Burnett County News

MINNEAPOLIS - Authorities are on the scene of an apparent fire at a school in Siren, Wis., that started late Tuesday morning.

Recent rainfall has the St. Croix River running high. The St. Croix was at 683.74 feet in Stillwater at 10:15 a.m. on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service .

A massive leak into the St. Croix River from a sand mining operation remains under intense scrutiny from state and federal agencies charged with protecting the river from such mishaps.

ST. PAUL, Minn. - A spill at a sand mining facility in Wisconsin has dumped an unknown amount of sand and other sediment into the St.

DNR's fetish for buying land in Wisconsin persists regardless of who is Governor.

The Department of Natural Resources says its agreement to buy 100 square miles of forest in northern Wisconsin would be the state's largest land conservation purchase.

Nexen Group, Inc. was recently awarded Northwest Wisconsin Workforce Investment Board, Inc.'s 2012 Business of the Year Award.

Shortly before 1 a.m. the Burnett County sheriff's office responded to a single-vehicle crash on North Williams Road in the Town of Wood River, approximately two miles east of Grantsburg, Wis.