Trade

The Biden administration is urging a federal appeals court to reverse a lower court order that would shut down an oil and gas pipeline crossing the Bad River tribe’s reservation within three years.

Ice cover on the Great Lakes reached a record low on New Year’s Day, and open water made smooth sailing for the latest departure of an oceangoing vessel ever recorded in the Port of Duluth-Superior. On New Year’s Day, ice cover across the Great Lakes was next to nothing, averaging less than .4 percent. That’s…

Northern Wisconsin businesses face many of the same challenges as the rest of the state, according to a pair of regional economic development leaders. Sheldon Johnson and Tommy Wartman lead two partner organizations of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, a state agency tasked with driving business growth. Johnson oversees Spooner-based Visions Northwest in the state’s…

In her role as executive director of the Platteville Business Incubator, Kate Koziol said she learned there are no mistakes in the entrepreneurial world. “There’s just ideas that didn’t execute well,” Koziol says. “And you can retool it or refine it. You can always learn from something.” But, she added, rural entrepreneurs may sometimes feel…

A labor strike has shut down a major artery for transporting goods between the Great Lakes and overseas ports, leaving some oceangoing vessels stranded or waiting to enter. The strike began early Sunday after following a 72-hour notice. Hundreds of unionized workers walked off the job on Canadian portions of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway,…

Michael Witgen’s deep research of Indigenous and early North American history is evident in his 2021 book “Seeing Red: Indigenous Land, American Expansion and the Political Economy of Plunder in North America.” A finalist for this year’s Pulitzer Prize in History, the book examines colonization of a region now known as the Midwest and was…

The leader of Port Milwaukee is optimistic for its future in tourism and exports, given a recent jump in the number of cruise passengers at the port and growth opportunities with a new $40 million shipping complex. In partnership with the DeLong Company, the Agricultural Maritime Export Facility opened last month, marking the largest one-time…

An estimated $1.8 billion plan to replace a major bridge connecting Superior and Duluth will receive a $400 million boost under Wisconsin’s next two-year state budget. Wisconsin’s Republican-controlled budget-writing committee included $352.8 million in transportation bonding and $47.2 million in funding to rebuild the Blatnik Bridge. This December will mark 62 years since the bridge…

State regulators say they’re making progress on an environmental review of Enbridge’s plans to relocate Line 5 as a federal judge has ordered a partial shutdown of the oil and gas pipeline on the Bad River reservation. In 2020, the Canadian energy firm proposed rerouting its Line 5 pipeline after the Bad River Band of…

A federal judge said this week that he’s unlikely to shut down Enbridge’s Line 5 oil and gas pipeline on the Bad River reservation despite the tribe’s fears erosion from spring flooding may compromise the line’s integrity. Even so, he said a time may come when he’ll have to intervene. Last week, attorneys for the…