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Wisconsin had its third record-breaking year for tourism with $25.8 billion in total economic impact in 2024.Many Northwoods counties also had record-breaking years again, but there are signs back-to-back recent low-snow winters are having an impact.
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A government watchdog group in Wisconsin has filed a lawsuit seeking to prohibit billionaire Elon Musk from ever again offering cash payments to voters in the battleground state like he did in this spring’s hotly contested Supreme Court race.
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A new study highlights the high price of incarceration, and says the annual total cost to families of Americans behind bars is nearly $350 billion
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On Friday, the grave of the unknown soldier at Pine Grove Cemetery in Wausau was exhumed
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Oneida County needs more than 200 rental units and more than 1,000 owner occupied units in the next five years. That’s the big take away from the recently completed housing study.
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The National Park Service says the causes of death are unknown at this time.
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Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice urged a federal judge to reject a motion filed by Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan seeking to dismiss the charges against her, saying doing so would be “unprecedented" and allow judges to be above the law
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The crash happened at the intersection of Highway K and Harshaw Road in the town of Cassian
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Being discussed would be making Brown Street one-way between Anderson Street and Frederick Street
Tuesday, August 26 at 6:00 P.M.