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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.

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

Wisconsin and Minnesota teenagers with an interest in math and science can explore engineering when they attend a weeklong summer camp on the UW-River Falls campus. UWRF and the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Engineering will host Camp Badger Exploring Engineering™...

Brooklyn Park Police say the manner death in the case of a 6-year-old girl found with a jump rope around her neck at the end of December will...

PRESCOTT – Prescott Mayor David Hovel used the first Chamber of Commerce meeting for 2015 to give an update to members about what’s happening on the local government level. Hovel started his speech Thursday at Great Rivers Printing talking about what happened in 2014, which...

The conservation friendly housing cluster that makes up the River Falls EcoVillage has been recognized in the trade magazine GreenBuilder as a winner of one its “Green Home of the Year Awards.”

At least 30 cats have been removed from a mobile home in Fond du Lac County after a 79-year-old resident was taken to a hospital with complications...

When they’re nursed back from death’s door and can finally sleep soundly, they purr like tiny kittens. Their tails are thin and stubbier...

Merlin Blaisdell’s career has taken turns he never would have expected growing up in rural Pierce County.