WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 AM TOMORROW for Gogebic, Ontonagon, Iron, Ashland and Bayfield Counties in our listening area.  Lake effect snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 1 and 3 inches except between 4 and 6 inches for northern Iron County and ice accumulations around a light glaze. Winds gusting as high as 35 mph.

IRON COUNTY SNOWMOBILE TRAIL REPORT

The Hurley area trail conditions on this 18th day of December are as follows:

2....OPEN GROOMED

2a..OPEN GROOMED

3....OPEN GROOMED

6....OPEN GROOMED

7....OPEN GROOMED (South of Clement's swamp)

8....OPEN GROOMED

8b..OPEN GROOMED

8e..OPEN GROOMED

8 Palmquist...OPEN GROOMED

8w..OPEN GROOMED

9....OPEN GROOMED

11a..OPEN GROOMED

13...OPEN GROOMED (to Island Lake Road)

13b.CLOSED

13c.OPEN GROOMED

13s.CLOSED (Still not groomed with the warmer temperatures, but is now mostly cleared by our crew of dedicated White Thunder Rider volunteers!)

15...OPEN (PARTS GROOMED)

15a.OPEN WEST OF HWY 51 (REST Packed, but CLOSED)

15n.CLOSED

17...OPEN GROOMED

17a.OPEN GROOMED

77...OPEN GROOMED

12/18/2025

ODANAH - The fight over the Line 5 pipeline continues as the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sues the U-S Army Corps of Engineers. The tribe claims the Corps' permitting approval for Canadian oil company Enbridge’s construction of a 41-mile pipeline relocation project is unlawful. A section of the more than 70-year-old pipeline has been operating illegally on the Bad River Band's Reservation for more than a decade. Beth Wallace with the National Wildlife Federation says despite decisionmakers fighting for years to shut it down, legal maneuvering and a lack of energy planning has made this nearly impossible to achieve. She stresses the reroute to keep it running still poses a direct threat to tribal lands and natural resources.

                    0:14  "This piece of infrastructure has already set the stage for other corporations to violate, or attempt to violate, critical laws. It's really important that leadership aren't creating a dangerous precedent where our Great Lakes protections are on the line to foreign oil corporations."

Proponents, like the Wisconsin Jobs and Energy Coalition, are calling the lawsuit “baseless.” They say the project has been thoroughly analyzed and would create hundreds of jobs and provide energy to the state and region. A federal judge ordered Line 5 to be shut down by June of 2026 but that decision is under appeal.