Local Wausau News

For the second straight year, Wisconsin and Arizona will face off in the NCAA West Regional Final, but things look much different this season. Tipoff is at 5:09 p.m. on TBS.

Bradley University has hired Brian Wardle as its new basketball coach. Wardle led Wisconsin-Green Bay to the 2014 Horizon League regular-season championship and three straight postseason appearances in five years.

Scooter Gennett opened the game with a solo homer and Jonathan Lucroy had a two-run shot in the first inning to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to an 8-5 victory over the Cincinnati Reds on Friday night.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin voters will decide April 7 whether to amend the state constitution to let state Supreme Court justices choose their leader.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to threatening Governor Scott Walker's adult son on Twitter.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Wisconsin's attempt to ban same-sex marriages will cost taxpayers more than $1 million.

KENOSHA, Wis. (AP) -- Authorities say they safely detonated a suspicious package that was found outside a Planned Parenthood clinic in Kenosha.

JANESVILLE, Wis. (AP) -- Interstate 90 near Janesville is open once again after a chemical spill shut down the freeway for much of the day Friday.

An early Saturday morning disturbance at a Mosinee bar is under investigation, according to the Marathon County Sheriff's Department.

Police say a decorated Boston officer has been in a medically induced coma fighting for his life since he was shot in the face during a traffic stop.

Police are searching for at least two people still missing after an apparent gas line explosion leveled three New York City apartment buildings.

The UW-Stevens Point men's hockey team will play for the national championship on Saturday, after overcoming a 2-0 deficit to win Friday's national semifinal matchup over Amherst (MA).

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) - A Green Bay Packers player traded in his cleats for bowling shoes for an evening.

STEVENS POINT (WAOW) - Leaders at UW-Stevens Point are closely looking at the possible impact of Governor Scott Walker's proposed budget cuts.

 The 17th annual lawn, garden, home and recreation expo kicked off Friday at the central Wisconsin Convention and Expo Center in Rothschild. free. It runs through Sunday.

Two referendum questions in next month's election ask voters to raise taxes for homeowners in the Wausau School District.

A man in Stevens Point is working to make his dream of becoming an Olympian come true. 

RHINELANDER (WAOW) – The Oneida County Sheriff's Department says a drug investigation targeting methamphetamine led to the search of a Rhinelander home and the arrest of five people.  

FRIENDSHIP (WAOW) – The Adams County Sheriff's Department says a 40-year-old man is dead of a possible drug overdose.

A 61-year-old Kenosha man has been arrested in connection with the nearly 25-year-old murder of a Sturtevant woman whose body was found in a ditch weeks after she disappeared.