MADISON, Wis. (WBAY) - The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) confirms the first positive test result for chronic waste disease (CWD) in a wild deer in Manitowoc County. The deer was ...

In 2021 one of Williams’ deer had tested positive for CWD and he reported the incident. That began a months-long battle between the rancher and the state over a management plan to contain and ...

Twenty-three years after the first detections were reported, chronic wasting disease continues to spread geographically and increase in prevalence in Wisconsin's white-tailed deer herd ...