Local Wausau News

WINCHESTER (WAOW) - A homeowner reported lighting likely caused a fire Thursday that destroyed the rural home, the Vilas County Sheriff's Department said. 

MERRILL (WAOW) - The band director at Merrill High School suspended with pay exchanged hundreds of messages with a 16-year-old girl, according to Lincoln County court documents reviewed Thursday. 

The man accused in the drowning death of his infant son in Milwaukee has pleaded not guilty. 

Images of the flooding from Thursday morning storms.

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- Our Lincoln Co. Petsaver for this week is Will.  

WAUSAU (WAOW)-- Salena Schultz is a survivor.  In June of 2014 doctors diagnosed Schultz with stage-two breast cancer.  

It was a pretty sweet morning on Wake Up Wisconsin. Briq's Soft Serve is the “home of the one pound cone.”

Newsline 9's Josh Holland likes to have fun at the anchor desk, but when he came down with a bug Thursday morning it seemed serious for Wake Up anchor Rebecca Ribley.

The Manitowoc Company says more than 500 jobs will be lost in Wisconsin when it moves its crane manufacturing operations out of the state.

After a few years off, a popular 3-on-3 basketball tournament is coming back to central Wisconsin.

A teenager has died after breaking into a municipal swimming pool in Milwaukee. 

The sports world was shocked today by the passing of legendary reporter and host John Saunders. 

A federal appeals court on Wednesday blocked a pathway for Wisconsin residents without the required photo identification to vote in the presidential election just three months away. 

Batman, a black cat with four ears, has found a forever home after spending a month at the Western Pennsylvania Humane Society in Pittsburgh.

A Houston, Texas, mother said her "worst nightmare" was realized recently when she learned that someone had hacked into a webcam positioned in her two daughters' bedroom and had been streaming their private goings-on live online for thousands to watch.

A rally in protest of police violence against black people that turned into an impromptu march in protest of the arrest of the rally organizer has ended peacefully.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- The attorney for the family of a black man whose fatal neck injury in the back of a police van touched off riots in Baltimore says a Justice Department report indicates there are "widespread human cancers" in the city's police department. 

Supporters of a voter initiative legalizing marijuana in Arizona say they've been told the measure has made the November ballot.

Federal officials say search warrants were executed at several Madison area gas stations Wednesday, after the operators of the locations were confronted with enforcement in the past over the sale of synthetic marijuana.

Downtown Grocery in Wausau will be returning to its original location on Third Street.