When it’s Wisconsin in summertime, what comes to mind more than the topic of road salting?
It’s no secret that the divide between small farms and big farms is a deeply contentious one.
CHIPPEWA FALLS — For the first time in three years, area students returned to the Past Passed Here celebration in Chippewa Falls. The annual e…
Wisconsin order limits domestic bird movement
More than a football field’s length of shoreline at the Lumbering Hall of Fame Park is the focus of a native planting project that kicked off …
The Lentz Steam Engine currently stationed at Stout-Knapp Park in Rice Lake will soon be chugging down the road to a new home at Hungry Hollow…
Farmers aren’t getting the running start to the 2022 growing season as they might have wanted, but there’s still time for Wisconsin agricultur…
American agriculture is coming off a pair of banner years in 2020 and 2021, which could provide many farmers the wherewithal to hedge their be…
If you notice a neighbor’s lawn is starting to look a bit shaggy over the next couple of weeks, it may not be because they’ve become too lazy …
When Rob Mattison was a boy watching “The Sheriff Bob Show” on WEAU-TV — what us Chippewa Valley kids called Channel 13 — he couldn’t have dre…
ALTOONA — Jim Maier has always enjoyed good barbecue.
In April of 1976, President Abraham Lincoln was felled by an assassin’s bullet while attending a play at Menomonie’s Mabel Tainter Memorial Theater.
Climate change and habitat loss from big agriculture are combining to swat down global insect populations, with each problem making the other …
Daniel Ruefman is unassuming enough. A professor at UW-Stout, Ruefman has a big voice, and the kind of confidence that comes from presiding ov…
A large well preserved pterosaur was found on the limestone shore of the Isle of Skye as described by an account in the New Scientist. The fos…
George “Red” Barr lived with adversity through much of his life, but still had the courage to persevere and overcome the challenges he faced.
I began my COVID-19 journal in mid-March 2020 to chronicle what it was like living through a worldwide pandemic. On St. Patrick’s Day I dresse…
Ashland’s Kay Price-Lee guesses she has sewn upwards of 500 baby blankets over the past 10 or 12 years, giving most away to friends and family…
While my family and I have cherished our time in Eau Claire, it’s time for us to say goodbye. The boxes are packed, the papers are signed; all…
Contrary to the woeful baying by Big Agbiz, the United States–and any nation with enough money–will not run out of food this year. This can be…
CHIPPEWA FALLS — A capital campaign to pay for five new buildings at the Northern Wisconsin State Fair has already reached 80% of their $6 mil…
The mercury was dancing with 50-degree temperatures, a winter’s worth of snow melting and running down off the Wathkes’ ridge in ephemeral str…
ABBOTSFORD — Across the United States, small dairy farms are struggling to keep afloat in a rapidly changing world.
With everything from streaming platforms to shampoo-conditioners being bought and resupplied with subscriptions, it’s only natural that meat C…
I’ve been dumped by another septic guy, and man it stings.
One winter morning in 1969, 15-year-old Patrick McBride of Wauwatosa opened the Milwaukee Sentinel to find his future staring back at him. On …
In the modern age, every business has to have some sort of digital presence to survive. Farms are no exception.
No matter where or how far people go in life, some folks will always hear the call of the rural heartland drawing them home.