Wake-enhanced boats and cigarettes came to mind while musky fishing on an Oneida County lake. I gave up casual smoking 32 years ago, long before Gov. Jim Doyle and the Legislature passed a law ...

Three-quarters of respondents to a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel poll say wake-enhanced boating should be regulated and more than half said it should be a blend of state and local rules. More than 725 ...

A recently-released study on a Connecticut lake found wake boats operated in surf mode produced much greater wave energy, propeller downwash and disturbance of sediments than traditional motor boats.

Wake-enhanced boating's impact on Wisconsin waterways is causing tension. Concerns about shoreline erosion and lakebed damage from wake-enhanced boats have dominated recent discussions. State ...

Wake boats, designed to create large waves for surfing, are ill-suited for Wisconsin's lakes, which have defined shorelines and existing infrastructure. The large waves generated by wake boats cause ...

Wake-enhanced boating has been in the news as well as a subject at town board meetings and in courts this summer in Wisconsin ...

As parties grapple over how or whether to regulate wake-enhanced boating in Wisconsin, the spotlight will focus March 29 on Lake Beulah in Walworth County. The 812-acre lake is very popular with wake ...

Wake boats are specialized watercraft designed to create large wakes for wake surfing, wake boarding or tubing. Over about the last decade these boats have become increasingly popular among water ...

A coalition is forming in Wisconsin to support tougher rules on wake-enhanced boating and recommend a framework for statewide legislation on the activity. "Our goal is to be proactive on this very ...

As the summer recreation season peaks in Wisconsin, wake boats continue to be a leading boating topic in the news, at local ...