WEAU News Headlines

Gov. Scott Walker has signed a Republican-authored bill that would ensure scores on the statewide Badger Exam public school children are taking this spring aren't used against teachers or put on report cards measuring school performance.

Eau Claire's American Legion Auxiliary Unit 53 is holding an annual poppy drive May 21, 22, 23.

A sweeping proposal giving control of the lowest-performing schools in Milwaukee to a commissioner who could fire all the teachers and administrators also applies to other large, racially diverse school districts in Wisconsin.

Gov. Scott Walker has signed a bill that allows state transportation officials to raise the speed limit to 70 mph on some Wisconsin roads

A woman is in the hospital after getting hit by a driver who crossed the center line.

Wisconsin disability advocates say the Legislature's finance committee move to approve a special needs voucher program amounted to a "budgetary sneak attack."

A laceration hazard has prompted Electrolux to recall some Kenmore Elite Ranges.

An appellate court has invalidated statutes that required misdemeanor convicts to pay a DNA surcharge before they had to submit an actual sample.

A man charged with killing his girlfriend in Janesville a year ago has pleaded guilty to the homicide in an agreement with prosecutors.

Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he doesn't have the votes to repeal the state's prevailing wage law, but he hopes to reform the statutes through the state budget.

A Menards store was locked down while police in Grand Chute negotiated with an armed suspect in the parking lot.

The Red Cross is assisting three dozen people displaced by an apartment fire in West Bend.

A Florida company has an agreement to buy a hotel in downtown Appleton.

The Legislature's budget committee wants to require Wisconsin high school students to pass the civics portion of the U.S. citizenship test to graduate despite misgivings from educators.

Health officials are working with a Kenosha grocery store to find out how a salmonella outbreak started and sickened nearly two dozen people.

Gov. Scott Walker's proposal prohibiting the state superintendent from forcing local school districts to adopt Common Core academic standards has been approved by the Legislature's budget committee.

Tuesday the center offered a free workshop specifically aimed at teaching women skills like defensive driving, what happens when an airbag is deployed and how to break a glass to escape from your vehicle.

On Tuesday, the state Department of Employee Trust Fund’s Group Insurance Board approved the measure on a 9-2 vote.

It's official, Eau Claire County has a new administrator.