Michelle Jensen

Demonstrators showing support for Social Security congregated near the Administration's Rice Lake office on Thursday to promote the agency and benefits, and advocate for changes on behalf of retired Americans.

Barron County voters turned out in high numbers for the Partisan Primary on Aug. 13, prompting a few polling places to become concerned that they might run out of ballots.

The Rice Lake Main Street Association is asking the city to close Main Street to vehicle traffic on a Thursday afternoon and evening for a fall festival in September, but the Community Services Department is balking.

A Prairie Farm-based lumber company will be opening a new branch in Rice Lake.

Downtown Rice Lake will be hosting a Fall Fest but it will be held on Newton Street so that Main Street does not have to be closed to vehicle traffic on a Thursday afternoon and evening.

Wisconsin is the only state in the U.S. in which the first conviction of operating a vehicle while intoxicated is treated as a traffic, not criminal, violation.

The author who took readers on a tour of Barron County life in the 1940s and 50s via “Back to Barron” and later around the globe and through time

The Chronotype has changed — no denying.

Cork O'Connor returns to solve another mystery, this one involving the disappearance of a politician's daughter and the murder of an Indigenous woman, in William Kent Krueger's newest book, “Spirit Crossing.”

When Marilyn Saffert and her husband Paul moved onto their 5-acre rural Rice Lake spread they dubbed Two Bit Ranch, the land was basically a blank