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Dealer donates vehicle for transporting veterans to VA

IRON MOUNTAIN – Vehicle-deer collisions are a way of life in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula, often causing significant long-term inconvenience to drivers while they wait for repairs. However, thanks to a generous donation from Town & Country Sales, veterans at the Oscar G. ...

GOP bill would set Wisconsin wolf population number

Wisconsin Republicans on Thursday continued their yearslong effort to reverse the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource’s decision not to quantify a specific statewide goal for the state’s gray wolf population with a public hearing on a bill that would require the agency to set one. ...

More than half the US threatened with ice, snow and cold

DALLAS (AP) — Freezing rain fell in parts of Texas on Friday as a huge, dayslong winter storm began a trek that threatened to bring snow, sleet, ice, bone-chilling temperatures and extensive power outages to about half the U.S. population. Forecasters warned that catastrophic damage, ...

Michigan travel pitch draws Canadian criticism amid Trump trade tensions

(This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com.) With trade tensions between the United States and Canada already prompting a sharp decline in cross-border travel, Ontario Premier Doug Ford is ...

Man pleads no contest in Escanaba fatal stabbing

ESCANABA — A man who stabbed and killed a co-worker Aug. 13 has pleaded no contest to one count of homicide – murder in the second degree in the Delta County 47th Circuit Court. Kaw Tung, 38, was taken to court Wednesday from the Delta County Jail for arraignment. His attorney, ...