Portage County

A news release from the Portage County Sheriff’s Office says a call came in just after 1:00 a.m. from a utility worker who was investigating a power outage that began about an hour earlier.

The death of a young man in the Portage County Town of Hull is being investigated as suspicious

A destructive plant fungus has been found in Langlade and Portage Counties, and could spread to other parts of Northern Wisconsin. Late blight affects…