People often salt slippery, winter roads to melt ice, making it safer to drive and walk on. Some counties in Wisconsin have been using cheese brine or a beet juice blend instead. Locals say these ...

GREEN COUNTY, Wis. – Winter weather has made its way to Wisconsin, and one county is using a cheese byproduct to treat slick roads this season. Wisconsin Department of Transportation Highway ...

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 ...

Roads dusted with the white chalky substance of rock salt is a familiar sight this time of year. The salt works to help clear snowy roads and prevent wet roads from freezing over in the colder weather ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...