12/10/2025

WISCONSIN - Gov. Tony Evers joined the DOT Tuesday afternoon to unveil Wisconsin’s newest state license plates, a Blackout design and a Retro butter yellow design.  The bipartisan 2025-27 Biennial Budget signed by Gov. Evers included $5.5 million in funding to support the introduction of these two new specialty license plates, which are estimated to generate more than $25 million for the state’s transportation fund in the first three years.  Both plates come with a one-time $15 issuance fee, plus a $25 annual registration fee. The income generated from the registration of these plates will help finance infrastructure improvement projects all across the state.

12/10/2025

N. WISCONSIN - Arbor Vitae-Woodruff Elementary, 15 miles from the Lac Du Flambeau reservation, recently hosted a student-led powwow, designed to foster cultural understanding. The school has hosted powwows in the past, but this year featured the school’s own brand new, handcrafted drum. After-school sessions were open to all students, teaching them Native culture, drumming, and songs honoring Native Americans, the military, and veterans, concluding with an inclusive intertribal song and dance. Tribe member and school mentor Bernard Lemieux explained the drum circle promotes “togetherness, teamwork, having a good time and being respectful.”

12/10/2025

IRONWOOD - Honoring Chief John Robb a Gogebic Range hero today.  Between 11:00 and 11:30 this morning Chief Robb will take his final flight over Black River Harbor.  Robb is a 2003 graduate of Luther L Wright High School in Ironwood and has served in the US Navy for 22 years earning 7 combat air Metals for air missions over Iraq and Syria.  Robbs final day of service will be February 28^th.  Everyone is welcome to witness his final flight over Black River Harbor today again between 11 and 11:30.