Ashland County News

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.

Whether he's wielding a chain saw in a cedar swamp or piloting an airplane above towering pines, Jim Hintz of Fifield is seldom surprised by wildlife he sees in Wisconsin's Northwoods.

Winter weary Wisconsinites to the north are dealing with another snow storm. Eight inches of snow has fallen in Ashland and Iron counties where a winter storm warning is in effect until noon Wednesday.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation issued the following news release: A grading project in Ashland County, an asphalt paving project in Oneida County, a concrete paving project in Ozaukee County, a ...

A number of area families can point with pride to a family member who has had a tour of duty in Iraq.

A Glidden man was taken to the Flambeau Medical Center in Park Falls following a head-on collision with a snowplow Saturday evening.

Because of the dangerous winter weather, a few roads in Northern Wisconsin have been deemed impassable.

The School District of Ashland sponsored a hat and mitten drive to collect winter wear for community families.

The deaths of six endangered gray wolves, whose remains were found the day before and during the gun deer season, are being investigated by state and federal agencies.

We won't know until tomorrow, but reports indicate that Wisconsin hunters took fewer deer in the nine-day gun season that ended yesterday.