Eric Johnson has been named assistant editor of the Vilas County News-Review, the Eagle River newspaper announced Wednesday.
Johnson is the former editor and publisher of the Boulder Junction-based FYI Northwoods News, a bi-weekly newspaper he owned from 2010 to 2018. Johnson also worked for The(Minocqua)Lakeland Times and, most recently, as the business reporter for The(Racine)Journal Times.
Dr. Orville A. “Orv” Langhough, who for more than three decades served as a sportswriter for The Chetek Alert, died Saturday, Jan. 2, in Eau Claire. He was 92.
Beginning in the 1960s, Langhough covered high school football and basketball for The Alert. He continued in the role for more than 30 years until he retired in 2000.
The (Rice Lake) Chronotype will move to a new location at the end of January, leaving its home of more than 60 years, the newspaper announced Wednesday.
The building at 28 S. Main St., which was not included in the August 2014 sale to Adams Publishing Group, was recently sold by the newspaper’s former owners.
Some towns and villages require residents to choose local candidates in January gatherings. Do these caucuses violate disability and voting rights?
A new poll question about how readers view the actions of Trump loyalists who stormed the U.S. Capitol is available to be used by WNA members.
Readers visiting WNA member websites from Dec. 16 to Jan. 4 were asked about their plans to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Here are the results.
While livestreaming meetings has become the norm during the COVID-19 pandemic, public officials need to do a better job of making sure no one — and no meeting — slips through the technological cracks.
In the most recent installment of the Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council’s Your Right to Know column, La Crosse Tribune reporter Olivia Herken offers local lawmakers some suggestions.
Lately I’ve had a difficult time hearing, and I’m not referring to selective hearing, the condition that occurs in many marriages.
Schools are not the superspreader sites that many feared, but research indicates U.S. students fell behind in math during the pandemic
Continuing a year-end tradition launched by one of its predecessor organizations more than a decade ago, the Wisconsin Policy Forum announces its top five research findings for 2020.
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