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Wisconsin News

Storms sweep through region

Thunderstorms early Wednesday evening delivered heavy rains in the Norway area, flooding downtown streets for a period of time. Hail was also reported in the region. There was flash flooding in Green Bay, Wis., as well, with the National Weather Service issued a severe thunderstorm watch for ...

Wisconsin deals with spring of ‘precipitation ping-pong’

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 ...

Record-breaking scholarship season for M&M Foundation

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 ...

Congress looking at law that’s helped Packers for decades

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 still ...

Reaching deepest Superior for the first time in 40 years

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 ...

Appeals court called on to reject demand for Wisconsin’s voter lists

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 ...