Outdoors

At the end of August, Sal, a neighborhood couple and I decided to re-explore a part of northern Wisconsin we hadn’t visited in several years. Tom and Linda Koch, who live across the road, had talked about taking a couple of days, driving up through Hayward, then onto the Ashland/Bayfield...

The City of New Richmond recently announced that it has been selected to receive a $10,000 grant from the Tony Hawk Foundation. Established by Tony Hawk, one of the most successful professional skateboarders of all time, the Tony Hawk Foundation works with municipalities and community...

A vocal public weighed in on the latest developments for the Little Falls Lake dam project -- most of whom supported plans proposed by the Department of Natural Resources. Dan Baumann, DNR secretary’s director for western Wisconsin, said 50 comments were received during a month-long...

Following a new high for attendance during the January Friends of Willow River and Kinnickinnic State Parks “Learn to Snowshoe” session at Willow River State Park, snowshoeing instructor Rita Thofern couldn’t be more excited for the second session that will take place at Kinnickinnic...

A proposed mining project in Upper Michigan would affect northeast Wisconsin. Officials recently held a public hearing that drew split opinions about a plan by Aquila Resources to open a gold, silver, copper, and zinc mine just north of the Wisconsin-UP border north of Marinette. The...

MADISON -- A bill to give longer prison sentences to repeat drunk drivers has been unanimously endorsed by the state Assembly's judiciary committee. It makes four-time operating while intoxicated arrest a felony instead of a misdemeanor, and it raises maximum sentences for up to...