After decades of work, fishery managers say lake trout have fully recovered in most of Lake Superior after the invasive, fish-killing sea lamprey decimated their numbers. The Lake Superior Committee of the Great Lakes Fishery Commission, which is made up of state, tribal and Canadian natural ...
WAUPACA, Wis. (AP) — A drunken driver who was traveling the wrong way on a Wisconsin highway was sentenced Friday to more than 35 years in prison for a crash that killed four siblings in another vehicle. “It’s incomprehensible to this court to imagine losing four children,” Judge Raymond Huber said. Scott Farmer, 48, of Neenah had pleaded no contest to homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle in the crash last December in Waupaca County. Police said Farmer was driving the wrong way when his truck crashed into an SUV in Weyauwega, about 100 miles northwest of ...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Marquette University officials announced Wednesday that Kimo Ah Yun will serve as the school’s next president. Ah Yun had served as acting president since June, when President Michael Lovell died in Rome after a three-year battle with cancer. Ah Yun becomes only the second lay person to serve as the Jesuit university’s president. Lovell was the first, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. Ah Yun joined Marquette in 2016 as dean of the school’s J. William and Mary Diederich College of Communication. He was promoted to provost and executive vice ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A beloved Wisconsin tradition begins anew this weekend as hunters take to the woods for the start of the state’s nine-day gun deer season. The season opens at dawn Saturday and closes on the evening of Sunday, Dec. 1. Hunters are looking to rebound after a tepid ...
GREEN LAKE, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man who faked his own drowning this summer so he could abandon his wife and three children has been communicating with authorities daily from Eastern Europe, even telling them how he did it, but has not committed to returning home, a sheriff said ...
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Students from areas across the state and nation will present their findings at the Tiny Earth in Titletown research symposium in the Lambeau Field Atrium from 5 to 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 6. The event connects students, parents, faculty and community members from the region and across the country to showcase the collaborative and innovative efforts of students working together to mitigate the global public health crisis of antibiotic resistance. Registration for this community-based symposium is free and open to the public. Wisconsin students, including ...
