Dickinson County Health System plans to join Marshfield Clinic Health System, doctors make advancements in treating people with long-haul COVID and groups urge the Biden administration to shut down the Line 5 oil pipelines.

Evers apologizes for Wisconsin’s role in Native American boarding schools, Sen. Ron Johnson visits the Northwoods, and Wisconsin Public Service warns of high natural gas prices.

A preliminary report outlines what happened to cause a plane crash in Forest County, Minnesota stops importing deer to prevent the spread of CWD and local nursing home staff members are not getting vaccinated against COVID at the same rate as nursing home residents.

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A new analysis finds people living in rural areas are more likely to die from COVID, an engineer believes self-driving tractors could help solve the agriculture industry’s labor shortage and epizootic hemorrhagic disease is found in white-tailed deer in Michigan.

The Wisconsin DNR reduces its fall wolf quota, an area of Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest area reopens and a newly formed consortium focuses on climate-driven problems facing the Midwest.

Tri-County Council decorates Rhinelander in purple to recognize Domestic Violence Awareness Month, a federal judge sets a hearing date on blocking the state’s fall wolf hunt and Wisconsin prepares to lead the nation in cranberry production for the 27th year in a row.

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Three people died when a small plane crashed near Eagle River yesterday, legal proceedings continue for a natural-gas plant in northwestern Wisconsin and Gov. Tony Evers proposes a $25 billion package of bills focused on the state's agriculture industry.