The Burnett County Board has passed a one-year moratorium on large-scale farms with 1,000 or more animal units. The move comes after Cumberland, LLC announced plans to build a $20 million farm for up to 26,000 hogs in the town of Trade Lake earlier this year.Burnett County Board Chair Don Ta…
On a hot July day, Theron O’Connor gazed at the shoreline of his lakefront property — what’s left of it — just a few miles outside Cornucopia on the south shore of Lake Superior. He and his five siblings have been coming to his grandfather’s cabin here since they were kids. A Swedish immigra…
Canadian energy firm Enbridge Inc. said it’s open to rerouting a 66-year-old pipeline outside of a northern Wisconsin tribe’s reservation. Enbridge said in a statement Thursday that it’s "surprised and disappointed" by the Bad River tribe's legal action.The Band River Band of Lake Superior C…
Eleven rural hospitals in Wisconsin have stopped delivering babies in the last decade, according to a new report by the Wisconsin Office of Rural Health.
Two Great Lakes are seeing the highest water levels ever recorded. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Lake Erie broke its previous record set back in 1986 while Lake Ontario surpassed a record set in 2017. "The records on Lake St. Clair, Lake Erie and Lake Ontario are the highest levels f…
A festival founded during the 1980s farm crisis hopes to highlight current hardships faced by Wisconsin farmers.
