Oneida county

The town of Cassian is doubling down on its objection to a recovery center designed for Native youth struggling with substance abuse.

The Oneida County Board is clarifying who is responsible for handling unsolicited inquiries regarding mining on county owned land.It comes as some mining companies reached out to some supervisors regarding the Lynne Deposit in western Oneida County.

Few people know that the Northwoods was once exposed to intense radiation for scientific research amid fears of nuclear war. Fifty-one years ago, a site near Rhinelander, Wisconsin, was developed to study radiation’s effects on northern forest ecosystems, known as the Enterprise Radiation Forest Project.

For the first time since the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport was built, the primary runway is getting a major overhaul.

The Oneida County Health Department is putting out a Pertussis Alert.The health department says there’s been one confirmed case of whooping cough reported this week.

The Transfer Station building itself was damaged and some temporary repairs have been made.

Early this morning, there was a fire at the Oneida County Solid Waste Transfer Station on Highway K, west of Rhinelander.

Whenever talk turns to military tanks in the Northwoods, one story still echoes through the forest: the time a mighty tank was swallowed by the infamous McNaughton Swamp, some 65 years ago.

The Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s plans to build an adolescent recovery and wellness center in Cassian were derailed when the Oneida County Planning and Zoning Committee rejected their permit after opposition from the local town government.

Just a few years ago, the very existence of Town Line Lake Park was in jeopardy.