September 8, 2014

Madison — Leaders of the state’s six Chippewa tribes in the ceded territory decided not to declare a 2014 wolf harvest quota for their tribal members, leaving all but a handful of tags to the rest of Wisconsin’s hunters and trappers. As a result, instead of 50 percent of this year’s wolf quota being allocated

Ilion, N.Y. — Six months after storied gunmaker Remington announced it would open a plant in Alabama and add 2,000 jobs, the company has laid off more than 100 workers at its Ilion, NY., facility. The 107 furloughs took effect last month; the company’s director of public affairs, Teddy Novin, said in an email they

Springfield — There were 59 confirmed cases of chronic wasting disease in Illinois deer during the fiscal year that ended June 30, according to DNR’s online CWD query system. It was a sizeable increase over the 36 cases confirmed during the previous fiscal year. Meanwhile, CWD has been thrust into the national spotlight, as researchers