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Marinette Moose Lodge hosts annual haunted house, trail

MARINETTE — The Marinette Moose Lodge’s annual haunted house and haunted trail to raise money for local charities will be from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday. The Haunted House is a guided tour through up to 28 different themed rooms. The average tour takes about 20 minutes, with about a 15-minute wait. The Haunted trail is a self-paced walk over a 1,500-feet-long lighted path of wood chips through the woods. There are more than 30 different scenes are displayed on the trail. Admission is $15 and attendees will receive an R.I.P. Pass to save $5 on all future admissions. Last ...

Governor Thompson State Park sets 25th-anniversary celebration

CRIVITZ, Wis. — A 25th-anniversary celebration will take place Saturday at Governor Thompson State Park near Crivitz. The park will have free admission all day with an open house layout. There will be access to all the buildings, along with a short speaking event at 1 p.m. at the Woods Lake Shelter. They will serve cake and attendees can enjoy all of the old and new photos of the park. Some small events will take place for kids, along with nature programs for all ages and Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources staff will be present to answer questions. This event is being ...

A whooping crane dies of avian flu at Wisconsin refuge

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Ducky is dead. The International Crane Foundation announced Monday that Ducky, an endangered female whooping crane the foundation planned to release into the wilds of Wisconsin this fall, died on Thursday after becoming infected with Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza, a ...

Wisconsin Planned Parenthood pauses abortions amid Medicaid cuts

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin will stop scheduling patients for abortions starting next week as it works to find a way to provide the service in the face of Medicaid funding cuts in President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, the nonprofit said Thursday. Abortion ...

Legislation would give state aid for generating aviation fuel from wood

Lawmakers from northern and northcentral Wisconsin are circulating a bill supporting Johnson Timber Corp. in Hayward to build a processing plant for aviation fuel made from logging debris. The legislation would reward the company with a $60 million tax credit and access to $150 million in ...

Trump loyalist Tiffany enters Wisconsin governor’s race

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A fierce loyalist of President Donald Trump who represents a broad swath of Wisconsin's rural north woods in Congress entered the governor's race in the battleground state Tuesday, shaking up the Republican primary. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany becomes the front-runner over ...