Local Wausau News

Voter turnout is expected to be around 20 percent in Wisconsin for Tuesday's election, according to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board.

The governors of Wisconsin and Kentucky have made a friendly wager ahead of Saturday's big Final Four game.

For the first time in NFL history, the league will have a woman overseeing games.

Scott Walker's economic record as Wisconsin governor is a mixed one, and that poses complications as well as opportunity for him in the 2016 Republican presidential race.

Milwaukee Brewers mascot Bernie Brewer showed off his best moves in the Big Apple today on Good Morning America!

Wisconsin Badgers center Frank Kaminsky on Friday became the first Badgers Men's Basketball player to earn the Oscar Robertson Trophy as the U.S. Basketball Writers Association Player of the Year.

A Wisconsin lawmaker has introduced a bill that would ban felons from owning vicious dogs.

Safety defense classes are becoming more popular for children.

Emergency crews are on scene of a massive fire at a building at GE Appliance Park.

Wausau Police say they don't believe a man was trying to abduct a little girl in Wausau on Wednesday, according to Captain Greg Hagenbucher.

Emotional support animals can help people suffering from anxiety and other emotional disorders, but some pet owners are gaming the system in order to have their everyday pets travel with them for free.

The French air accident investigation agency says the co-pilot of the doomed Germanwings flight repeatedly accelerated the plane as he used the automatic pilot to descend the A320 into the Alps.

A 95-year-old Wausau woman got a special celebration Thursday.

 Swimmers in the Wausau area will have one less pool to enjoy this summer.

A Wausau teen went to the hospital after colliding with a car on his bicycle.

MARATHON COUNTY (WAOW)-- Marathon County Sheriff's Officials say there was a car crash on County Road H, just south of N.

Fans watching the Badgers Saturday night will have options for what they want in their viewing experience.

Volunteers in Stevens Point came together to send donations to Nicaragua for those in need.

Portage County investigators are staying tight lipped about the death of a man in the Town of Almond. 

Police have stepped up patrols around a small-town Indiana pizzeria after one of the owners said the state's new religious objections law backs their right to deny catering to a same-sex wedding.