Shell Lake News

Nadia Mak, 88, of Rochester, formerly of Pine Island, died Sunday, May 20, 2012, at Saint Marys Hospital in Rochester.

The DNR will begin a ban on baiting and feeding deer in four northwestern Wisconsin counties.

The only wild deer from northwest Wisconsin to test positive for chronic wasting disease came from the area where it got sick and it did not come from an infected area in the southern part of the state.

According to unofficial results of the Tuesday, April 3, spring election, two incumbent county board supervisors will be replaced by newcomers to county government.

Public forum comes in wake of discovery of diseased deer near Shell Lake WASHBURN COUNTY - DNR representatives hosted an informational public meeting on chronic wasting disease Monday, April 23, at the Spooner High School.