Bwadwét Innovation Community is offering a new entrepreneurial training program for members of the Forest County Potawatomi, with classes ranging from marketing to legal readiness to financing.

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A federal judge ruled Wednesday that officials with the Lac du Flambeau tribe must not enforce fishing restrictions among nonmembers on lakes within its reservation while a legal challenge remains ongoing.

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The second Harry Whitehorse International Wood Sculpture Festival takes place June 19-27 in Monona, with 13 featured artists carving original sculptures in real time.

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A short film that recently aired on the Wisconsin Channel follows an Ojibwe photographer holding a ceremonial fire alive for four days and nights to guide his father’s spirit to the afterlife, while his father tries to reach him from beyond.

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Canadian energy firm Enbridge can keep building a new stretch of its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin except in waterways where the company needs additional permits, a Bayfield County judge ruled Friday.

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A federal judge has temporarily barred the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa from restricting musky and walleye fishing on almost 20 lakes within the boundaries of its reservation in northern Wisconsin.

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A Bayfield County judge is weighing whether the Bad River tribe and environmental groups face irreversible harm if Enbridge continues building a new stretch of its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline around the tribe's reservation.

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