The Northwoods of Wisconsin, with its rough logging boom towns and frontier justice, saw its own share of gun smoke and violence in the early 1900s.

They’ll meet different people acting as historical figures of significance in Rhinelander’s history.

In Wisconsin’s story, where tall pines once fed the logging booms, the rivers also carried life from forest to farm. Flowing from its headwaters in Forest County, the Wolf River connects the Northwood’s to central Wisconsin, and gave rise to more than timber, it gave us the Wolf River Apple, a variety that looms larger than the rest, quite literally.

Several organizations and community members are working together to build a skate park at Hodag Park in Rhinelander.The skate park has been designed. Now the community is looking to raise $1.5 million to build it.

From the iron hills of Hurley, Wisconsin, came a man who waged war not with weapons, but with secrets. Leon Lawrence Lewis, born in Hurley in 1888 to German Jewish immigrants, would one day be called the “spymaster of Los Angeles.”

Artists in Ironwood are painting three murals on buildings throughout the city that focus on species of ecological significance to the region.

Artists in Ironwood are painting three murals on buildings throughout the city that focus on species of ecological significance to the region.

Native American Flutist Darren Thompson grew up in Lac du Flambeau and now travels the country sharing his music.He’ll be performing in Minocqua this Friday at the Community Gym at the Minocqua Public Library.WXPR’s Katie Thoresen spoke with Thompson as he was in between shows at the Crazy Horse Memorial in South Dakota.

ArtStart in Rhinelander is moving forward with plans to install a new boiler.It’s calling on the community to help reach their fundraising goals.

Wisconsin will be getting a state film office and will start offering tax credits to filmmakers.