Local Wausau News

Wisconsin's schools superintendent is warning the Legislature's budget committee that Gov. Scott Walker's K-12 education budget plan continues an unsustainable downward trend in funding.

A Wausau middle school is still grieving from the loss of one of its students.  

The woman accused of driving Isaiah Powell, 13, to the scene of a fatal Wausau stabbing, has been arrested.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he will sign into law a ban on abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

NEILLSVILLE (WAOW) - A former Curtiss leader pleaded no contest Tuesday to stealing thousands of dollars from the village in a scheme that prosecutors say altered minutes of a town board, according to online Clark County records.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - The state Public Service Commission took testimony Tuesday on Wausau's proposal to raise water rates to collect another $850,000, a 20 percent jump.

A law enforcement official tells The Associated Press that a Justice Department investigation has found patterns of racial bias in the Ferguson, Missouri, police department and at the municipal jail and court.

A machine called a horizontal grinder caught on fire Tuesday afternoon at Kafka Granite in Rothschild, according to the Rothschild Police Department.

A jury has been seated in the federal death penalty trial of Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

WISCONSIN RAPIDS (WAOW) – The merger of Riverview Hospital Association and Aspirus Inc. was finalized Tuesday, ending Riverview's more than 100 years of being a community-owned hospital.

A gun shop in Boise, Idaho, is struggling to keep up with demand for a certain type of ammunition. That's because the federal government is considering banning the bullets, which can pierce armor.

If you're waking up hungry, you're in luck! Today is National Pancake Day!

Republican Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is making his first trip to early primary state South Carolina later this month.

Citing concerns about the drug to be used in a lethal injection, Georgia corrections officials postponed the execution of the state's only female death row inmate for the second time in a week.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - School and law enforcement leaders are reassuring the community they are safe.

WAUSAU (WAOW) - Family members are grieving the death of 13-year-old Isaiah Powell.

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Guard Keifer Sykes has been selected as the Horizon League Player of the Year for a second straight season 

CINCINNATI (AP) -- No. 4 Villanova has clinched the top seed in the Big East tournament. The Wildcats have been the team to beat all season in one of the nation's toughest basketball conferences, top-to-bottom. 

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) -- Police in California say they will not file charges against Green Bay Packers cornerback Jarrett Bush in connection with a scrum outside a restaurant. 

The No. 3/4 UW-Stevens Point men's hockey team will host UW-River Falls in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Championship title game.