12/26/2025

IRONWOOD – Extremely icy conditions around the Gogebic Range this morning after rain and freezing rain overnight.  Secondary streets, roads and sidewalks are coated in ice are in extremely hazardous this morning.  WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL NOON TODAY...for our entire listening area Mixed precipitation. Additional snow and sleet accumulations up to one inch and ice accumulations up to one tenth of an inch.  Temperatures becoming sharply colder Sunday night into Monday with accumulating lake effect snow. In addition, there is growing confidence in the potential for an impactful winter storm for much of the UP Sunday night into Monday, although details are still uncertain at this time.

12/26/2025

N. WISCONSIN – As we Head into the new year, hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites are left wondering if they’ll be able to afford their health insurance next year.

After Congress failed to extend enhanced Affordable Care Act tax credits. More than 300-thousand Wisconsinites purchased coverage through "health-care-dot-gov" or their state-sponsored marketplace last year, and nearly 90-percent qualified for the credits. The average savings were more than 600 dollars per month. Vaishu Jawahar with health policy group Protect Our Care says now, people will be faced with premium costs that double or triple in price on January 1st.

                    0:07  "Most Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, and just one illness or hospital visit could bankrupt them under these GOP plans."

Jawahar stresses under the expanded tax credits, just 8-percent of Americans were uninsured. She says under the Republican-led health plan signed last week, unaffordable health insurance will force many to forego coverage altogether. In Wisconsin, middle-class families, retirees, small business owners, self-employed individuals and farmers would be most impacted.

12/26/2025

WISCONSIN - With Christmas now past and, the time when all the pretty paper and other wraps go into the recycling bins…Wisconsin mandates recycling of flattened cardboard (no Styrofoam/air pillows), rinsed (not crushed) plastic #1/#2, aluminum, newspapers, and glass. DNR Coordinator Jennifer Semaru emphasizes proper sorting. Acceptable wrapping paper must be plain, flat, tearable, and free of glitter, foil, and ribbons; crushing or bows often lead to rejection. Reuse gift bags. Do not place tissue paper, string lights, electronics, or batteries (fire hazard) in curbside bins. Recycle string lights at local retailers/scrap yards, and drop off electronics/batteries at designated sites. Find a complete list at dnr.wisconsin.gov and search recycling.