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Wisconsin justices to decide if jails can hold immigrants for ICE

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A divided Wisconsin Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take a case brought by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of an immigrant rights group arguing that it is illegal for local jails to hold immigrant detainees at the request of federal authorities. The ...

IM updates marijuana rules to allow no new growing facilities

IRON MOUNTAIN — New licenses for marijuana growing facilities will no longer be issued in Iron Mountain under city ordinance amendments adopted Monday without objection. By the council’s action, the two existing growers and processors on North Stephenson Avenue — Rize Cannabis and ...

Back to the Present

This week’s Back to the Present, provided by the Jake Menghini Historical Museum, is a view of Main Street in Norway. The undated photograph shows off the downtown lit up for Christmas. The annual Christmas in Norway tradition is set this weekend. On Friday, the event will kick off with ...

Wisconsin’s gun season deer harvest dips slightly

Wisconsin hunters harvested fewer bucks but more antlerless deer than a year ago during the recently completed nine-day gun season, according to preliminary figures released Tuesday by the Department of Natural Resources. Hunters registered 182,084 deer during the 2025 gun deer season, ...

UP resident Hasenfus, key figure in 1980s Iran-Contra affair, dies

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Eugene Hasenfus, who played a key role in unraveling the Iran-Contra affair after his CIA-backed supply plane was shot down over Nicaragua in 1986, has died. Hasenfus died Nov. 26 in Menominee after a nine-year battle with cancer, according to his obituary from the ...