Local Wausau News

People from all over the country and even the world will be flocking to Iola this weekend for the 44th annual Iola Car Show.

The Latest on a police shooting in suburban St. Paul, Minnesota.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says one person has died and four others including a police officer were injured when a suspect fired shots at a Days Inn and at several vehicles traveling along a roadway in East Tennessee.

Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin and Democratic legislators are calling to repeal a portion of the state's abortion laws struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court. 

The Wisconsin Department of Justice and multiple local police departments have made nearly 100 arrests in a national sweep targeting internet child sex predators. 

Wendy's says hackers were able to steal customer's credit and debit card information at 1,025 of its U.S. restaurants, far more than it originally thought. 

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - A Stevens Point company that manages care for elderly people with lower incomes through a contract with the state is merging with two other similar companies to provide services to nearly 15,000 families in 46 counties.

A woman from Lake Geneva in Walworth county suffered a serious illness after being diagnosed with a tickborne bacterial infection. 

A state appeals court says the Madison school district is immune from a lawsuit alleging it should have prevented a portable scorers' table from falling on a young boy. 

The lawyer for a homeless man accused of pushing an American student into the Tiber River in Rome says his client wasn't the only person on the riverbank at the time. 

A Pennsylvania woman has pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct for having sex so loudly it shook her neighbor's furniture, then threatening her row house neighbors for complaining.

Authorities are investigating the death of one person and injuries to another in Fitchburg.

"Area wrestling fans may want to remember this name: Ben Provisor." Does the name ring a bell?

Four days filled with live music all starts with a chair at Hodag Country Music Fest.

The San Diego medical examiner concluded that a Navy SEAL trainee, James Derek Lovelace, 21, drowned during a pool training exercise on May 6 and determined that the death should be considered to be a homicide.

Police in Minnesota have confirmed that a man has died after being shot by an officer Wednesday night while inside a car with a woman and child -- the aftermath which lit up social media.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- A basic rule on what to do when encountering a bear in the wilderness is if it's a brown bear, you lie down. If it's a black bear, you fight back. 

A Wausau family that moved into a new home three weeks ago woke up last Sunday morning to a bobcat eating a deer carcass right in their backyard. "There are some little kids in the neighborhood, and we were afraid for their safety," Paula Cantu, the homeowner, said. The Cantus shot a video through their telescope and sent it to the DNR. "They're fairly common, but you don't see them very often because they're very secretive and usually nocturnal," DNR wildl...

Preparations are underway for the annual Balloon and Rib Festival at Wausau's Downtown Airport.

The opening of a therapy center in Rhinelander for people with autism has been put on an indefinite hold, according to InterACT Centers of Wisconsin Director Don Sidlowski.