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Local news for Tuesday, February 28, 2023.

Most trees are either deciduous, and drop their leaves in fall, or are evergreen, and hang onto their leaves for more than one season. The evergreen trees tend to be in more stressed environments, stressed by either cold temperatures or low water availability.

Local news for Friday, April 15, 2022.

The 2022 Ojibwe Spring Fishing Season will be starting soon.

Rhinelander’s Social Security Office opens for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Then, the Verso paper mill has officially been bought by a Scandinavian papermaker. Mayor Shane Blaser hopes the company will restart the idled mill. Wisconsin’s Supreme Court adopts GOP-drawn legislative maps following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to reject Evers’ maps. Finally, birders are delighted as hundreds of redpolls descend on the Northwoods.

Apostle Islands National Lakeshore is including indigenous place names in its materials and education. Then, new data shows a sharp increase in Type 2 diabetes among children in Wisconsin and doctors think COVID-19 could be a factor. And a new report finds declining wages in the construction industry, fueled by wage theft and payroll fraud, are pushing more construction workers into social-support programs.

The Central Wisconsin Airport will no longer require masks for employees or passengers after a federal judge struck down the CDC’s mask mandate. Then, absenteeism rates are climbing in Wisconsin schools. At the same time, more students have reported experiencing poor mental health since the pandemic began. Finally, Wisconsin offers dozens of financial aid programs for students looking to go to college, but a new report finds funding for those programs has stalled in recent years.