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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.