LA CROSSE — The Mississippi Valley Conservancy leveraged $3 million — its largest monetary gift ever — to buy 1,600 acres of rugged land along the lower Kickapoo River. Just north of Wauzeka in ...

SPARTA, Wis. — There were times during a recent trip to southwest Wisconsin when I didn’t know whether I wanted to grip my camera or my paddle. Paddling along a section of the winding Kickapoo River ...

Aug. 26--Major flooding is a familiar occurrence for communities along the Kickapoo River in southwestern Wisconsin. But the magnitude of the water that swept through communities along the Kickapoo ...

A swiftwater rescue was conducted in the afternoon hours of August 11, 2019 on the Kickapoo River between landing 10 and bridge 11, near Rockton, WI in the town of Whitestown. Sheriff Spears reports ...

VERNON COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - The Vernon County Sheriff is reporting a drowning occurred on Thursday June 1, 2023, at around 1:15 p.m., in rural Ontario, Wis. in the Town of Whitestown. According to a ...

The sun had barely risen at the Kickapoo Valley Ranch near La Farge, and I was already tempted to abandon my plans for the day and instead spend it rocking away on my cabin’s porch. I cradled a cup of ...

Waukesha s Blue Fuel Marketing spent the past weekend helping people get to know nature in Wisconsin up close and personal. Waukesha’s Blue Fuel Marketing spent the past weekend helping people get to ...

ONTARIO, Wis. (WKBT) -- A 19-year-old from Middleton drowned in the Kickapoo River in Vernon County Thursday, the county's sheriff's office said. A release from the Vernon County Sheriff's Office said ...

LA CROSSE, WI – The Twining Farm, a 345-acre historic homestead property along the west bank of Kickapoo River, just south of Gays Mills, Wisconsin, is now permanently conserved for the sake of the ...

Kickapoo River flood damage in Vernon County likely will exceed the $60 million damage caused by the August 2007 floods, officials said Monday. “Largely a whole different area has been hit,” Vernon ...