IRON MOUNTAIN — Two months of below-normal rainfall has led to severe drought in parts of Dickinson, Iron and Menominee counties, along with bordering Wisconsin communities. Locally, September has produced about a quarter-inch of rain since the U.S. Drought Monitor’s latest update, but ...
Residents who have been struggling with PFAS contamination in northeastern Wisconsin are one step closer to securing safe water after lawmakers voted to release $10 million from the state’s PFAS trust fund. The Republican-controlled Joint Committee on Finance last week unanimously approved ...
CHICAGO (AP) — Diesel hit a record price in the U.S. on Friday, soaring to an average of $5.85 a gallon for the first time as the six-month war with Iran disrupts the world’s flow of fuel. Because diesel is used for many freight and delivery networks, higher diesel prices mean higher ...
FLORENCE, Wis. — A Kingsford man was taken into custody last week and faces drug charges in Florence County in connection with the April death of a Vilas County, Wis., man, according to the Florence County Sheriff’s Office. Mark Allan Johnson II was arrested Aug. 26, Sheriff Teresa Chrisman said Thursday in a news release that lists charges of first degree reckless homicide/delivery of drugs, manufacture/deliver amphetamine and manufacture/delivery of narcotics. Johnson was in the Florence County Jail on a $100,000 bond, according to the sheriff. The arrest was made after an ...
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service is closing 23 research and development stations in more than a dozen states as part of an organizational overhaul under President Donald Trump that is intended to trim costs and concentrate the agency’s resources in Western states, officials ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexplained Trump administration hold on construction of a state-federal project aimed at preventing invasive carp from reaching the Great Lakes was abruptly lifted this week, hours after a call to President Donald Trump by Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The Army Corps ...
