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A local church has seen the demand for food grow over the last decade.What started out as a way to keep one child from going hungry on the weekend has grown to help more than a hundred each school year.
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For those who need to park in handicapped spots, there's a striped area right next to those spots that are vital for getting in and out of cars
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Special state funding for mental health staff at Michigan public schools during the pandemic is ending this year, leaving schools scrambling to find ways to keep the professionals in the building.
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Planting is well underway across the Midwest, but farmers are still grappling with dry conditions that led to lower than normal corn yields last fall. It’s the third year of a near historic drought for parts of the Corn Belt.
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A federal judge has thrown out a lawsuit brought by Democrats that challenged Wisconsin’s witness requirements for absentee voting, a ruling that keeps the law in place with the presidential election six months away.
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It’s been a year since NASA kicked off an effort to provide farmers with useful information garnered from satellite images of Earth. The program includes research at two universities in the Midwest.
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An early morning fire Thursday resulted in a total loss of a house near Merrill in the town of Rock Falls
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The poll, released by the Rural Democracy Initiative, includes feedback from Wisconsin voters
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Trees for Tomorrow in Eagle River has several invasive species it’s working to remove from its campus.The work happened to align with a new program Blackwell Job Corps in Forest County is piloting.
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Tuesday, May 28th at 6:00 P.M.