This past Sunday, Jan. 19, was the season opener of racing for the 2025 Chetek Ice Racing season, held on Lake Chetek in front of Red’s Grill and Bar. Races take place every Sunday through the second ...

The Chetek Alert is a weekly newspaper published in Chetek, Wisconsin, a city of 2,000 residents located in southeastern Barron County, which has a total county population of 43,308. The Alert has ...

The Barron County Board of Supervisors has endorsed a proposal that could bring broadband internet to more than 3,000 ...

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For a second year in a row, a record number of shipwrecks were discovered in ... its bathymetric maps, which show how deep landforms go below sea level, in southern Lake Michigan.

Past the haze of presidential results was a significant shakeup of new faces in Wisconsin's State Legislature, made possible after the adoption of new district maps earlier this year. While touted ...

After nearly a week of freezing temperatures — below zero on several days — the Great Lakes are seeing significant ice creation, with Lake Erie nearly completely frozen over. Lake Erie was ...

Counties in northeastern Wisconsin could also get smaller amounts of snow, between a half-inch and two inches. Higher amounts are possible right along the lake. That broad range accounts for the ...

Door County isn’t on the way to anywhere. Known as Wisconsin’s “thumb,” the county juts up some 80 miles into Lake Michigan and is a succession of sandy beaches and bluffs, waterfront ...

AND IT WILL JUST FETCH RIGHT ALONG THE OPEN WATERS OF LAKE MICHIGAN AND DRAW IN THAT MOISTURE ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN WISCONSIN, WHICH IS WHY WE’RE TALKING ABOUT THAT SNOW POTENTIAL TONIGHT ...