Balsam Lake News

MADISON, Wis. - A 41-year-old Wisconsin man has been sentenced to prison for distributing images of child pornography on the Internet, the United States Attorney's Office announced.

Children of low-income families often receive free and reduced-price lunches and breakfasts during the school week, but when the weekend comes around, those meals are not available.

New Balsam Lake police officer Tyler Nelson was sworn-in by police chief Tom Thompson at Monday's village board meeting.

The Polk County sheriff's office is investigating whether two people were in a house that burned near Osceola.

A recently unsealed federal indictment charges five people - four men and one woman - from the Iron Range and northwestern Wisconsin with distributing methamphetamine.