Rhinelander Area Food Pantry volunteers used to bag up a couple granola bars, maybe some individual microwave mac and cheeses ...

Do you know the legend of the Rhinelander Hodag? This month’s issue of Milwaukee Magazine explores the lore of the hideous green beast and how it’s become a symbol of pride for the northern Wisconsin ...

RHINELANDER, Wis. (WSAW) - It is just about as famous of an event as the music festival itself-- the Hodag chair line. For more than 40 years, Hodag attendees line up for a prime seating location to ...

All acts are still planning to attend this year's Hodag Country Festival. That's what we're hearing from the owners Wednesday. The Oneida County Public Safety Committee voted Tuesday to authorize the ...

RHINELANDER - Never judge a book by its cover. That doubly goes for author and designer Jill Kuczmarski's hodag Happy — an all-teeth-and-no-bite take on a local legend. In fact, Kuczmarski has spent ...

A mythical beast? Wisconsin's quirkiest high school mascot? A completely real creature that was blown up with dynamite in the Northwoods 130 years ago? The hodag is all of the above, depending on who ...

Sports clubs are a great place to sight in your firearm, and hang out with some buddies, but a club in Rhinelander is going ...

A grand opening and ribbon-cutting ceremony will be held on Friday, May 22, at 1 p.m.

He has a screenplay, a booth at this month’s Hodag Heritage Festival in Rhinelander, and a dream that a mythical creature of the Wisconsin Northwoods can make people forget Bigfoot, the Loch Ness ...

Voters turned out in mythic proportions for northern Wisconsin's favorite mythical creature: the Hodag, crowned as SBLive Sports' best mascot in America. When the championship field was released Oct.

RHINELANDER - The creature had a dragon's body, a fanged, snarly grin and smelled of "buzzard meat and skunk perfume," the Northwoods timberman wrote in a Rhinelander newspaper. Eugene Simeon Shepard ...