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Old Farmer’s Almanac Predicts First Frost For Wisconsin
Sadly, the writing is on the wall. Fall is in the air and that means that winter will be here sooner rather than later. That is simply the Northland way. In true Old Farmer's Almanac fashion, they have some information handy to help us predict the frost dates for the season. Did that send a chill down your spine reading it like it did mine?
The wife of Republican Wisconsin US Senate candidate Hovde takes aim at female Democratic incumbent
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The wife of Republican U.S. Senate candidate Eric Hovde is taking center stage in her husband’s campaign in the days after he secured the party nomination, directly attacking Democratic Sen. Tammy Baldwin in a television ad released Thursday about single mothers. The race between...
Winona Senior High Football Head Coach, John Cassellius, Talks 2024 Season as Camp Opens
(KWMN)- The Winona Senior High Winhawk football team opened their training camp earlier this week on Monday. With returning players like QB Deion Prolo, and RB Jaden Blank leading the offense, there’s room for a lot of excitement. Yet the team will still have to replace those who graduated in the Spring.
St. Charles teen recovers from heart transplant
ST. CHARLES, Minn. — A St. Charles teenager says he's lucky to be alive after a sudden illness required a heart transplant.Back in January, 16-year-old Braxton Wohlferd got violently sick after contracting a common childhood virus called parvovirus B-19. It was the middle of the wrestling season and just a few days after a tournament when Braxton Wohlferd thought he was coming down with the stomach flu."I started throwing up about 2:30 in the morning. And I kept throwing up every 30 minutes," said Braxton Wohlferd.It got bad enough that he called his mom Melissa to come home. By the time...
Wisconsin man convicted in killings of 3 men near a quarry
LA CROSSE, Wis. (AP) — A man has been convicted in the fatal 2021 shootings of three men whose bodies were found outside a Wisconsin quarry. A La Crosse County jury found Nya Thao, 37, of Onalaska guilty Tuesday of three counts of intentional first-degree homicide and one count of felon in possession of a firearm, the La Crosse Tribune reported.
Canadian wildfire smoke to trigger air quality alert
(St. Paul, MN) — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says parts of northwest Minnesota will be affected by Canadian wildfire smoke this week. Heavy ground-level smoke is expected in the region beginning this afternoon. The air quality alert will take effect at 3 p.m. today and will last until 6 p.m. Sunday.
Where Is Minnesota Looking At Adding A New Freeway?
I've been waiting years for some road relief, and while it's not coming to the St. Cloud area, at least in terms of a new freeway, the state of Minnesota is looking at converting a highway in the North Metro into the newest freeway. The move would eliminate stoplights and add over or underpasses for those intersections.
Minnesota’s D.A.R.E. Program To Pivot From Drugs to Cyberbullying
Remember the D.A.R.E. program in school? We were never ever ever ever ever ever gonna do drugs, because the lion in a t-shirt (and NO PANTS) told us not to and to also snitch on our parents if we caught them doing drugs, whether it was recreational drugs or prescription drugs. We didn't know the difference, we just saw "drugs" and snitched.
Walz administration awarded $2 million to Muslim group fundraising for al Qaeda-linked charity
EXCLUSIVE — Under Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), the state of Minnesota awarded over $2 million to an Islamic group that fundraises for a charity linked to an al Qaeda affiliate, according to funding records reviewed by the Washington Examiner. The Islamic Association of North America, the recipient of the state grants from 2019 to 2024, […]
‘Unsung heroes of the Northland:’ The never-ending work to keep the power on
BROOKSTON, Minn. (Northern News Now) - It’s been two weeks since a severe wind storm carved a 150-mile path across Northern Minnesota, taking down trees and powerlines from Bemidji to Duluth. The system left more than 10,000 Northland homes and cabins in the dark. That’s when the unsung heroes...
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