Ashland County News

Steve Koosman leaves a second barn built in the early 1930s at the Oa dovero-Flesia farm near Mellen.

The state of Wisconsin received 48-million dollars in federal stimulus money to go towards weatherization programs in the state.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend Special Focus Madeline Island: construction hotspot Highway, airport, other work add up to more than $5 million in summer projects.

State regulators have dismissed a complaint against Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman that contended he made campaign calls from a government phone when he was Ashland County district attorney in 2002.

HEADLINES: TEA Party serves up grassroots politics Saturday Area voters will continue to voice their discontent with politics as usual at a second TEA Party Rally Saturday, July 18, in New Richmond.

Randal is on incumbent New Jersey governor Jon Corzine's short list to be his running mate.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says wolves have killed four dogs in just the last week.

A political campaign can have many bumps in the road, especially if people don't play fair.

Ashland County District Attorney Sean Duffy will make an announcement about Wisconsin's 7th Congressional District Wednesday.

From the morning papers around Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Timber Rattlers new affiliation with the Milwaukee Brewers is paying off at the gate.

As part of national efforts to create jobs and provide immediate economic benefits to Wisconsin and the country, Governor Jim Doyle has signed a $3 million contract to improve nine miles of US 2 between Odanah and Saxon.

A second Republican appears to be making a run for Congress and will make an announcement Wednesday in Wausau.

My neighbor Crandall stops by. "How are you doing?" I ask. "Everything is nearly copacetic.

The Department of Natural Resources is expecting a record number of elk calves this spring.

Although I do believe in the United States criminal justice system, there are some things about it that drive me crazy and just don't make any sense.

Welcome, May Day! It's the traditional International Workers' Day and once was celebrated by kids dancing around the maypole, but there's something more about the first day of May around these here parts.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court says a judge erred when he allowed his own mother to be a juror in a criminal case he heard.

The U.S. Forest Service has reached a settlement in a lawsuit with environmentalists over a large logging project in northern Wisconsin that delays logging in parts of it for years, a spokeswoman said Tuesday.

Daily walleye bag limits have been revised on 418 lakes in the Wisconsin Ceded Territory in response to harvest declarations made by six bands of Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin, the state Department of Natural Resources has announced.