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Recent debate about the use of the Confederate flag has people across the country talking.

The Department of Natural Resources says it will require a full environmental impact study of a proposed hog "megafarm" in northern Wisconsin.

Republican legislative leaders have reached a deal on a new state budget.Leaders of the Senate and Assembly plan to hold a news conference on Wednesday morning to announce terms of the agreement.

(Wausau)-- A new attraction is re-opening Wednesday afternoon in Wausau with some exciting new features.

Tuesday lasts a wee bit longer -- by a second.International timekeepers are tacking a second to the clock to compensate for a slightly slower Earth rotation.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) – Citing 30 years of trial experience, a Stevens Point prosecutor said Tuesday he is a candidate for a circuit court judgeship in Portage County.

President Obama is scheduled to speak in La Crosse on July 2 at the Recreational Eagle Center on the UWL campus.This slide show contains pictures of the events leading up to his visit. It also contains photos from his last visit to La Crosse in October, 2008.  

Olympic hockey gold medalist Meaghan Mikkelson and her husband are prepared for all sorts of possibilities as they turn to Twitter to help name their baby boy.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- President Barack Obama brings his push to raise salaries for low-income workers to Wisconsin, the state where Gov. Scott Walker built his expected run for the White House around curtailing collective bargaining powers and enacting a right-to-work law. Obama is scheduled to appear Thursday in La Crosse. Walker's office has yet to say whether he will greet Obama in La Crosse for the visit. Obama and Walker clashed back in March when Walker signed the bill making Wisconsi...

Former Packers quarterback Brett Favre is featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated in a familiar jersey.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders says 9,500 people have said they plan to attend his rally on Wednesday night in Madison. 

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- Officials say they have increased security at the South Carolina Statehouse, where one man has been arrested after a fight over the Confederate flag. Public Safety Department spokeswoman Sherri Iacobelli says the Bureau of Protective Services has sent more officers to the downtown complex, where a Confederate flag has been a focus of protests since the fatal shooting of nine people at a historic black church in Charleston on June 17. A fight started about 7:15 p.m. M...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Officials say 12 more staffers at the New York prison where two killers escaped three weeks ago have been put on administrative leave -- including the prison's superintendent and his deputy in charge of security. An official with knowledge of the move tells The Associated Press that Clinton Correctional Facility Superintendent Steven Racette and Deputy Superintendent Stephen Brown are among those on leave. The official wasn't authorized to speak publicly and spoke on co...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican state senators are meeting behind closed doors to talk about the three main issues that have held up passage of a Wisconsin state budget for the past month. State Sen. Paul Farrow said Tuesday that senators planned to talk about roads funding, changes to the prevailing wage and the $500 million Milwaukee Bucks stadium plan. Senators were meeting in private with members of the Legislature's Fiscal Bureau, which analyzes budget proposals. Tuesday was the las...

More American workers would qualify for overtime with a plan President Barack Obama is proposing.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has launched a 2016 campaign for president.The Republican governor formally announced his plans in a Tuesday morning event in the gymnasium of his old high school.

A Pennsylvania thoroughbred track has canceled its racing card for a second day as officials deal with deer running onto the track during races.

MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian air force transport plane crashed into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city of Medan, killing at least 37 people. 

WASHINGTON (AP) -- If you're anywhere on the radar of the 2016 presidential campaigns, beware your inbox.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- An Indonesian air force Hercules C-130 plane crashed Tuesday into a residential neighborhood in the country's third-largest city of Medan, killing at least 20 people.