Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MADISON - The Apostle Islands could soon become Wisconsin's first national park, thanks to an effort by several federal lawmakers.

According to Wisconsin's native Anishinaabe culture, the trickster spirit Wenaboozhoo once helped the tribe in their fight against the Great Beaver, who had dammed up Lake Superior and kept its ...

(I don’t think I have an e-mail address) Adventure Adviser: By far, the best time to paddle the sheltered harbors and inlets of the 22 Apostle Islands in wild northern Wisconsin is September through ...

Almost a century ago, the first study was conducted to set aside the islands as a national park. Decades later, President ...

MILWAUKEE - A Wisconsin congressman has introduced legislation to establish what would, if passed, become the state's first national park. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-Wisconsin) on Tuesday introduced the ...

Opposition is growing over a proposal to redesignate the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as Wisconsin’s first national park. Local governments and the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa have ...

A representative for Wisconsin Congressman Tom Tiffany will propose a bill to redesignate the Apostle Islands from a National Lakeshore to a National Park at the Federal Land Subcommittee meeting July ...

MADISON - The Apostle Islands could soon become Wisconsin's first national park, thanks to an effort by several federal lawmakers. U.S. Rep. Tom Tiffany introduced a bill Tuesday that would designate ...