The Greater Northwoods

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One trusted place for Northwoods news

The Greater Northwoods gathers the day's local reporting from across Northern Wisconsin and the western U.P., and brings it to you in one email at 3pm.

How we earn your trust

Every fact links to its source

We gather headlines and point you straight to the paper, station, or chamber that reported them. We never rewrite their work or pass it off as ours.

We tell you when it's behind a paywall

A small lock means the full story needs a subscription to that publication. No surprises, and a nudge to support the local newsroom doing the reporting.

Picked for you, not for the algorithm

Tell us the corners of the Northwoods you care about. The 3pm digest leads with those, then catches you up on the rest.

Where it comes from

We read the trusted local sources you already know, the same papers, stations, and chambers that have covered the Northwoods for generations, and bring their headlines together so you do not have to check ten sites.

  • WJFW Newswatch 12
  • The Lakeland Times
  • WXPR Public Radio
  • Northwoods River News
  • Ashland Daily Press
  • Vilas County News-Review
  • Sawyer County Record
  • Antigo Daily Journal
  • Iron County Miner
  • The Ironwood Daily Globe

For local businesses

When the whole Northwoods opens one email every afternoon, that is the best place to reach your neighbors. Post a job, list an event, feature a property, or sponsor the day's edition, all self-serve, all local.

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Feature a listing

Put your property in the edition for $150.

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Be the business the Northwoods sees at 3pm.

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