Sea level rise is real, and it’s getting worse. A study published in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that global sea level rise jumped ...

If we want a smooth transition into a sustainable future, we need to act fast. A comment article in the journal Nature says we have ...

By Valerie Volcovici (editor's note - we've been running occasional stories from Reuters Media Connect, which has allowed us to run a small number of ...

Citing a lack of votes, the Senate has postponed voting on their recent healthcare bill. Huge amounts of pressure have come to bear against Congress ...

Reports are coming in of a massive cyberattack happening throughout the Ukraine and other countries. Recent reports indicate that it has spread to England and ...

The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on Gerrymandering in Wisconsin, and the latest news is that the case will be heard in ...

In a state where the landscape tends towards low-lying swamps, flat fields and rolling hills, northern Wisconsin's Penokee Range of mountains are a dramatic outlier ...

As expected, the Senate version of the Republican Health Care Bill has been released. It is 142 pages long, so I have not yet had ...

Deep in Gov. Scott Walker’s budget proposal is a seemingly benign item formalizing the transfer of 15 scientists within the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources ...

Wisconsin citizens’ right to clean water, clean air and a good quality of life is endangered by water pollution frequently caused by agriculture. Wisconsin’s industrial ...

CAFO release Meeting

The Sierra Club released a status paper on CAFO's and water quality in Wisconsin at a release meeting in Menomonie on June 14. We attended ...

As Wisconsin struggles to grow private-sector jobs, there is potential to expand telecommuting work outside urbanized areas of the state by improving broadband connections. As ...

By Senator Kathleen Vinehout Progress with the state budget is at a standoff in the Capitol. Behind closed doors, leaders are talking details and trying ...

Frac sand mining, processing, and trans-load still pose major issues in Wisconsin. On June 5, the Hudson, WI City Council heard testimony from citizens and ...

Henry Boschen from Chippewa Falls has been viewing a number of frac sand mines and processing plants with his drone and camera. Take a look ...

Blogs

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Steve Hanson 11/20 - 2:08pm
As you may know, a group of Dunn County residents has been working for some time on what has been called the Local News Project. Their intention is to plug ...
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Steve Hanson 11/19 - 4:34pm
Eye On Dunn County is proud to be sponsoring scholarships for a Citizen Journalism Course at UW-Stout. The course is open to the public and is designed to equip local ...
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Steve Hanson 11/19 - 1:13pm
At the moment I am still on Twitter, but to escape the Musky smell I have opened a Bluesky account for Eye On Dunn County. Unfortunately the social media tools ...

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