AURORA, Wis. — Northeast Wisconsin Technical College will offer a new class at its Aurora site to help area residents earn a Wisconsin Class B Commercial driver's license. Registration for the course is currently open. It starts with an online theory-based portion that is self-paced. The ...

LANSING, Mich. — State Sen. Ed McBroom is pushing to rename a portion of U.S. 8 after Bacco Construction founder Medio J. Bacco, who reportedly did that section as the first paved roadway in the Upper Peninsula. McBroom recently testified before the Senate Committee on Transportation and ...

Under a massive banner reading “Fighting for American farmers,” staunch allies of President Donald Trump gathered Friday at a farm near Chippewa Falls to tout the president’s agriculture policies. Trump told the gathered crowd Friday that farmers’ costs will fall after the end of ...

FELCH TOWNSHIP — Six Mile Lake again has nesting loons, raising the possibility a chick might be produced for a second straight year. While scanning the small side pool where the lake flows into Six Mile Creek, I thought I caught sight of a loon in the water. That, to my embarrassment, ...

HOUGHTON COUNTY — The body of a 57-year-old Hancock was recovered Wednesday morning after an apparent drowning in Hancock Township. Michigan State Police from the Calumet post responded about 9:30 a.m. Wednesday to a report of a body in Lake Superior near McLain State Park and the breakwall ...

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents approved a plan on Thursday to increase tuition across the state’s public university system for the fourth time in as many years. The Board of Regents voted 15-1 to approve the proposal. It will raise in-state undergraduate tuition by 2% and ...