Last October, the end of the school year seemed a long way off for Rhinelander mother Leanne Vigue Miranda.“I live day by day because, otherwise, that…

Last week, Diane Dodge closed her doors for the last time as the owner of Diane’s Frame Shoppe in downtown Rhinelander.She’s owned and operated the frame…

Blades of helicopters slice incessantly through the western Wisconsin sky.“Security Forces is finding people in a search and rescue exercise. They’re…

Full hides of brown and black leather are draped over a cart and wheeled by a worker from place to place in the maze-like Weinbrenner Shoe Company factory…

Hans Breitenmoser Jr.’s mother and father came to northern Wisconsin as Swiss immigrants, searching for the American Dream.“My parents started here in…

Visitors to the shop floor at AirPro Fan in Rhinelander are greeted by a wall of sound and activity.Forklifts dart here and there, welders send sparks…

Walk into any restaurant in downtown Minocqua or Eagle River, and chances are it’s understaffed.“If you drive around town, you’ll see pretty much every…

A florist cuts lush, green stems to the proper bouquet length in a well-lit work area.Nearby, her coworker snips sharp thorns off of a rose about to go…

On Tuesday, Joe Rivas walked up the creaky, wooden ramp to the hayloft of a decades-old, white-painted barn near Phillips.Inside, hundreds of harvested…

Laura Boll, her husband, and their two young children thought the Northwoods would provide them a brief refuge.They came to stay at their vacation home…