Local Wausau News

The Forest County Potawatomi have filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government's rejection of compact language that would have left the state on the hook for reimbursing the tribe if the rival Menominee Nation gets a casino in Kenosha.

The Wisconsin Conservation Congress is gauging support for starting the state's wolf season later.

The House will vote next week on a border security bill as Republicans try to show they can chart their own course on immigration -- not just oppose President Barack Obama.

A woman in New York state says she came home to find her husband had allegedly torn down their suburban home while she was away.

For all of his 61 years, Sam Childress never knew his father. But now, that's changed.

A local state of emergency has been declared after a massive fire engulfed a New Jersey apartment complex across the Hudson River from New York City.

The government is releasing thousands of documents on the possible existence of aliens and UFOs.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Republican lawmakers hope their bill aimed at increasing Wisconsin's interstate speed limit to 70 mph will race its way through both chambers.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Sen. Tammy Baldwin is responding to an accusation that she didn't do enough to bring attention to overprescription of opiates at the VA Medical Center in Tomah.

PANGKALAN BUN, Indonesia (AP) -- Indonesian divers have retrieved six more bodies from waters around the fuselage of the AirAsia jetliner that crashed in December in seas near western Indonesia.

A meth lab was discovered in a Clark County hotel, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Department.

WAUSAU (WAOW)--Marathon County Crime Stoppers is asking for your help to solve a series of burglaries and thefts from the West 29 Storage Units in Weston. 

The Wisconsin man charged with killing and beheading another man in Wausau has learned his punishment.

MINOCQUA (WAOW) -- The giant snowman is back in Minocqua. He stands 30-feet-tall, wears a giant Stormy Kromer hat and is called "Snowmy Kromer."

A section of Highway 29 in Marathon County was closed after a crash near Highway 51.

A central Wisconsin bird has cheered his way into the hearts of people across the country. 

 The United Way of Marathon County is helping people get tech savvy.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Gov. Scott Walker's administration says the Menominee Nation's new gambling compact doesn't guarantee the state wouldn't have to pay a rival tribe hundreds of millions of dollars.

MARSHFIELD (WAOW) - A cleanup was underway Wednesday at a Marshfield industrial park where diesel fuel from an underground tank leaked, mixed with water and pooled in a ditch, authorities said.

Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers says he fears "more divisive mandates" for public schools are on the way, and he is calling on the Legislature to "hit the pause button."