Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If you're unfamiliar with feta brine, as the name suggests, it's the liquid that feta cheese often comes packaged in when you buy ...

This year, in order to melt snow on roadways more quickly, Wisconsin is combining rock salt with cheese byproducts. It's an ingenious plan to take advantage of a state industry that produced 2.7 ...

As part of an initiative to find environmentally-friendly ways to solve the problem of icy roads, the city of Milwaukee, WI has turned to its most abundant natural byproduct: the town now slathers its ...

MONROE, Wis. (WKOW) — Cheese is one of the first things people tend to associate with the state of Wisconsin. From all the delicious flavors and varieties produced in the Dairy State, who could blame ...

As large parts of the eastern United States get smacked with snowstorm after snowstorm, some states are turning to bizarre alternatives to help deal with dwindling supplies of salt to clear icy roads.

For the past five years, highway officials in Polk County, Wis., have gone shopping at cheese farms — but not for cheese. For the past five years, highway officials in Polk County, Wis., have gone ...

MONROE, Wis. -- Green County is approaching snow and ice removal the Wisconsin way, using cheese to treat the wintry roads. "You see those white lines on the road? Yeah, here, it's cheese brine," said ...