Local Wausau News

Authorities are investigating after a semitrailer containing 20,000 pounds of cheese was stolen from a parking lot in southeastern Wisconsin.

Wisconsin's professional licensing board last month launched an investigation into the professional conduct of a Milwaukee neurosurgeon who is facing up to a year in jail if convicted of a third drunken-driving charge.

(WVVA) Here you will find viewer and WVVA staff submitted photos of historic flood damage and clean-up efforts that occurred in June 2016.

Madison police say an officer fatally shot a man after he emerged from a lake, broke into a home and "aggressed" toward the officer with a pitchfork.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) - Madison police say an officer fatally shot a man after he emerged from a lake, broke into a home and "aggressed" toward the officer with a pitchfork. Police Chief Mike Koval says the department received a call around 9 p.m. Thursday about a man who was chest-deep in Lake Monona, flapping and acting oddly.

With just five weeks to go until the Olympic Games open in Rio de Janeiro, the security situation in the Brazilian city is deteriorating by the day. 

When mom of two Christina Torino-Benton's 6-month-old daughter Gemma wouldn't stop fussing, she just did what she would normally do. 

During the eight years in which Sen. Tim Kaine served as the lieutenant governor and governor of Virginia, he disclosed that he accepted more than $160,000 worth of gifts. 

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- A federal judge is blocking a new law that places restrictions on abortion clinics in Florida. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama is expected to disclose as early as Friday the number of civilians killed in U.S. military and CIA drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen and Africa since he took office.

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has begun formally vetting prospective vice presidential picks. 

Thursday, the pentagon lifted a ban now allowing transgender individuals to serve openly in the US military.

Fifty-seven fiberglass donkeys are being installed around Philadelphia ahead of the Democratic National Convention.

A new crosswalk is inspiring creativity in Stevens Point. Right outside the Central Wisconsin Children's Museum sits the creative crosswalk

Two local veterans set out on a mission Thursday to help other vets struggling with the devastating affects of PTSD.

Millions of Americans will be on the road this summer, but the money they are saving at the pump is in the billions. 

ENGLEWOOD, Fla. (AP) -- A Florida man who kept playing video games after pinning his 6-year-old son to the couch on Christmas Eve has pleaded guilty to killing the boy. 

Brats, burgers, and beer are all hot items for this holiday weekend.

Central Wisconsin lawmakers reacted differently Thursday on the elimination of a state watchdog agency, the Government Accountability Board.

Multiple security teams will be on hand at the Wausau Fourth of July Celebration.