Maritime Disasters

When the U.S. Navy formally decommissioned the USS Milwaukee in September, the juncture marked the end of an eight-year journey plagued by problems nearly from its start in Wisconsin. The […]

Gov. Tony Evers, together with the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. (WEDC) and the Department of Revenue, announced more than $46 million to support an estimated 9,300 small businesses across Wisconsin. […]

Twenty-six people fishing on Lake Superior were rescued when an ice floe broke away from the Minnesota shoreline, stranding them in frigid weather. The Duluth Fire Department was called Tuesday […]

First responders worked to rescue dozens of stranded ice fishermen from three different spots near Sturgeon Bay. A total of 66 people were retrieved after the ice floes detached Thursday […]

The Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing has identified the pilot who died as the result of an F-16 crash Tuesday in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Air Force Capt. Durwood […]

Progress is slowly being made as National Guard and county crews have been clearing trees and debris from Saxon Harbor after a July storm sent Oronto Creek roaring through its […]

Enbridge Energy will pay $177 million in fines, unreimbursed cleanup costs and safety measures for the 2010 Kalamazoo River spill in a settlement reached with the U.S. Department of Justice […]

Wisconsin Emergency Management officials are working with several agencies and counties to address washed out roads and flooding in northern Wisconsin. As much as 10 inches of rain fell overnight […]

Forty years ago, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior around 17 miles off the coast of Whitefish Point. All 29 crew members were lost, but their stories live on. […]