Crossing guard Barbara Kuckuk stops traffic so that Alayna Malke, 7, can scooter along French Street on her way to school on Sept. 2, 2021, in Peshtigo, Wisconsin Cubby Couvillion, 95, sits near the ...

Across North America this summer, wildfires have burned over 13 million hectares of land in Canada, covered the continental U.S. in thick blankets of smoke and threatened rare species in the Mojave ...

On Oct. 8, 1871, a massive wildfire engulfed 1.2 million acres of Northeast Wisconsin. Directly in its path was the city of Peshtigo, which was all but incinerated in its wake. A huge contributor to ...

The ship went missing during the Great Peshtigo Fire in 1871 Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources A routine fishing trip on Lake Michigan led a father and daughter duo to discover a shipwreck ...

GREEN BAY - Most people know about the Great Chicago Fire of Oct. 8, 1871, and the even more devastating and deadly Peshtigo fire of the same night that killed five to eight times more people. Also ...

Tim Wollak and his daughter Henley spotted a mysterious object on their boat’s sonar. Experts say they most likely discovered the George L. Newman, which sank during the Peshtigo fire in 1871. By ...

Fire Prevention Week starts Sunday. Fire Prevention Week was established to commemorate the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Little remembered is the worst wildfire in the history of the United States.

Captain Dustin "DR" Ridings and Captain Chad "Shemp" Allen started at GBMFD 26 years ago, on the exact same day -- April 1, 1999. Waushara County skiers and snowboarders embrace cold, snowy start to ...

Wisconsin archaeologists are crediting a man and his daughter with discovering the remains of what could be a ship that ran aground during the deadly Peshtigo Fire more than 150 years ago. Tim Wollak ...