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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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wisconsin unemployment rate drops to 3.4% in May

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 ...

Enbridge says 500 at work on Line 5 reroute in Wisconsin

Canadian energy firm Enbridge said hundreds of workers are on site in northern Wisconsin even as legal challenges remain ongoing in its plan to reroute the Line 5 oil and gas pipeline. Crews are clearing trees from the project’s right-of-way and laying down large wooden mats for temporary ...