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News In Your Area
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Winter activities continue to confront challenges in northern Wisconsin
While bitter cold has benefited snowmaking this month, organizers of North America’s largest cross country ski race are crafting contingency plans for another year with below normal snowfall.
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With housing in short supply, Wisconsin communities, developers look to shuttered schools
Since 2017, communities and developers have sought state grants or tax credits to redevelop around 20 schools as Wisconsin contends with a housing shortage.
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Fisharama returns to northern Wisconsin for its 58th year
After two years of cancellations, organizers are ready to give the Amnicon Lake ice fishing event another shot. A lack of volunteers might stand in their way.
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Hunters will be able to harvest more bears in Wisconsin this year
Wisconsin hunters will have a chance to hunt more bears this year after the harvest rebounded last fall, exceeding the state’s quota.
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From kubb to ice bowling, it’s never too cold for the Lake Superior Ice Festival
The Lake Superior Ice Festival is one of the city’s biggest annual events. It’s held on Friday and Saturday, with a plethora of activities on Barker’s Island, along with ice sculptures popping up around the city.
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Film festival offerings look at not being ‘Native enough,’ and protecting a natural treasure
Held at the Bay Theater last weekend in Ashland, the Big Water Film Festival continues online through Feb. 2. Two of the films concentrate on Ojibwe culture.
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Proposed listing aims to keep monarch numbers from fluttering away
Federal wildlife officials are proposing to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species due to population declines, and researchers in Wisconsin hope it will prompt more conservation of monarch habitat.
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Study finds winter days on the Great Lakes growing shorter due to climate change
Researchers arrived at their findings by examining ice conditions and surface water temperatures.
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Lac du Flambeau tribe says it will ticket people trespassing on disputed roads
Leaders of the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa announced the tribe will begin issuing citations today to individuals trespassing on four roads within its reservation that are at the heart of a longstanding dispute with the town.
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Amid battles over local control, judge dismisses challenge over local regulation of large farms
A judge has dismissed a Polk County case that challenged a local ordinance regulating large farms as more communities have sought local control over concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs.
