The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) approved the exploratory drilling application submitted by Gogebic Taconite LLC.
The DNR issued an exploration license to Gogebic Taconite authorizing the company to drill eight exploratory drill holes. This is the first exploration license issued under the new iron mining law enacted earlier this year.
The company has proposed exploration in a four-mile area located east of Mellen in eastern Ashland and west-central Iron counties. The area of interest is part of the Penokee/Gogebic deposit, a 21-mile long portion of the larger Gogebic Iron Range that

A proposed Vilas County all-terrain vehicle (ATV) ordinance that would permit ATV travel on seven-tenths of a mile of Highway D in Lac du Flambeau to complete a route using town roads was rejected 13-8 by the Vilas County Board at its first evening meeting in St. Germain Tuesday.

Supervisors opposed to the ordinance said they feared approval would be the “foot in the door”

A one-vehicle crash Monday in the town of Pelican resulted in the death of a 55-year-old Rhinelander man, according to the Oneida County Sheriff’s Office.

The vehicle’s driver, James R. Hagen, died at the scene as a result of the accident, said authorities.

The office received a 911 call reporting a one-vehicle accident near 2240 County Highway G at 6:35 p.m.

The investigation determined that the vehicle was traveling

More than 220 lakes
increased to 5-fish limit

Daily walleye bag limits increased on 442 lakes in northern Wisconsin last Saturday, just in time for the three-day Memorial Day weekend.

The big news out of last week’s announcement by the Department of Natural Re­sources (DNR) is that a total of 223 lakes Vilas, Oneida, Forest and Iron counties returned to a five-fish walleye bag limit.

The adjustments follow Gov. Scott Walker’s an­nounce­ment last Wednesday of the Wisconsin Walleye Initiative (see related story) to make available more than $13 million for use by state, tribal and private fish hatcheries to produce more walleye for Wisconsin’s lakes.

Tourism officials had hoped the walleye bag