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NW Wisconsin Wildfire Consumes 8,700 Acres
Firefighters are working to contain a smoky wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that has consumed 8,700 acres, destroyed nearly 50 structures and forced dozens...
Wis. DNR Confirms Logging Started Wildfire
(MADISON, Wis.) — Authorities say logging operations started a massive wildfire in northwestern Wisconsin that destroyed more than a dozen homes. The state...
Police: This Guy Stole $200,000 of Wisconsin Cheese
Who moved the cheese? Now we know: a guy from Illinois, according to police, who they say made off with some $200,000 worth of Wisconsin Muenster.
Wisconsin Gouda named 2013 US Championship Cheese
A Wisconsin Gouda won top honors this week at the 2013 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest.
Wisconsin Scientists Help Search for Alien Life
(MADISON, Wis.) -- Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are helping search for evidence of alien life not by looking into outer space, but by...
Photo Essays
Springtime in the Midwest Means a Foot of Snow
Though the calendar has ticked over into May, more than six weeks removed from the end of winter, in some parts of the Midwest and Rockies the shovels haven’t...
LIFE With Guns: ‘Drawing a Bead on Safety,’ 1956
[NOTE: LIFE.com is aware that encountering images of guns and children in a classroom might be distressing to some readers — even if those images were made...
