The state of Wisconsin recommends that people eat just one meal a month of Lake Superior smelt after cancer-causing chemicals were found in fi…
BILLINGS, Mont. — Wildlife advocates on Thursday asked a federal court to overturn a U.S. government decision that stripped Endangered Species…
A referendum vote asking Ashland County voters to approve nearly $1 million in new property taxes will be on the ballot in April.
Tourism in Ashland and Bayfield County was surprisingly good in 2020 and industry officials in both counties believe tourism will remain stron…
MADISON (AP) — Wisconsin's state and local tax burden dropped below the national average and taxes as a share of income in 2020 reached its lo…
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan's demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking …
Good news, Bay Area: We’re no Los Angeles or Miami.
The year 2020 was a closed-for-the-season deal for much of the live entertainment industry. Bayfield’s Big Top Chautauqua was no exception.
The Ashland Music Boosters have raised enough money to purchase new choir risers from StageRight. No longer will students be on old, unsteady …
Mellen City Council member Nick Peters knows the importance of reliable electric service to this small Ashland County city.
Chequamegon Unitarian Universalist Fellowship will welcome Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes as speaker for its online service on Jan. 10. His talk is e…
STEVENS POINT (AP) — A memorial on the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point campus now marks the land as a gravesite for Native Americans bur…
Major gaps in broadband access plague rural areas of Wisconsin where hundreds of thousands of people are going without high-speed Internet. Ye…
A sagging high-voltage power line is being blamed for an hours-long power-outage in Ashland and Odanah Thursday morning.
In a large room filled with humming computers, glowing flatscreens and flashing, LED-lighted gaming mice, Ashland students are in training.
Oden knows that he has heart-stopping good looks, accented by his beautiful brindle fur. One day, after Oden was done playing a spirited game …
Bayfield County opened its snowmobile trails Wednesday, though conditions were variable throughout the county. The lack of snow and cold tempe…
CORE Community Resources has been just as busy through the holidays as other charitable organizations in the Bay Area, and its not slowing dow…
The first small trickle of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Bay Area Monday at Ashland's Memorial Medical Center.
Hiking, biking, sailing, kayaking, orchard trotting, shopping, sight-seeing, touring and, after all that, a cold brew at an Ashwabay microbrew…
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