A proposed bill regulating wake surfing on Wisconsin lakes sparks debate at the State Capitol Wednesday, with supporters and opponents voicing strong opinions ahead of a potential vote.

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 ...

Competing and differing wake surfing bills will receive a hearing Feb. 19 at the Capitol.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The new study focused on the effects that wake boats producing large waves have on sensitive lake beds. Late summer is peak season ...

Homeowners who live along the lake say they want to see it remain a thriving body of water. Katie Quirk, an Oconomowoc ...

Young and budding electric boat developer, Arc Boat Company, has just unveiled its second model – a mass-market electric wake boat called the Arc Sport. With a massive battery and no shortage of ...

Cedar Lake residents have spent millions protecting shorelines from wake boat damage as Wisconsin lawmakers prepare to vote ...

Plowing the water may be one of the fastest growing sports of the boating industry, but the use of wake boats has also raised the ire of property owners, other lake users and those who enforce the ...

Wisconsin Assembly combined and passed bills to allow a sandhill crane hunt in the state and regulate the use of high powered wake boats.

At a recent meeting of the Midwest Wakesurf Association, co-leader Andy Weigman had some good news to share: Wake boats have been less noisy this year, he'd been told — by the leader of an ...

Residents of Mercer gathered at their Town Hall to discuss a proposed ordinance that would ban wake boats from the Turtle-Flambeau Flowage.