime under Wisconsin law. This section only points you to the official registry. Burnett County Now is a Tamco product, not a government agency.
The banners on Home and this page — and the Alerts page — show the National Weather Service alert types you pick: tornado, severe thunderstorm, winter weather, flood, heat, or everything else. Your choices save on this device only.
Your alerts appear here when you open the app. Push notifications arrive with the native app.
Same team · On Facebook
Our network.
Burnett County Now is one of a small family of county information pages run by the same team. The rest of the family lives on Facebook — these are our own pages.
Burnett County Mugshots and Bookings
Daily bookings and mugshots from the Burnett County Sheriff’s roster — the Facebook home of the same published bookings shown in this app.