At the end of September, the Environmental Law and Policy Center, along with 28 allied organizations, released a petition letter to the U.S. Forest Service.

Atmospheric PFAS is falling as rain even far away from industrial sites. Plus, a nonprofit has identified 42,000 places in the U.S. as possible PFAS sites.

Ambling down a path through the forest to a serene lake, Greg Krueger explains why he likes this area.“This is a really nice place. You have a really…

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin believes Rhinelander could benefit from billions of federal dollars being proposed to address PFAS contamination in water.She…

A point of land, sitting on the north side of the Vista Flowage, was Zeke Jonas’ favorite spot.Sometimes, his mother Rene Rayala said, he’d come to watch…

On a pleasant morning last week, Sara Sommer and Chris Ester paddled to the deepest point of Luna Lake, a 64-acre lake in northern Forest County…

On Monday, John Lampereur guided his white U.S. Forest Service pickup truck over bumpy dirt roads in northern Oconto County near Lakewood.“This would be…

An Oneida County committee has shot down a company’s plan to build a waste transfer facility near Rhinelander’s airport.The Planning and Development…

Steph Shaw starts the outboard motor of the small, flatbottomed boat, and takes off toward the middle of Katherine Lake in Hazelhurst.Dropping an anchor,…

Last week, ground-penetrating radar sensors glided across the grass near Rhinelander wells 7 and 8, attached to a customized four-wheeled cart.UW-Madison…