Mike Simonson

  • Higher Ed Striving For Greater Native American Grad Rates

    Enrollment of Native American students in the University of Wisconsin jumped 50 percent, according to the latest available figures.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Jauch Calls Recall Group Disreputable

    The effort to recall State Senator Bob Jauch has stopped, at least for now. The news comes one week short of the deadline to get signatures to trigger an election.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Northern DNR Deer Baiting, Feeding Ban Starts

    The DNR will begin a ban on baiting and feeding deer in four northwestern Wisconsin counties. They hope it will stop the spread of chronic wasting disease there.

    The ban in Polk, Burnett, Washburn and Barron Counties kicks in Thursday. It comes after CWD was found in a deer killed last fall near Shell Lake, the first case of the deadly infectious disease found in northern Wisconsin.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Ashland Industries Union Approves Offer

    Striking union members at Ashland Industries voted to approve a new offer Friday afternoon.

    Five weeks after walking off the job of the earth moving equipment maker, the International Association of Machinists decided to go back to work.

    That according to Ashland Industries Chief Financial Officer Bob Eder. The vote total was not disclosed.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Ashland Industries Strike Talks Adjourn

    Talks to end a strike at Ashland Industries may be close to a settlement, as the company considers a union offer.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Nine Strikers Cross Ashland Industries Picket Line

    Some union picketers have crossed their own picket line and gone back to work Monday at Ashland Industries.

    The company says nine of the 43 striking International Association of Machinists returned to work after walking off the job April 1. Ashland Industries Chief Financial Officer Bob Eder says this strike could have been avoided.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Red Cliff Barrels Project Getting Attention

    [CORRECTED2] The Department of Defense is funding its most expensive munitions dump clean-up on Native American territory, and its in the ceded area of northern Wisconsin tribes. 

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Red Cliff To Raise 70 Cold War Barrels From Lake

    Almost two decades after seven Department of Defense mystery barrels were recovered from Lake Superior, 10 times that number will be pulled up this summer.

    In a statement released today, the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa says it is working with the DoD to lift those barrels from sites between Lester and Knife River along the North Shore.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Ashland Current To Go Dormant At April's End

    One of the region’s only on-line local news service is either going to change hands, or shutdown.

    Two operators of the Ashland Current are leaving Ashland. Managing Editor Andrew Broman is taking a newspaper editor’s job in Minnesota at the Litchfield Independent Review.

    By: Mike Simonson
  • Ashland BIA Ready For Wildfires

    If a wildfire breaks out in northwestern Wisconsin’s blowdown region, part of the firefighters responding could be from tribes around the country.

    By: Mike Simonson