Local Wausau News

Gov. Scott Walker is set to sign a pair of bills loosening Wisconsin's gun laws.

Strawberry farmers in Wisconsin say the strawberry season is only about three weeks long.

A man in China is counting his lucky stars after a huge saw blade came crashing onto a highway and right into his car, and he survived. 

Authorities say the prison employee charged with helping two murderers escape from a New York prison smuggled tools to them by hiding the items in frozen hamburger meat.

A flag maker in the Milwaukee area says it will stop making and selling the Confederate flag, saying the decision was motivated by last week's shooting at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Samsung is working on technology to let people see through trucks on the road.

WESTON (WAOW)-- A barn in the Town of Weston is a total loss after it caught fire Tuesday.

An area fire chief is calling it a career after 3 decades of service.

 UW-Stevens Point is becoming more inclusive for students who don't identify with traditional male or female genders.

The Marathon County Public Library has gone to the dogs.

A Central Wisconsin medical campus hosted a job fair Tuesday, looking to fill full- and part-time certified nursing assistant positions.

The legislative committee that handles state workers' contracts has approved a new plan for state troopers.

Republican state Sen. Luther Olsen says lawmakers are "moving closer" toward a deal to end a nearly monthlong budget stalemate, and the goal remains to have a new two-year spending plan passed by July 1.

WAUSAU (WAOW) – A four-month-old baby is hospitalized in serious condition after police and ambulance crews were called to a home on a report of a baby choking on her feeding bottle, Wausau police said Tuesday. 

An Upper Peninsula man involved in the sale of thousands of untaxed packs of cigarettes won't go to prison for his crime.

A man suspected of shooting and wounding a Wauwatosa detective is now accused of robbing a woman at gunpoint in Milwaukee days earlier.

EBay is banning the sale of Confederate flags and similarly themed merchandise on its site because it has become a symbol of "divisiveness and racism."

One arrested after Tuesday morning accident near Stoughton.

A senior Pakistani health official says the death toll in the country's southern Sindh province, which has been struck by a heat wave, has reached 622.

Home rental prices are climbing across much of the United States -- with the biggest gains coming from not from New York or San Francisco but Jackson, Mississippi, and Portland, Maine.