Local Wausau News

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Area law enforcement agencies are working together to crack down on drinking and driving as the busy Fourth of July holiday nears.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) - Fifteen months after acquiring Riverview Hospital and Clinics, Aspirus Inc. said Thursday it will spend $25 million in improvements and expansions over the next two years. 

EAGLE RIVER (WAOW) - A motorcyclist was hurt Thursday when a car turned in front of him on state Highway 70 near Eagle River, the Vilas County Sheriff's Department said. 

A Utah trucker accused of keeping women as sex slaves in his semi-trailer as he drove across the country struck a plea deal with federal prosecutors Thursday, days before his trial was set to begin.

   NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City is taking a novel approach to addressing enduring pockets of the home foreclosure crisis. 

The Pentagon will let transgender individuals serve openly in the U.S. military, ending one of the last bans on service in the armed forces. 

  WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Federal Reserve has given the green light to major banks in the U.S. to raise dividends and buy back shares, judging them to have a sturdy enough financial foundation to withstand a major economic downturn.     

(CNN)-- A lot of people know about the danger of salmonella poisoning from uncooked eggs in raw dough. But fewer may be aware of the danger posed by flour.  

 A summer cookout will cost slightly  more this summer but still comes in at less than $6 a person.  

Wisconsin's new elections commission has selected Democratic appointee Mark Thomsen to chair the body in its first two years.

ROTHSCHILD (WAOW) - A fire that started in the conveyor system of the biomass plant at a Rothschild paper mill was quickly extinguished Thursday, authorities said. 

An attorney defending a host of election laws in Wisconsin being challenged as unconstitutionally suppressing votes is telling a federal court judge the plaintiffs did not prove their case. 

(ABC) -- Hundreds of ISIS militants were killed in a series of U.S. and Iraqi airstrikes Wednesday that targeted two large vehicle convoys fleeing the western Iraqi cities of Fallujah and Ramadi, according to U.S. officials.

The district attorney in Fond du Lac County says he'll consult with the family of a 1990 homicide victim, sheriff's investigators and other prosecutors before deciding how to proceed after a mistrial was declared in the case.

Officials say first responders are trying to secure the scene of an active shooter report at a military post near Washington. 

A state appeals court says a utility can scale back a program for customers who generate their own electricity from renewable sources. 

An 82-year-old man died after his kayak collided with another in a rain-swollen river, the Price County Sheriff's Department said Thursday.

Donald Trump has hired the chief of staff of U.S. Rep. Sean Duffy to run his campaign operation in Wisconsin.

Closing arguments are scheduled in a federal court trial challenging more than a dozen election laws passed by the Republican-controlled Legislature and signed by Gov. Scott Walker.

Japanese prosecutors have charged a U.S. military contractor with the murder and rape of a 20-year-old woman on Okinawa, a high-profile case that has renewed anti-American base sentiment on the southern Japanese island.