September 20, 2013 - 11:45am
Duluth, Minn. and Superior, near where the proposed terminal would have been constructed.
Randen Pederson (CC-BY)
Plans for a $20 million oil terminal in Superior are on hold, and the project looks dead in the water. That means oil tankers won’t be sailing from western Lake Superior to the east coast. The oil terminal would have shipped crude from the ever-expanding Bakken oil fields in North...
September 20, 2013 - 1:00am
People enrolled in BadgerCare will get a letter alerting them to changes in eligibility for the program on Monday. More than 90,000 BadgerCare recipients are getting the letters telling them their income may be too high to stay on the program. Medicaid director Brett Davis says the letters will include...
September 20, 2013 - 1:00am
A map is now on display at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point that records the ancient Menominee tribal names for central Wisconsin. The Menominee Place Names Map was created by merging modern satellite imagery with the ancient Menominee language. “We've put together a map showing the indigenous place names for lakes,...
September 20, 2013 - 1:00am
Health care navigators won't be available in La Crosse and much of southwest Wisconsin.
Public Hall (CC-BY-SA)
The federally funded navigators that help people understand health care reform will not be available in all parts of Wisconsin. As part of the Affordable Care Act, six organizations received a combined $1 million last month to help Wisconsin residents understand the new federal marketplace. The reach of these so-called...
September 19, 2013 - 2:35pm
The new prohibition on legally drunk bartenders in Neenah was opposed by tavern owners in the community.
Tavallai (CC-BY-ND)
The City of Neenah has passed an ordinance that would prohibit bartenders from getting legally drunk on the job. The original proposal would have prohibited bartenders from drinking at all while serving, but City Council Member Tim Hamblin says the ordinance that passed last night reflects a compromise the city...
September 19, 2013 - 2:05pm
Wisconsin's unemployment rate dropped slightly as the state added an estimated 7,300 private-sector jobs in August. The 7,300 jobs added in August comes from a monthly survey of employers that's had some big ups and downs this year. The survey has been criticized, sometimes even ridiculed by the Walker administration...
September 19, 2013 - 1:53pm
Members of Congress from Wisconsin are once again trying to extend benefits to domestic partners of federal employees. A new bipartisan bill would give federal employees and their same-sex domestic partners health and life insurance, family and medical leave benefits, and government pensions – all benefits that married couples receive...
September 19, 2013 - 1:30pm
Wisconsin's Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has unveiled new inspection stickers to go on gas pumps and other approved weighing and measuring devices. DATCP unveiled the new baby blue sticker bearing the date of inspection on gas pumps at a station off of busy Highway 41 north...
September 19, 2013 - 12:38pm
A University of Wisconsin-Superior poll of Ashland and Iron county residents has found that most people are opposed to a proposed open pit mine. The survey – the first to focus on the counties where the mine would be – was conducted this summer by UW-Superior economics professor Zamira Simkins...
September 19, 2013 - 8:30am
Credit Michael Leland / WPR News
Many trees, especially those newly-planted, took serious damage during the summer drought in 2012.
The DNR is offering emergency funding to landowners who lost newly planted trees due to drought. For older trees drought can be tough, forcing them to go dormant and drop their leaves, but for young seedlings droughts are deadly. That’s why the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has set aside...
