Mike Simonson

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • [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. 

  • 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.

  • 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.

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