Iron County News

Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Matt Frank today announced the 2009 Citizen-Based Monitoring Partnership Program awards, providing $100,000 to help fund 22 high-priority natural resource monitoring projects conducted by citizen groups across the state.

Two law enforcement officers who died early in the 20th century will be honored on Friday with their names added to a memorial on the Capitol grounds.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation North Central Region today announced the schedule for lifting the seasonal weight restrictions on some of the region's state highways.

Gypsy moth infestations have moved slightly westward in Wisconsin. Field surveys taken in 2008 revealed the gypsy moth had taken hold in Monroe and Iron counties, Madeline Island and the Apostle Islands.

Family, friends, and even some public officials are demanding answers - after what they claim was a half-hearted search effort for a woman with dementia.

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 Department of Workforce Development on Thursday released local employment figures for the month of January.

The weather this month will determine if northern Wisconsin deer will suffer population losses similar to last year, said Keith Warnke, head deer biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources.

When the 2007-2008 winter season was in the books, many places in Wisconsin received up to 240% of their normal winter snowfall.

Fond du Lac is the third-highest metropolitan area in the state for unemployment.

Getting commodities to market is the subject of a comprehensive study underway in northern Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Whether you call it a Christmas tree, a Holiday tree or the State Capitol tree, the decorated tree that has brightened the Capitol rotunda for the last 58 years annually draws legions of visitors.

The Department of Natural Resources Tuesday reported the 2008 gun-deer season harvest in Wisconsin was the lowest since 2002, when fears of chronic wasting disease kept some hunters out of the woods.