The Madeline Island Ferry Line’s five boats carry locals and their vehicles on the 25-minute trip across to the island. The Island Queen cuts through a channel after departing La Pointe on Madeline ...

Indigenous peoples gathered on Madeline Island in Wisconsin during the winter of 2022 to play the Ojibwe "Winter Games" for the first time in more than 150 years. MADELINE ISLAND - For the first time ...

A Lake Superior island town is the new owner of the ferries that connect Madeline Island residents to the mainland in northern Wisconsin. The Town of La Pointe closed on the $17.3 million deal to ...

LA POINTE, Wis. — A ferry service that's a lifeline for residents traveling to and from a Lake Superior island may sell its assets to new owners this year. Michael Childers, president of the La Pointe ...

The 25 trail cameras set out by Northland College researchers on Madeline Island filled their roles in 2022. As part of a project to study the island's wildlife called "Wild Madeline," the digital ...

Governor Jim Doyle has awarded $3.29 million in transportation grants for projects to improve the airport and lone county highway on Madeline Island, WI. This goal of the funding, said Doyle, is to ...

LA POINTE - On my travels north for the 2023 Wisconsin gun deer hunting season I passed many familiar landmarks with links to our official state wildlife animal and hunting. There was the village of ...

September 30 marks an important anniversary for both the Ojibwe peoples and the Northland as a whole. On September 30, 1854, 170 years ago, the 1854 Treaty of La Pointe was signed. This agreement ...

Authorities say a pilot apparently was attempting to land a single-engine plane when it crashed near the airport on Madeline Island in northwestern Wisconsin, killing him and a passenger. The Ashland ...

MADELINE ISLAND - For the first time in more than 150 years, the Ojibwe “Winter Olympics” are once again being played on Madeline Island in Wisconsin. The island, about a mile offshore of northern ...