Katie Thoresen
News Director/Vice PresidentKatie Thoresen joined WXPR as the News Director in August of 2020. While new to WXPR, she's not new to Rhinelander. Katie previously worked for WJFW and has spent the last five years working in TV. She covers the news that matters to people in northern Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula and takes a special interest in environmental and health care related stories.
Katie is happy to be back in the Northwoods after living in Oregon for two years. She grew up in Illinois and has spent her entire life visiting the area. Katie is a graduate of Central Michigan University. Outside of work you can find her on the hiking trails or out on the water.
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ArtStart went to Rhinelander city council earlier this month asking for help paying more than $175,000 for a new boiler. -
Holloway will be talking about how science supports air quality management and how wildfire smoke is changing that at May’s Science on Tap Minocqua. -
The Lac du Flambeau Police Department gives an update on the search for a missing woman. A car chase in Vilas County ends in a crash and an arrest. Drug Take Back Day can help keep pharmaceuticals out of the environment. And, regional climate centers reopen across the nation. -
While many at hospitals and police stations are available year-round, there is a big push to collect medication Saturday as part of the National Drug Take Back Day. -
The Vilas County Sheriff’s Office says deputies responded to a welfare check in the Township of Lincoln around 5:00 p.m. -
Lac du Flambeau Police have been conducting grid searches, deployed drones and airplanes, and searched with specially trained canines to find Melissa Beson. -
The City of Rhinelander and Nicolet College have begun talking about a municipal well being installed on the campus -
As temperatures finally start to warm up in the Northwoods, the risk for wildfires also rises. -
Birds are migrating through Wisconsin now through May. -
The Wisconsin DNR says there’s been positive tests of the HPAI virus in dead flocks of mergansers, swans, and geese. These have mostly been in the southern portion of the state and along the shores of Lake Michigan.
