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Local news for Thursday, May 26, 2022.

Wisconsin has a 173-year-old abortion ban that hasn't been enforced in decades. But if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down the decision in Roe v. Wade, that law will trigger, criminalizing abortions in the state. Then, COVID oral antiviral medications are now widely available. And Rhinelander students are making sidewalk art that will only appear when it rains. It’s the first project of the city’s recently created public arts commission.

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Evidence revealed at the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection shows that an aide for U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson told former Vice President Mike Pence’s staff that the Republican from Wisconsin wanted to hand-deliver fake elector votes from Wisconsin and Michigan. Then, Gov. Tony Evers issued an executive order yesterday banning gasoline price gouging in Wisconsin. And Eagle River’s downtown is taking off. In the last two years it has seen 26 new businesses.

The Northwoods is under a heat advisory from 3 p.m. today until early tomorrow morning. Temperatures will range from 90 to 97 degrees with heat indexes close to 100. A sound garden in Land O’ Lakes lets people immerse themselves in nature, music and art. And Portage County hosted its second Juneteenth celebration to commemorate and celebrate the end of slavery.