Ladysmith News

We now know more about the bank robbery that ended in a deadly chase and gunfight last week.

The name of the bank robbery suspect that was shot and killed has been released.

Congressman Dave Obey visited Ladysmith Saturday to receive a briefing on how $1.26 million in federal Economic Development Administration grant money will be used to help expand the Meadowbrook Industrial Center and the Fritz Avenue Manufacturing Plant.

Wisconsin State Senator Russ Decker was on hand at Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College's Ladysmith branch campus on Monday to mark the awarding of a $25,000 grant for job retraining programs in Rusk County.

The Flambeau School District and Our Lady of Sorrows school have sent letters home with students to provide information about preventing the flu.

An area community is being ordered to boil tap water before using it. The Department of Natural Resources says it took the water tower and well in Exeland, northwest of Ladysmith, offline yesterday.

WHEN IT'S TIME TO CHANGE - A pontoon boat meanders across the surface of the Flambeau River Monday afternoon in the City of Ladysmith.

Thomas Edward Williams, a longtime resident of Wausau, died of natural causes at his home Aug.

A Wisconsin man convicted of sexually assaulting teenage boys is set to be released in October.

A man deemed "sexually violent" and committed to a mental institution by the court in 2001 will be released to a home in Ladysmith.

LADYSMITH, Wis. - A St. Cloud man was killed Sunday evening in Wisconsin when he was hit by a pickup.

Ladysmith is a unique town in many ways, but not when it comes to its name. Open any good atlas with maps of North America, Australia and South Africa and you can find several places that share the title.

A motorcycle rider who stopped along U.S. 8 just west of Beebe Road near Bruce was killed Sunday evening after being struck by a pick-up truck, a witness at the scene said.

A former Rusk County man deemed a sexually violent person in 2001 will soon be released in Ladysmith, according to a supervised release plan obtained Friday by the Leader-Telegram. Ray L. Wimer, 48, who was convicted of second-degree sexual assault in Rusk County in 1984 and sexual assaults in 1988 in Racine County, has been held in a secure mental ...

Ladysmith aldermen got an up-close look Tuesday at one possible future for firefighting in the city, one day after the common council voted 5-0 to seek help with making a purchase of about a half-million dollars.

The removal of sinks, toilets, computer equipment and other furnishings and fixtures from Hawkins Elementary has upset some village residents, while Ladysmith school district Superintendent Chris Poradish said the removal was simply a money-saving effort.

We have an update on a unique custody battle: a teenager is back home in Ladysmith.

Schools in the Bruce, Flambeau, Ladysmith-Hawkins and Weyerhaeuser Area school districts were recently named Wisconsin Promise Schools of Recognition.

A Ladysmith woman has a simple question that no one can seem to answer. She wants to know what it will take to bring her son home.

4, 1909: Northfield needs a new school building. The number of high school students registered is 220, but the seating capacity is only 129.