It’s going to be harder to predict when severe weather will peak in Wisconsin this summer, after an unusual spring that had Mother Nature playing “precipitation ping-pong,” according to the Wisconsin State Climatology Office. “Our office has nicknamed it — where we seem to go back ...
MENOMINEE — The M&M Area Community Foundation has completed its 2025–2026 scholarship season, awarding 79 scholarships totaling $195,045 to students attending 14 schools across Marinette, Menominee and Oconto counties — the foundation’s most successful scholarship year to date, and the fourth consecutive year of record-setting growth. Just three years ago, MMACF received 136 scholarship applications. This spring, that number reached 484. The dollars awarded have grown with equal momentum: from $108,000 in 2023, to $133,000 in 2024, to $177,000 in 2025, and nearly $200,000 this ...
As Congress investigates a federal law from the 1960s, Wisconsin Republicans find themselves on different sides of the issue — and the Green Bay Packers are on edge. The House Judiciary Committee last week took testimony about the Sports Broadcasting Act of 1961, questioning whether it ...
For 20 years, Shawn Sitar has studied a part of Lake Superior he has never seen. Sitar, a fisheries research biologist with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, studies fish at the deepest spot on the largest freshwater lake on earth. It’s an area known as Superior Maximus, with ...
The Trump administration U.S. Justice Department has no authority at all to demand Wisconsin voter records it has sought in federal court, the Wisconsin Justice Department said in federal court papers filed Thursday. In addition, Attorney General Josh Kaul and assistant AG Charlotte Gibson ...
Wisconsin’s unemployment rate dropped to 3.4% in May, down from 3.5% in April. The state also saw 5,800 more people employed year over year while the labor force participation rate remained at 64.4% in what Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development Office of Economic Advisors Section ...
