WASHINGTON ISLAND, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin hunter died after apparently accidentally shooting himself during the weekend opener of the gun-deer season. The Washington Island Police...
Bear hunters in Wisconsin reported a good season in 2020 with an increase in bear numbers from 2019. Preliminary data from the Wisconsin Department of Natural...
Turning trash into invaluable information, the Wisconsin DNR launched a waste characterization study at Wisconsin landfills. This past September, SCS Engineers began collecting and sorting samples...
The problems with PFAS chemicals have now gotten the attention of the Wisconsin DNR. A Natural Resources policy board voted yesterday to restrict the use...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Mining applicants would have to pay more for permits and licenses, supply more detailed plans to state regulators, and work around a...
The city of La Crosse is concerned about well water contamination in nearly 130 homes. The Wisconsin DNR recommended La Crosse investigate contamination near the airport after...
You don’t see it often. Even less so in Wisconsin — bipartisan legislation. The state got that last year in restricting firefighting foam containing PFAS, compounds...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A University of Minnesota botanist discovered a new invasive grass in Wisconsin last month, state wildlife officials announced Tuesday. Wisconsin Department of...
Congress is helping people around the country preserve and restore public lands, including wildlife refuges. La Crosse Congressman Ron Kind has voted for a bill to...
Should Wisconsin’s gun-deer season be longer? Hunters may weigh in on that question at the next Wisconsin Conservation Congress meetings in April. Marc Schultz, the La...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin wildlife officials agreed Wednesday to ask gun deer hunters this spring whether they would support wholesale changes to the sport, including...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The board of the state Department of Natural Resources on Wednesday authorized the agency to start drafting new water quality standards for...
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Authorities say an elk was found dead in northern Wisconsin after it ate corn put out by a landowner in a misguided attempt...
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Minnesota manufacturing plant with repeated pollution violations says it has shifted some of its operations to a facility in Wisconsin. Water Gremlin...
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources wants to test dozens of wastewater treatment systems for a specific type of chemical. La Crosse has made the list....
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The state Department of Natural Resources is asking wastewater treatment plants to test for polyfluoroalkyl pollution. The substances, also known as PFAS,...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The Wisconsin Conservation Congress has rejected the idea of paying bounties for deer carcasses infected with chronic wasting disease. The congress gauged...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A legislative committee has decided to allow Wisconsin wildlife officials to lift restrictions on the state’s elk hunt. Current regulations allow an...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An administrative law judge has invalided a key environmental permit for the Kohler Company’s new luxury golf course along Lake Michigan in...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The leader of the Wisconsin Senate’s sporting heritage committee spent more than three hours interrogating Gov. Tony Evers’ pick for Department of...