In the Milwaukee River basin alone, for example, over 100 miles of waterway are impaired by chloride, some with levels several times that which can be toxic to fish and aquatic life.

Once upon a time, Jones Island was home to Milwaukee's most unusual and, arguably, most idyllic community. Join us as we take a stroll through the history of this Milwaukee area and have a look at ...

On this Feb. 5, 1953, a Milwaukee Road locomotive pulled a short train across Chicago & Northwestern tracks and onto Jones Island. For the city of Milwaukee, this concluded a 26-year struggle ...

MILWAUKEE, Wis. (CBS 58) -- What started as a marsh island between the Milwaukee and Kinnickinnic rivers, has become a full-blown industrialized peninsula in Milwaukee. For over a century, a facility ...

Milwaukeeans might know about Jones Island because of its smell or maybe because it's home to the city's smallest park. But there's much more to the peninsula you pass over on the Hoan Bridge. The ...

Jones Island might not make anyone's list of Milwaukee's best-known landmarks. But that could change because of a growing public art project focusing on the city's waterfront, and its relationship ...

Jones Island lies just blocks from downtown Milwaukee but visitors are few. What they see is salt piles, fuel tanks, freight yards, docks, the freeway bridge, and the largest sewage treatment ...

MILWAUKEE -- There is a hidden history tucked along the banks of Lake Michigan, in the shadows of shiny high-rises and big ships, in the middle of Milwaukee industry. “Jones Island is everything ...

Between ice breaking tug boats, massive cranes and large barges, there's a lot happening off Jones Island in Lake Michigan this winter. Head south on the Hoan Bridge towards Milwaukee's Bay View ...

A $40 million ag export facility recently opened on Jones Island in Milwaukee, Wisc., where state-grown commodities, including dried distillers’ grain (DDGs), corn and soybeans, will move ...

If Milwaukee was going to have a mountain, it’s fitting that that mountain would be made of the thing that keeps the city moving during its cold, icy winters: road salt. Along with the pungent ...