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Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR Only “trace amounts” of PFAS were found in liquid discharged from the long-closed City of Rhinelander landfill, new testing shows. The testing was part of an effort to identify sources of PFAS contamination in Rhinelander-area water. High levels of PFAS forced the city to shut down two of its five municipal drinking water wells in 2019. “I am pleased to report that our first round of analytical samples of five samples from the City of Rhinelander Legacy Landfill con...

Rhinelander is getting a new air medical service. Monday, Life Link III announced it plans to open a new air medical base in Rhinelander. It will be the company’s 10th base between Minnesota and Wisconsin. In response, Marshfield Clinic said it would provide emergency air support in Minocqua for patients requiring care through its Life Link III helicopters that are used at other hospitals within the medical group. The new base will be located at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport. "Our new...

They can fly high and take photos and video, but can’t do much more. But his drones? As he sees it, they might change the world. Scott Williams, the engineer behind WiscLift. Credit Ben Meyer/WXPR “If we could put a flying cell tower [up] there, then we could do computing, we can do whatever right off of this thing,” said Williams. “We need a flying computer. We need this network that we can put anywhere and just let everyone compute off of it.” Williams and his 16-year-old son, Mac, ...