MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The University of Wisconsin System is waiving application fees to its two-year schools for the fall semester. System President Ray Cross told regents during a meeting Thursday at UW-Milwaukee that the move is designed to reassure…
OSSEO, Wis. (AP) - Sheriff's officials say a woman has died in a lawn mowing accident in Trempealeau County. Authorities say 63-year-old Deanna Matchey was operating her riding lawn mower on a hill near Osseo when it rolled over on…
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) - U.S. officials have decided to relocate gray wolves to Isle Royale National Park in Lake Superior, where the predator species that has roamed the remote wilderness for about 70 years is on the brink of…
ST. CLOUD, Minn. (AP) - Nearly 900 employees who'll be laid off by the planned closure of an Electrolux plant in central Minnesota will have access to additional help. The St. Cloud Times reports that the U.S. Department of Labor…
DULUTH, Minn. - At the end of June, the Second Annual Chester Park Trail Race will take off, but first a free group run to get a sneak peek of the…
DULUTH, Minn. -Summer is nearly here and the nice weather has many Northlanders heating up their grills. For this week's Cooking Connection, FOX 21's William Seay learned how to carve ribeye steak…
DULUTH, Minn. – Bridge inspections are scheduled for multiple ramps along the I-35 corridor Wednesday, June 13 and Monday, June 18 in Duluth. Wednesday, June 13: Motorists entering I-35 northbound from Highway 23/Grand Avenue will encounter a ramp closure and…
BENTON, Ky. (AP) - A Kentucky district where two students were killed and 21 others were hurt in a school shooting will add police officers, install metal detectors and ban backpacks at middle and high schools. News outlets report a…
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NEW YORK (AP) — He went from delivering pizza to being detained by immigration officers. An Ecuadorean restaurant worker making a delivery to an Army garrison in Brooklyn wound up being detained June 1 after a routine background check at…
DULUTH, Minn.- A teacher with the Duluth School District is under investigation and on unpaid leave after two kindergarten students were accidentally locked outside in the cold. The incident happened in…
DULUTH, Minn. - St. Luke's Hospital in Duluth is stepping up the way it treats cancer patients. This is all done with a new state of the art linear accelerator tool, which delivers…
TWO HARBORS, Minn.- It’s heating up in Two Harbors as a new taco stand is spicing up the downtown. 5th Street Tacos is bringing a new style of fast food. The…
DULUTH, Minn.- Volunteers are digging in to make sure Duluth is colorful regardless of the weather. Gardeners and city workers are planting for a blooming city during Dig in for the…
DULUTH, Minn. - Two candidates running for Minnesota governor this fall made a stop in Duluth. DFL endorsed Rep. Erin Murphy and her running mate Rep. Erin Maye Quade, (DFL) District 57A,…
DULUTH, Minn.- Attorneys and legal professors are offering free legal help to veterans in the Northland. Finding services to help with legal issues are amongst the top ten issues veterans…
DULUTH, Minn. - Today kicks off the Wednesday Night Glensheen Kayak Series. Duluth Experience and Glensheen have partnered up so you can paddle along Lake Superior's North Shore as part of…
DULUTH, Minn.- Meanwhile the William A. Irvin's course will be slightly narrowed near the start and finish line this year. That's because of the delayed seawall reconstruction project in the Minnesota Slip, which is home to the Irvin and…
SUPERIOR, Wis.- The Superior Downtown Farmers Market is back open for the summer and fall. The market is open from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. every Wednesday through the end of October…
SUPERIOR, Wis.-A huge family with seven children is getting a home built for them in Superior. It’s all part of a project by the Western Lake Superior Habitat for Humanity and regional carpenters. The family also works to put the…
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Prosecutors have reached a plea deal with a 19-year-old man who was shot by Minneapolis officers after he brandished a knife in a police interrogation room in December. Marcus Fischer pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Record heat returned to the United States with a vengeance in May. May warmed to a record average 65.4 degrees in the Lower 48 states, breaking the high of 64.7 set in 1934, according to federal weather…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - The state of Wisconsin will be receiving $86 million less than what it requested from the federal government to pay for upgrades and expansion of Interstate 94 south of Milwaukee in conjunction with the Foxconn Technology…
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) - Former Minnesota Attorney General Mike Hatch says he's dropping out of the race for his old seat. Hatch told Minnesota Public Radio News that he was satisfied with the field of candidates in the race.…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - A report from the Wisconsin Department of Resources suggests the state's wolf population may be stabilizing after decades of growth. Wisconsin Public Radio reports that volunteer trackers reported a minimum wolf count between about 900 to…
DULUTH, Minn. – A Congdon Park Elementary School teacher is on unpaid leave following an incident with two of her students in January 2017. According to ISD 709 officials, the teacher left two of her 5-year-old kindergarten students unattended and…
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MEDFORD, Wis. (AP) - Three people are dead after a driver lost control of a vehicle in north-central Wisconsin and crashed into logging equipment. The Taylor County Sheriff's Office says 49-year-old William Juneau of Gilman was driving up to 80…
