MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin's unemployment rate hit 14.1% in April, a level not seen since the Great Depression, the state Department of Wo…
It started with a thought in the mind of Bud Moe, who with his wife Jodi are starting their seventh season as caretakers at Barron County’s Ve…
Rice Lake City Council voted Tuesday for city officials to return to in-person meetings, but other emergency precautions will be extended 60 days.
The Barron County Board of Supervisors, with and without masks according to their own choosing, held an in-person meeting and were scattered t…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin officials are working on new tracking technology for absentee ballots and considering a host of other changes t…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers' administration overstepped its authority when it extended the governor's stay-at-home order th…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican Tom Tiffany, a state senator endorsed by President Donald Trump, easily won a special congressional election T…
The owners of Kwik Trip and Menard’s, many Native American tribes and Koch Industries are big donors in the special election race for Wisconsi…
Among all Wisconsin local governments, its counties are likely to face the greatest fiscal challenges during this unprecedented COVID-19 crisi…
Medical systems around the state have been cutting workers’ hours while at the same time ramping up to handle the coronavirus pandemic.
A week since the City of Rice Lake’s reopen resolution, a trickle of business are opening their doors in spite of the state’s official restric…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Tony Evers is turning over more than 10,000 pages in documents to Republican state Rep. John Nygren, and …
State Sen. Janet Bewley and the folks she serves back home are hoping that her new position leading the Senate’s Democratic caucus will bring …
Rice Lake City Council approved a resolution Tuesday inviting businesses to reopen ahead of the May 26 timeline of the Safer At Home order iss…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Latest on the coronavirus outbreak in Wisconsin (all times local):
A seat on the Rice Lake City Council is opening up due to an alderman leaving the city.
On the Rice Lake City Council agenda for its April 28 meeting is a resolution to allow "Limited Reopening of Rice Lake Businesses & Local …
In the interest of taking care of its residents, the Barron County Board of Supervisors, which met Tuesday morning, approved use of the former…
Two new faces are among the 29 supervisors on the Barron County Board following the April 7 election.
Six of Wisconsin’s seven Supreme Court justices will soon be women again, once more giving the state the highest ratio of female high court ju…
Michael M. Diercks has been elected to a third term as Mayor of Rice Lake. Diercks received 910 votes to 779 for challenger Doug Edwardsen, ac…
The state Supreme Court Monday afternoon overturned Tony Evers' order pushing back in-person voting until June, putting the spring election ba…
At the direction of Gov. Tony Evers, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) is urging the U.S. Departm…
Though officials are urging absentee voting, polls will be open form 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. On the ballot are the presidential primary, a s…
Barron County Economic Development Corporation executive director Dave Armstrong has announced his candidacy for Wisconsin’s 75th Assembly Dis…
Your municipal clerk may need to call on residents of Barron County willing to serve as poll workers for the April 7 election to replace poll …
If you’re a fan of the Simpsons, you remember the classic Halloween episode from 1996 in which aliens take over the bodies of Bill Clinton and…
The City of Rice Lake has declared a public health emergency, echoing warnings from higher levels of government on the Coronavirus pandemic.
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