The Burnett County financial picture is strong for the future, with some caveats, according to a preliminary audit shared last week with supervisors. But the county is starting to lean into short-term ...

The new owners of Whispering Oaks Resort on Clam Lake, east of Siren, have spent the past five months cleaning up the property to reopen an old-fashioned family resort.

A plea deal to avoid a possibly lengthy jury trial has also revealed several mitigating circumstances, and a claim that the accused was likely “over-charged” by the previous county prosecutor. We're ...

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The Siren School District has multiple construction projects underway, which have limited summer activities and schooling; But that doesn’t mean the Siren Board of Education isn’t conducting their ...

Mudhen Lake, in the Town of Daniels between Siren and Grantsburg, was the site of a “hard landing” last week of a 1979 Cessna U206G floatplane, disabling the plane and leading to a ‘Good Samaritan’ ...

The two suspects behind an alleged downtown Grantsburg drug lab made a joint appearance before Judge Melissia Mogen for a preliminary hearing last week, where the state presented some of the evidence ...

There will be two new trustees on the St. Croix Chippewa Tribal Council after tribal members voted on Saturday at all four communities for their new council representation. The preliminary results ...

A 2024 jail assault on a Burnett County Corrections officer that left the officer with career-ending injuries has led to the perpetrator spending over four additional years in prison.

The tax deed auction is the last of its kind for Burnett County properties, as all the 13 parcels currently listed fall under the “old rules” of tax deed sales, prior to Wisconsin Act 207, which means ...

United Way St. Croix and Red Cedar Valleys (UW Valleys) is pleased to announce the approval of $180,000 in Community Impact Grants to 30 nonprofits throughout its six-county service area of Burnett, ...

Not only have the number of deaths attributed to the highly-addictive synthetic pain medicines been on the decline, area municipalities are now receiving and beginning to spend the dollars awarded ...