Bayfield County News

Billie Jean Goodwin, who owns A Step Above the Rest child care, had her funding from the Wisconsin Shares program suspended this week.

The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation Board of Trustees approved at the September meeting more than $60,000 in grants.

Oct. 5, 2009 7:16 p.m. Ashland a ' 25-year-old Washburn woman has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the death of her 7-month-old daughter.

A young Washburn mother has been charged in the death of her 7-month-old daughter.

A 25-year-old Washburn woman has been charged with second-degree reckless homicide in the death of her 7-month-old daughter.

Comment on This Story / Send This Article to a Friend NewsMakers Betty Ferris, Big Top Chautauqua 9/25/2009 The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters is pleased to announce the selection of Betty Ferris as 2009 Minerva Laureate.

The Duluth Superior Area Community Foundation announces the expansion of the geographic area for the Small Business Education Scholarship.

An Austrian woman on vacation in Wisconsin is getting rabies shots after she said she was bitten several times by at least two otters while swimming in a lake.

Share + Aug 11, 2009 7:18 pm US/Central DRUMMOND, Wis. An Austrian woman on vacation in Wisconsin is getting rabies shots after she said she was bitten several times by at least two otters while swimming in a lake.

The Bayfield County Sheriff's Office is investigating the report of an attempted abduction that occurred around 9:00a.m. Saturday.

The path, which was trod mainly by deer and a few botanists, wound down past some towering white pines before opening on an undeveloped lake.

Wolves in the previous two weeks have killed four dogs and injured one dog that were being trained to hunt bears.

The Bayfield County district attorney has filed a complaint accusing a town board of violating the state's opening meetings law by banning the public from a session that was held at a gravel pit.

The founder of the Lake Superior Big Top Chautauqua will spend nine months in jail to do what a judge Wednesday called "soul searching" after being found guilty of sexually assaulting a 56-year-old woman in her home.

The founder of Big Top Chautauqua was found guilty Wednesday on two counts of battery and a count of 4th degree sexual assault.

The Bayfield County Economic Development Corporation will host representatives from the Small Business Administration to present stimulus funding and Hub Zone procurement programs for small businesses.

Getting to Madeline Island in winter is easy. Just take the "ice road" from Bayfield.

A thief who broke into a northern Wisconsin restaurant apparently has refined culinary tastes.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will be starting a series of improvements to WIS 27 this week from the Sawyer/Bayfield County line to the Douglas County line, beginning with a culvert replacement project.

A DNR Integrated Science Services researcher standing well in from the shore does a survey of plants at Sand Bar Lake in Bayfield County.