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Wisconsin entrepreneurs, inventors and creative thinkers are encouraged to submit their products, services or organizations for recognition at the second annual Wisconsin Innovation Awards. Nominations are open through May 15. The Wisconsin Innovation Awards highlight ideas and...

WILLMAR, Minn. -- The train derailment/fire in West Virginia is another reminder of the importance of continued training for emergency responders....

Veteran Pierce County Fair Groundskeeper Kenny Hines of Ellsworth died Thursday. He was 69. Hines was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in the late spring of 2013. In advance of a “celebrity roast” his friends and family staged for him late that summer, the Herald published...

Police were sent for a burglary alert at the River Falls Public Library, 140 Union St., just before 3 a.m. Friday.

A foreign exchange student was killed, and two of his teenage hockey teammates were injured in one-vehicle crash in northwest Wisconsin. Tim Zhanibekovich, 16, of Frederic died when the pickup truck in which he was a passenger crashed Tuesday night on Hwy. 48. He and two other...

WASHINGTON -- In 2013, Marcus Beyer and his wife, Kate Brooke-Beyer, took a trip to New Orleans to get away. With a few hours of free time on their hands one day, they opted to stop into a World War II museum there. Francis Brooke of Hastings, Minn., Brooke-Beyer’s father, had...

February is Wisconsin's coldest month, and we're about to get a shivering reminder of that. The National Weather Service says wind-chill factors...

Most schools in Milwaukee, Racine, and Kenosha counties were closed Monday after the region got more than a foot of snow during the weekend.

Presentations were made at the annual recognition and awards banquet of the Ellsworth Area Ambulance Service (EAAS) late last month. The program read: "We are honored and proud to recognize the staff, families, associates and community of EAAS through the 2014 recognition and awards...

A group of people gathered in the River Falls Public Library's downstairs meeting room Tuesday evening to discuss social justice. The public forum discussed equal justice, starting at 5 p.m. Pierce County Sheriff Nancy Hove spoke about equal justice in the area communities. Hove...

The completion of CTH W reconstruction and the possible beginning of an upgrade to CTH V are on the projects list for the Pierce County Highway Department this coming season.

UW-Stevens Point has the world's largest trivia contest, and Lawrence University of Appleton has the nation's oldest college event.