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WASHINGTON - Hot, dry conditions still worry firefighters in Washington state fighting the Carlton Complex wildfire.
In July, the Northwoods sent a team of firefighters to the area to help fight it.
Now, Rhinelander's Suzanne Flory is in Washington near the fire site.
She's working with the U.S. Forest Service.
This is one of the pictures Flory sent us of her area.
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WAUKESHA - One of two 12-year-old Wisconsin girls charged as an adult with stabbing a classmate to please a fictional online horror character has been found mentally unable to stand trial.
A judge declared the girl incompetent Friday and ordered her committed for treatment. Two doctors who examined the girl had submitted reports saying they didn't think she was competent.
Court documents say the two 12-year-olds plotted for months to kill their former friend to win favor with Slender Man, a character in online horror stories. Documents say they lured the victim into a wooded park following a sleepover and stabbed her 19 times.
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MINOCQUA - The Minocqua Area Chamber of Commerce will welcome a new executive director later this month.
Krystal Westfahl will start at the chamber August 21st. She'll replace Kim Baltus who left to join the Howard Young Foundation.
Westfahl comes to the Northwoods from Appleton. That's where she has been in charge of fundraising for the Muscular Dystrophy Association of Wisconsin for the past seven years. Before that, she worked as director of the Sampson State Park World War II Military Museum in Upstate New York.
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ELCHO - A Northwoods man found a unique way to give back to our troops one year ago.
During the lunch hour you'll likely find Al Breit manning the grill.
His wife Diane works the bar, and together they own the Post Lake Inn in Elcho.
Every day Breit finds an opportunity to sneak downstairs to work on a special project.
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RHINELANDER - More than 16,000 people in northcentral Wisconsin live with some form of dementia. They're some of the 110,000 people living with a cognitive impairment in the state. About 60% of them will wander at some point.
A new tool could help their families find them.
The Silver Alert program became available in Wisconsin Friday.
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ST. GERMAIN - In the south, you can find barbeque on every corner. Up here it's not that easy... But if you're craving it, you can head to Pig in the Pines this weekend.
It's the 10th annual year of the event in St. Germain. There are award winning ribs, live music and family friendly attractions to enjoy.
Barbeque lovers from across the midwest are drawn to Pig in the Pines...and of course everything is finger licking good.
"It does help the community," says St. Germain Chamber Director Penny Wiesmann. "It draws people from all over the Midwest. We have people talking about; this is their fourth or fifth annual year. The smells are incredible. You don't know where to go. You don't know if you should get ribs or pork or brisket or the corn. Try everything. Eat all day long."
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RHINELANDER - A man convicted of breaking into a 15-year old girl's basement and sexually assaulting her will move to Rhinelander when he's released from prison.
26-year-old Jason L. Mullen will be released from prison August 5th. He'll move into a transitional living home in Rhinelander.
Mullen broke into a basement window of an Oneida County home. A 15-year-old girl he knew lived there. He told her he had a knife and sexually assaulted her. It turns out he didn't have a knife.
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