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A hostage situation ends without serious injury in Rhinelander, Electors approve a new building at Torpy Park in Minocqua, A state task force is likely to request a rise in the gas tax to fix roads, AARP is ready to help taxpayers get their tax forms ready, A man goes missing in the waves of Lake Michigan. The closing of Shopko pharmacies has inconvenienced small town residents.

Travel not recommended this afternoon as heavy snow continues, A deer in Forest county is found to have Chronic Wasting Disease, A call for a closer look at the books for the Rhinelander City Council, More telemarketing complaints filed with the state, A manufacturing group doesn't want a tax loophole closed.

Snowmobile crashes leave several dead around the state, including northern Wisconsin Familiar factors have been seen in snowmobile deaths this winter Fire damages an apartment in Rhinelander A Vilas County business development groug has success

Dentists are rethinking opioid prescriptions for dental pain, Gov. Evers is likely to address the "Dark Store Loophole", Pond Hockey comes to Eagle River this weekend, The Turtle River Pursuit is a unique cross-country ski race, More than $5,000 raised to help local fire departments.

Community Blood Center enters new relationship with Ascension St. Michaels Hospital Program to bring Chinese students to the Northland Pines School District is ended Healthier donations sought for the Rhinelander Area Food Pantry Governor believes Foxconn needs to do a better job communicating

A large fire in Crivitz destroys an long-time business, Foxxconn environmental footprint still worries Illinois governments, The Wilderness Queen is heavier than first thought and it's still in Rhinelander, Cantastic is a go again for the Rhinelander Area Food Pantry. A new head librarian at the Olson Memorial Library in Eagle River.

Sentencing for the third of five defendants in the death of Wayne Valliere, Jr., Rhinelander City Administrator responds to statements made by a council member, The Lakeland Union High School Board will again discuss athletic bleachers, Warming shelters continue open in the Northwoods, Ice anglers are rescued from Green Bay.

The name of the victim in a Vilas Co. business accident has been released, Fire consumes a home in Rhinelander, Most schools continue to be closed today and Thursday, thanks to the Polar Vortex, A memorial will be dedicated in Wausau to the 2017 shootings in Wausau.

It’s Data Privacy day and an official says you might not be as safe online as you think, a meeting tonight in Rhinelander is designed to help people stay away from Diabetes, and a firefighter was injured in a weekend house fire in Prentice.

Warming shelters are available if you need to warm up from the extreme cold, The trial of an Eagle River man charged with homicide is postponed, The trade war is affecting Wausau-area ginseng growers, A central Wisconsin mayor praises TSA workers as he travels to Washington, D.C., The Walker-Evers governor's race sets a record for money spent.