Local Wausau News

This week our Newsline 9 "Golf Card Tour" takes a stop in Wausau, at the renowned Greenwood Hills Country Club.

A state audit has found Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources been lax about monitoring large livestock farms and municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants.

ESPN is reporting that Green Bay tight end Jared Cook underwent foot surgery this week and will miss the rest of the offseason program. 

Water seems to have a calming effect on people. So after a long, busy day, relaxing by a bubbling fountain or a soft waterfall appeals to a lot of us, which is why so many homeowners are now adding water features to their backyard landscaping. 

Throughout the day people lined up at their favorite doughnut shops for National Doughnut Day.

The Marshfield Dairyfest kicked off Friday morning with the Mayor's Breakfast.

State wildlife officials are planning to release their latest wolf population estimates later this month.

(ABC) -- Video, audio and other materials from 101 cases involving the Chicago police were made public today in what Independent Police Review Authority Chief Administrator Sharon Fairley called a “historic" release.

  Matt Damon is passing on to Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduates a little bit of advice that he got from former President Bill Clinton.

(CNN)-- House Speaker Paul Ryan is laying out what he thinks the country can do to get back on track. 

Gov. Scott Walker has appointed an election inspector and retired county clerk to the elections commission, filling out the six-person body.

A Green Lake County man convicted of killing his estranged wife and her boyfriend has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

BOLINGBROOK, Ill. (AP) -- A suburban Chicago police pension board has revoked the pension of former police officer Drew Peterson. 

 (CNN)--  Police have identified a Pennsylvania woman found tied to a cinder block in a Chester County pond earlier this week. 

  MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A state audit has found Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources been lax about monitoring large livestock farms and municipal and industrial wastewater treatment plants.   

A Mosinee man is now getting a second chance at life. 28 year-old Justin Norenberg was was diagnosed at 6 months old with Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening disorder that damages the lungs and digestive system.

A UW-Madison graduate is one of three people being called a hero after jumping into New York's East River to save a man.

The Price County Sheriff's Office and Park Falls Police Department are attempting to locate two men who considered armed and dangerous.

Madison Memorial High School varsity football coach Adam Smith's personal training business shut its doors this week, leaving customers in the lurch.

Eighteen two-man teams of Hungarian gravediggers are demonstrating their skills for a place in a regional championship to be held in Slovakia later this year.