9/18/2025

N. WISC / U.P. - Xcel Energy has named Lynn Hall as the new Community Relations manager for northern Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Hall succeeds Ken Disher, who retired after 35 years of service with the company.  Prior to joining Xcel Energy, Hall worked as an environmental manager with the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and previously with the City of Ashland where she oversaw operations of the city’s water and wastewater treatment plants.  Xcel Energy is the power provider too much of Northern Wisconsin and for the Ironwood and Surrounding communities in our listening area.

9/17/2025

GOGEBIC COUNTY – A downstate Michigan woman is dead following a camping accident Monday.  Police and Ambulance crews were called to Moosehead Lake Campground in Marenisco Township just before 3:30 Monday afternoon.  When rescue crews arrived, they found a 65-year-old Roscommon woman pinned between a fifth wheel camper and truck.  Despite life-saving measures the woman was pronounced dead at the scene.  The incident remains under investigation; no names have been released. 

9/17/2025

ASHLAND COUNTY - One person is dead following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 13 in Ashland County yesterday morning.  According to the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office, emergency crews responded around 10:20 a.m. to reports of a crash near Amsler Road in Chippewa Township, north of Butternut and Park Falls.  First responders discovered the driver, the sole occupant of the vehicle, had died at the scene.  The crash remains under investigation by the Ashland County Sheriff’s Office and the Ashland County Coroner’s Office. The identity of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family.