MADISON, Wis. — Foxconn Technology Group wants to tap 7 million gallons of water a day from Lake Michigan to meet its needs. The city of...
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder refused Monday to halt the flow of crude oil through twin pipelines in a Great Lakes waterway as...
CONCORD, N.H. — When roads turn into ice rinks, consider trying beet juice, molasses, and even beer or cheese waste to make them safer. So say...
It’s the largest donation in the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse’s history. The school is celebrating a $2 million endowment gift from the Paul Fleckenstein Trust that...
WASHINGTON — Federal scientists have determined that a family of widely used pesticides poses a threat to dozens of endangered and threatened species, including Pacific salmon,...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump often brags that he’s done more in his first year in office than any other president. That’s a spectacular stretch....
WASHINGTON — In the early days of the Trump administration, the head of one of America’s largest coal companies sent a four-page “action plan” to the...
MADISON, Wis. — Conservationists pushed back Wednesday against a bill that would end state wolf management efforts and bar state police from investigating wolf poaching, saying...
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Trump administration’s proposal to expand offshore drilling is “horrible public policy,” a Republican lawmaker from coastal South Carolina said Thursday. State Sen....
NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Niagara Falls is one place the nation’s deep freeze is as much seen as it is felt. Mist from the surging waters...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — While much of the nation shivers in bone-aching cold, people in Alaska’s largest city are basking in warmer weather, jogging in short sleeves,...
MADISON, Wis. — Students would be able to earn money for college by building trails, shoring up stream banks and restoring prairies under a bipartisan bill...
MILWAUKEE — Bone-chilling cold gripped much of the central U.S. as 2018 began Monday, breaking century-old records, icing over some New Year’s celebrations and leading to...
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Starfish are making a comeback on the West Coast, four years after a mysterious syndrome killed millions of them. From 2013...
CHICAGO — Scott Judd trained his camera lens on the white dot in the distance. As he moved up the Lake Michigan shoreline, the speck on...
MADISON, Wis. — There’s apparently nothing to fear in ending the DNR permit process for filling in Wisconsin’s wetlands. Nothing to fear, says the authors of...
BOSTON — Massachusetts is being sued by 13 other states, including Wisconsin, that claim a voter-approved law to ban the sale of eggs and other food...
BILLINGS, Mont. — Montana U.S. Rep. Greg Gianforte is sponsoring legislation to withdraw land near Yellowstone National Park from future mining, after describing an identical Senate...
Depending on who you listen to, sulfide mining is now on the verge of bringing to parts of Wisconsin to economic prosperity or environmental disaster. Gov....
SALT LAKE CITY — President Donald Trump on Monday took the rare step of scaling back two sprawling national monuments in Utah, declaring that “public lands...
