CHIPPEWA FALLS, Wis. (AP) – Local health officials are working with the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to determine the source of a norovirus infection that sickened dozens of people at a festival at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. The Leader-Telegram reports that at least 60 adults and children became sick with gastroenteritis after attending the Special Kids Day event…
KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) – A southeast Wisconsin county is making the drug used to reduce opioid overdoses more widely available in an attempt to fight opioid overdose deaths. The Kenosha News reports that Kenosha County’s Narcan Distribution Initiative will train law enforcement officials and others to use the overdose-reversing drug naloxone. Trained individuals will then be able to distribute naloxone…
IRON RIVER, Wisc. – With just one week before Christmas, an Iron River family is without a home. The Iron River Fire Department says a fire destroyed their home Saturday morning. Officials say the fire started in an outdoor wood boiler and quickly moved to the home nearby due to windy conditions. No one was hurt, the home is a…
Missing 14-year-old female from Barnes, WI found dead.
The following information comes from a release from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office following the week long efforts thus far to repair severe damages from the July 11th flooding.
The Bayfield County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call at about 4:40 p.m. Saturday afternoon reporting a child had been run over by a vehicle.
One person has died after crashing their vehicle in the City of Washburn.
Apostle Islands National Lakeshore will hold two town hall meetings in August to discuss proposed recreation fee increases to be implemented in 2016.
A Butternut man has pleaded guilty to causing the death of his girlfriend’s two year old son.
The Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is pleased to announce that the historic West Bay Club has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
A temporary closure to all use is in place for the northeast portion of Oak Island, including campsite 6 within Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, due to increased bear activity.
On Sunday, July 05, 2015 at 3:10 a.m. a Bayfield County Deputy was on patrol and came across a motor vehicle crash on U.S. Hwy 2.
The Department of Natural Resources has decided to use an Environmental Impact Statement process for the proposed Badgerwood swine operation in the town of Eileen, Bayfield County.
An Ashland teen will be spending the rest of his life behind bars.
On June 21, 2015 at approximately 7:30 a.m. the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office was notified of a motor vehicle crash that occurred on US Highway 2 just east of Goslin Road in the Township of Sanborn.
The state Department of Natural Resources plans to ask its board this month to prohibit hunters from killing antlerless deer in 13 counties in effort to regrow the herd.
No one was injured after a culvert collapsed on Highway 13 just south of Red Cliff, Wisconsin.
A federal worker safety agency is proposing a $193,000 fine against a Wisconsin dairy co-op after a man died in a grain bin in November.
A mother and her son have died in a fire in Bayfield County.
On 3–31–15 at approx. 7:00 P.M. Bayfield Co. Communications Center received a 911 call reporting a person, possibly drowning in Spider Lake, Town of Iron River, after falling through the ice.
A 15-year-old Ashland boy has pleaded guilty to killing his father.
On Wednesday March 11, at about 2 p.m. a deputy from the Sawyer County Sheriff’s Department made a traffic stop on a suspect vehicle in several armed robberies that had occurred in the city of Hayward, the city of Rice Lake and the city of Ashland.
Around this time last year thousands of people were flocking to Bayfield for a pilgrimage to the ice caves.
They were a hit that ignited in the 1950s and have since made a comeback – vinyl records. After all these years, sales are once again thriving.
