VILAS COUNTY, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A man has been charged in connection with the death of a lady who was discovered dead on Friday night. According to the Vilas County Sheriff's Office, they were called to the scene and discovered the body of 61-year-old Kelly Johnson who appeared to have died of "unnatural causes.&qu...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - President Donald Trump and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have officially weighed in on the Wisconsin Supreme Court race after endorsing former state Attorney General on Friday night. According to his post on Truth Social, the president is imploring voters to make a plan to support Schimel, saying, "Bra...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) - A $250,000 cash bond has been issued for a Merrill man identified as Austin Stevenson, 25, who is suspected of killing his father. On Friday, Stevenson was charged with first-degree intentional homicide and burglary after John Stevenson, 48, was found dead at his Corning home on Tuesday after a wel...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - As college basketball fans huddle around the TV this week to watch their favorite team compete for a national championship, Wisconsinites are seeing a bevy of political ads claiming each of Wisconsin's Supreme Court candidates go easy on suspects charged with sexual assault crimes. However, a new an...

LINCOLN COUNTY, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A house in Lincoln County caught fire on Thursday, killing one person. According to a release, shortly after six in the morning, the sheriff's office received a call regarding a domestic fire in the town of Bradley. Firefighters found the house completely engulfed in flames and human re...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Even before President Donald Trump put pen to paper, word of his plans to slash the Department of Education has sparked debate in Wisconsin. Now that it's official, state leaders are weighing in on the move. Thursday's executive order comes after the agency initiated a nearly 50% cut to its ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- American citizens pay into it every paycheck and every year, it pays out billions of dollars in retirement benefits and disability insurance to millions: social security. But many say it's not an easy system to navigate. "Social security, disability claims process is already bewilderin...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Assembly's Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency Committee, or GOAT for short, is beginning its work in Madison. "We're learning. We don't always know what the next rock, what's under the next rock and what we're going to find," said committee member S...

(WTAQ-WLUK) - Cuts to a program which helps pay for new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations could be coming. District 8 Rep. Tony Wied wants to repeal the 'National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure' (NEVI) federal program. He's supporting legislation called the 'Unplug EV Charging Stations Program Act.' Wied said to...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- With less than four weeks to go before the election, voters were more tuned in to the state Supreme Court race than the state superintendent of public instruction race, a poll found. The latest Marquette University Law School poll found that majorities of Wisconsin voters had not heard enough about most ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration system that provides safety messages to pilots experienced an outage for several hours on Saturday before resuming operations, the agency and airlines said. The outag...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roughly 100 people waved signs and danced in protest outside a Tesla dealership in Washington on Saturday, angry at the electric vehicle maker's billionaire CEO Elon Musk, who has led efforts to sharply cut the federal workfo...

By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth joined the mounting criticism of federal judges by President Donald Trump and others in his administration on Saturday, mocking the judge who blocked a ban on transgender troops ...

By Michaela Cabrera and Clotaire Achi PARIS (Reuters) - Parisians vote in a referendum on Sunday to decide whether an extra 500 of the city's streets should be pedestrianised and greened, in a new push by the French capital's left-leaning town hall...

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela announced it reached an agreement on Saturday with the United States to resume repatriation flights of migrants, according to a statement from the country's Parliament President Jorge Rodriguez. Rodriguez said the flig...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Turkish prosecutors have asked a court to jail Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and four of his aides pending trial on terrorism and corruption charges, Imamoglu's office said, as thousands nationwide protest what they call his undemoc...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's government said on Sunday that a federal budget this week would include an A$1.8 billion extension to a scheme to reduce energy bills, ahead of what is expected to be a closely-fought general election due by May. Prim...

CAIRO (Reuters) - An Israeli airstrike killed Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel in southern Gaza's Khan Younis, Hamas and Palestinian media reported in the early hours of Sunday. (Reporting by Nidal Al-Mughrabi and Jaidaa Taha; Editing by ...

KYIV (Reuters) - A Russian drone hit an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials said early on Sunday, adding that emergency services were on the site. (Reporting by Oleksandr Kozhukhar in Kyiv; Writing by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will invest 600 million pounds ($775 million) to train construction workers and help tackle severe skills shortages that could undermine its plan to build 1.5 million homes by 2029 and boost economic growth, it said on Sa...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers have agreed to trade one of their recently signed veteran hitters after struggling during spring training. According to Joel Sherman and Jon Heyman of the New York Post, Mark Canha was traded to the Kansas City Royals from the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night for cash or a ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst was reportedly the only NFL GM to attend Arizona star wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan's private workout on Monday. According to Jordan Reid of ESPN, who was the first to report on the development, "Arizona wide receiver Tetairoa McMillan held...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The three-seed Wisconsin Badgers are moving on to round two of the 2025 March Madness tournament following their 85-66 win over thirteen-seed Montana Grizzlies. Four out of five of Wisconsin's starters scored in the double-digits as John Blackwell led the team in scoring, recording 19 points along ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The WIAA State High School Basketball Tournament begins today at the Kohl Center in Madison. The two Central Wisconsin teams, Marshfield and Wausau East, begin play on Friday. Here is the complete schedule: 2025 State Boys Basketball Tournament Thursday-Saturday, March 20-22, 2025 Kohl Center, Mad...

MARYVALE, AZ (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers rallied with five late runs and beat the Chicago White Sox 5-4 in spring training baseball on Wednesday. The Brewers were trailing 4-0 when they tallied single runs in the 6th and 7th innings. Tyler Black then hit a three run homer in the 8th. Joey Ortiz and Chad Durbin had ...

Zoe Brooks scored 19 points Saturday and second-seeded North Carolina State pulled away in the fourth quarter to eliminate 15th-seeded Vermont 75-55 in the first round of the Spokane 1 region of the NCAA Women's Tournament in Raleigh, N.C. Aziaha Jame...

((Reuters)) - American Sean Brady scored the biggest win of his career with a superb submission over ex-welterweight champion Leon Edwards to silence the crowd at London's O2 Arena and catapult himself into contention for a shot at compatriot Belal...

Brooklyn Meyer scored 19 points and grabbed eight rebounds as No. 10 South Dakota State rallied to beat No. 7 Oklahoma State 74-68 in Storrs, Conn. Madison Mathiowetz added 17 points for South Dakota State (30-3), which will face No. 2 seed Connecticu...

Anthony Davis is "in increasingly strong contention" to return during the Dallas Mavericks' upcoming four-game road trip, per NBA insider Marc Stein. The Mavericks will begin the trip on Monday against the Brooklyn Nets. After midweek matchups against...

The New York Giants agreed to terms on a one-year contract with wide receiver Zach Pascal on Saturday, per multiple reports. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed for Pascal, who visited the Giants on Monday. Pascal, 30, did not have a catch...

LONDON (Reuters) -British finance minister Rachel Reeves is eyeing spending cuts for government officials who work in departments to the value of over 2 billion pounds ($2.58 billion) a year by 2029-30, a cabinet office source said on Saturday. Reeves ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain will invest 600 million pounds ($775 million) to train construction workers and help tackle severe skills shortages that could undermine its plan to build 1.5 million homes by 2029 and boost economic growth, it said on Sa...

(Reuters) - OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India's Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, technology news website The Information reported on ...

By Elisa Martinuzzi, Jesús Aguado, Balazs Koranyi, Stefania Spezzati and John O'Donnell (Reuters) - Some European central banking and supervisory officials are questioning whether they can still rely on the U.S. Federal Reserve to provide dollar f...

By Marianna Parraga HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. court officer overseeing an auction of shares in the parent of Venezuela-owned refiner Citgo Petroleum is recommending a judge choose a $3.7 billion offer by an affiliate of Contrarian Funds to set the...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Bayer was ordered by a jury in the U.S. state of Georgia to pay about $2.1 billion to a plaintiff who claimed the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, the plaintiff's law firms said late on Friday. The verdict, which Bayer...

By Alberto Alerigi SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazilian drugmaker Hypera plans to launch next year a generic version of semaglutide, the active ingredient of Novo Nordisk's blockbuster diabetes and weight-loss drug Ozempic, Hypera's chief executive said on F...

(Reuters) -Measles cases in Texas and New Mexico rose to 351 on Friday, the health departments of the states said, an increase of 34 infections over the last three days as the United States deals with one of the largest measles outbreaks in the past de...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -The United Nations children's agency said on Friday it will run out of its supply of lifesaving food to treat children suffering from acute forms of malnutrition in Ethiopia and Nigeria within the next two months...

(Reuters) -Alnylam Pharmaceuticals' shares rose about 7% before the bell on Friday following U.S. approval for its drug for a rare and deadly heart disease, securing an entry into a market dominated by Pfizer's blockbuster Vyndaqel. The injectable drug...

By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland (Reuters) - The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ...

By Kantaro Komiya and Nivedita Bhattacharjee TOKYO/BENGALURU (Reuters) - Japan's Astroscale, a company specialised in removing orbital junk, has agreed with Bengaluru-based space companies Digantara and Bellatrix Aerospace to collaborate on techno...

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Netherlands is setting up a fund to attract top foreign scientists to the Netherlands, Education Minister Eppo Bruins said in a letter to parliament on Thursday. Bruins did not give a timeline but said the fund should be ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New data involving millions of galaxies and luminous galactic cores is providing fresh evidence that the enigmatic and invisible cosmic force called dark energy - responsible for the universe's accelerated expa...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Boeing's troubled Starliner capsule that left two NASA astronauts on the International Space Station last year may need to fly a third uncrewed test flight before it carries astronauts again, agency officials...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Federal Aviation Administration system that provides safety messages to pilots experienced an outage for several hours on Saturday before resuming operations, the agency and airlines said. The outag...

(Reuters) - OpenAI and Meta Platforms have held separate discussions with India's Reliance Industries over potential partnerships to expand their artificial intelligence offerings in the country, technology news website The Information reported on ...

ROME (Reuters) -Negotiations on a potential contract between Elon Musk's satellite internet operator Starlink and the Italian government have stalled, reflecting broader geopolitical tensions, Italy's defence minister said on Saturday. Prime Minister G...

By Yelin Mo and Andrew Silver SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese tech giant Tencent on Friday night launched the official version of its T1 reasoning model, stepping up competition in China's increasingly crowded artificial intelligence sector. The upgra...

By Anna Tong, Krystal Hu and Kenrick Cai (Reuters) - Kyle Vogt, former CEO of self-driving car company Cruise, has raised $150 million in a new funding round led by Greenoaks for his robotics startup The Bot Company, valuing the firm launched less ...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Tom Cruise takes on what may be his final "Mission: Impossible," a new Superman will wear the red cape, and the record-setting "Avatar" sci-fi series will return to movie theaters this year. Those films and ...

By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean court issued an injunction on Friday to stop members of K-pop group NewJeans from pursuing independent projects, marking the latest twist in a long-running dispute between the stars and their label th...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu faces trial on Monday over alleged sexual assaults of two women on a film set, a case placing one of the world's best known movie stars at the heart of France's broader reckoning...

By Blake Brittain (Reuters) - Pop singer Mariah Carey defeated a lawsuit claiming she illegally copied elements of her holiday megahit "All I Want for Christmas Is You" from a country song of the same name. U.S. District Judge Monica Almadani in Lo...

LONDON (Reuters) - Irish rockers U2 will receive the Ivors Academy Fellowship at this year's Ivors, Britain's annual awards for songwriters and screen composers, organisers said on Thursday. Bono, The Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. will fo...