Chetek Fire Department was requested near 11 ½ Ave. and 28th St. in Chetek, on Sunday, May 4, for a van on fire. The vehicle’s occupants were able to exit. However, dry conditions made it easy for the ...

The Chetek-Weyerhaeuser track and field teams competed in two meets last week with several athletes seeing big improvements in their respective events. The Bulldogs hosted the annual Bill ...

A Barron County man living in the country illegally and charged in the motor vehicle crash that killed a Clayton man near Weyerhaeuser in 2024 was sentenced Friday, May 9, in Rusk County Circuit Court ...

A former Almena man who allegedly fled Chetek police in a high-speed chase during February 2025 remains in the Barron County Jail after pleading not guilty during an arraignment hearing Friday, May 2, ...

1:15 p.m., Law enforcement was requested in the 200 block of south First St. in Cameron for a report of subjects acting strange. The officer went to the address to investigate.

Chetek’s iconic drive-in movie theater’s screens will be dark this summer. Every spring, moviegoers wait in anxious anticipation for the Stardust Drive-In Movie Theater’s opening weekend lineup.

This is a story about my love for Chetek. It is also a cautionary tale about progress, and its inherent ramifications.

Members of the Chetek Pickleball Club traveled to Naples, Florida, for the Minto U.S. Open Pickleball Championships. The championship, referred as the largest pickleball party in the world, took place ...

Kathleen M. Cross, 59, Amery, was charged May 6 with possessing amphetamine/methamphetamine (as party to a crime) [May 3]. Signature bond set at $2,500.

City of Chetek Mayor Jeff Martin signed the annual poppy proclamation at City Hall on Friday, May 2, urging businesses and residents to support the annual poppy fund drive. The Chetek American Legion ...

Chetek’s Girl Scout Troop 3315 visited Meadowbrook Assisted Living on Monday, April 21, and delivered the popular cookies to residents in the nursing home and its senior living residents.

Longtime Chetek/Chetek-Weyerhaeuser softball coach Randy Books, who coached the Bulldogs for more than 21 years (17 years as varsity head coach), will be honored for his coaching tenure next week. The ...