Price County News

The number of deer taken on the opening weekend of the 2009 Wisconsin gun deer hunting season is down 25 percent over last season.

The man convicted of fatally shooting a woman, and seriously injuring his ex-girlfriend outside of Prentice in October of 2008 is sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of extended supervision.

Sentence is handed down for a former Rice Lake man who shot his ex-girlfriend in the face and then killed her mother.

A Price County man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing a woman and shooting another in the face.

Michael Thompson of Manitowoc participated in a 'Learn To Hunt' bear program Aug.

Voters in Price County have elected Republican Brian Schmidt Price County Sheriff, recalling Sheriff Wallace Krenzke from office.

Voters in Price County have elected Republican Brian Schmidt Price County Sheriff, recalling Sheriff Wallace Krenzke from office.

Polls are closed in Price County, where citizens are voting in a recall primary for the seat of Price County Sheriff.

Gerald Wallace Ley, 75, township of Elk, Price County, died Sunday, July 19, 2009, at the Flambeau Hospital, Park Falls.

More than a dozen agencies are scouring an area along the Elk River in Price County in search of a man who has been missing since Saturday night.

Primary and general election dates for Price County Sheriff have been set, after papers recalling Sheriff Wallace Krenzke were certified Monday.

Jun. 15, 2009 10:48 p.m. A shortage of type O-negative blood has prompted the Blood Center of Wisconsin to request donors of the universal blood type that can be transfused into any patient.

The state has completed a tentative budget plan to make up its $6.6 billion shortfall, but with major cuts to school aid included in the plan, many local educators aren't happy, and that's why they're encouraging people across Wisconsin to take a walk on the 'child' side.

Wisconsin now has the nation's second-highest number of cases of the H1N1 flu virus.