by Bob Hague | Feb 29, 2024
Great Lakes tribes want the Biden Administration to oppose a pipeline. In a letter, leaders of 30 tribes including 9 of 11 federally recognized tribes in Wisconsin, ask the administration to support the Bad River Chippewa in its dispute with Canadian pipeline firm...
by Bob Hague | Jul 23, 2019
A northern Wisconsin tribe wants a pipeline removed from its land. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed suit in federal court in Madison on Tuesday against Enbridge Energy. A statement posted to social media by Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins Jr. says the...
by Bob Hague | Jan 19, 2018
A special prosecutor has declined to file charges in the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Jason Pero by an Ashland County Sheriff’s deputy. Pero was shot on the Bad River Reservation by Deputy Brock Mrdjenovich on November 8. St. Croix County District Attorney...
by WRN Contributor | Nov 9, 2017
A 14-year-old boy has died following an officer-involved shooting on a northern Wisconsin reservation. According to a release from the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office, officers were called to the Odanah community on the Bad River Chippewa Reservation shortly...
by WRN Contributor | Nov 21, 2014
Wisconsin’s Bad River Indian tribe will be part of a new federal effort to return reservation lands to tribal ownership. Deputy Interior Secretary Mike Connor said Thursday that 21 Indian communities in 12 states — including the Bad River tribe near...
by Andrew Beckett | Jul 12, 2013
One of the main critics of Gogebic Taconite’s proposed iron ore mine in northern Wisconsin is calling for those opposed to the project to avoid violence. A video released this week shows protesters raiding an exploratory drilling site for the proposed mine,...
by WRN Contributor | Feb 27, 2013
A new report says an Indian tribe that fears pollution from a proposed mine in northern Wisconsin has pollution problems of its own. The federal Environmental Protection Agency says the Bad River tribe near Ashland has had dozens of water quality violations at its...
by Bob Hague | Feb 27, 2012
As the Wisconsin legislature rushes to complete mining legislation, a tribal leader remains opposed to any iron ore mine in the tribe’s ceded territory in northern Wisconsin. Gogebic Taconite wants to apply for permits to operate an open-pit mine in the...
by Bob Hague | Sep 21, 2011
AUDIO: Bad River chair Mike Wiggins (8:15) A proposed iron ore mine is running into opposition from a Wisconsin tribe. Bad River Ojibwe tribal chair Mike Wiggins met with Governor Scott Walker on Wednesday to discuss the proposed open-pit iron ore mine on tribally...
by WRN Contributor | Jan 18, 2008
A committee hearing at the capitol looks at using an individual's credit rating when insurers evaluate potential clients. A bill would prohibit an insurer from considering information in a person's credit report for purposes of issuing motor vehicle or...
by Bill Scott | Nov 22, 2020
Redshirt freshman quarterback Graham Mertz committed three first half turnovers and four overall as the Wisconsin Badgers (2-1) fell to the Northwestern Wildcats (5-0) (17-7 in Evanston, Illinois on Saturday. The Badgers, who played without injured wide receivers...
by Bill Scott | Apr 30, 2020
The Wisconsin women’s hockey duo of Presley Norby and Maddie Rowe were selected by the Minnesota Whitecaps in the 2020 National Women’s Hockey League Draft on Wednesday night. Norby was selected by the Whitecaps in the third round, while Rowe went in round...
by Bill Scott | Jan 27, 2020
Senior Presley Norby scored two goals to lead the top-ranked Wisconsin women’s hockey team to a 3-0 victory over second-ranked Minnesota on Saturday afternoon, sweeping the Gophers in the two game series at LaBahn Arena. Norby, who is a native of Minnetonka,...
by Bill Scott | Jun 13, 2018
Wisconsin’s defense returns only four starters from a year ago and now they’re facing time without two key defensive ends. Junior Garrett Rand suffered an Achilles injury during summer workouts and is facing the possibility of missing the entire...
by WRN Contributor | Sep 26, 2017
A driver convicted of causing the deaths of the mother and father of twin toddler boys was sentenced Monday to 15 years in prison. Brandon Ballweg, 26, also was sentenced to 5 years of extended supervision. The crash on February 12, 2017 claimed the lives of 37-year...
by Bob Hague | Apr 19, 2017
An Edgerton man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a drugged driving crash that badly injured two Middleton girls, ages 12 and 13, walking home from school a year ago. “I’m absolutely destroyed by what I’ve done, and I’m readily...
by Bill Scott | Feb 20, 2017
Waukesha Catholic Memorial Inside Linebacker C.J. Goetz has committed to the Wisconsin Badgers 2018 football recruiting class. The 6’3, 225 pound Goetz was a first-team all-state pick last season when he helped the Crusaders won the WIAA Division 3 State...
by Bill Scott | Nov 7, 2016
Saturday’s 21-7 win over the Northwestern Wildcats in Evanston put the Wisconsin Badgers in the driver’s seat to reach the Big Ten Conference Championship game on Dec. 3 in Indianapolis. The Badgers (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) are tied with both Nebraska and...
by Andrew Beckett | Jan 7, 2016
A new four-lane bridge across the Saint Croix River connecting Wisconsin and Minnesota is not expected to open now until the fall of 2017. The bridge connecting Hudson and Stillwater, Minnesota had been expected to open by fall of this year. However, transportation...
by Bill Scott | Nov 5, 2015
The Wisconsin men’s basketball team knocked off division-three U-W River Falls 101-46 on Wednesday night at the Kohl Center. Six Badgers scored in double figures, led by Nigel Hayes and redshirt freshman Ethan Happ with 16 points each. The Badgers shot...
