Local Wausau News

The UW-Stevens Point hockey team finished runner-up for the second straight year after falling to Trinity 5-2 in the national championship game Saturday night at Ridder Arena in Minneapolis.

A morning flag-raising at Ho-Chunk Gaming marked the anniversary of the last American troops leaving Vietnam.

The 29th annual Palm Sunday dinner at the Marshfield Eagles Club attracted more than 200 people.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is defending the new state law that's garnered widespread criticism over concerns it could foster discrimination and said it wasn't a mistake for the state to have enacted it.

CLARK COUNTY (WAOW)-- One person is dead after a two car crash in Clark County Sunday morning.

KIEL, Wis. (AP) -- A 21-year-old Wisconsin state trooper killed in a shootout with a bank robbery suspect is being remembered in his hometown.

Immigration has become a wiggly subject for the 2016 Republican presidential hopefuls.

Wisconsin voters will decide April 7 whether to amend the state constitution to let state Supreme Court justices choose their leader.

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is defending the new state law that's garnered widespread criticism over concerns it could foster discrimination and said it wasn't a mistake for the state to have enacted it.

Frank Kaminsky and the Wisconsin Badgers hung on to make the Final Four again. "Frank the Tank" scored 29 points, Sam Dekker added his second straight career high of 27 and the West Regional's top seed beat No. 2 Arizona 85-78 on Saturday to reach consecutive Final Fours for the first time in school history.

Ryan Braun extended his torrid stretch with two more hits and two RBIs for the Milwaukee Brewers in a 3-2 loss to the Cleveland Indians on Saturday.

More than a dozen children got in on some Easter fun in Weston today.

Some chilly temperatures are putting the maple syrup industry in a sticky situation.

Frank Kaminsky had a game-high 29 points, Sam Dekker chipped in a career-high 27, and the Wisconsin Badgers are heading back to the Final Four after an 85-78 victory over the Arizona Wildcats.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Officials say a Metro commuter train slammed into a car at a crossing in front of the University of Southern California today, seriously injuring the driver and the train's operator.

COLBURN, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say a 21-year-old father and his 6-month-old child were killed when a pickup truck read-ended their horse-drawn buggy in western Wisconsin.

Three Wausau police officers will show their support at the funeral for a fallen Wisconsin state trooper.

Natalie Jakusz is performing in her last ice shows this weekend as a high school student, and the timing couldn't be better.

A house in the Township of Winchester in Vilas County has been declared a total loss after a Saturday afternoon fire.

According to the Wood County Sheriff's Department, six people were hurt in a two car crash in Wood County Saturday at 2:45 p.m.