WEAU News Headlines

Alliant Energy is donating $2 million dollars to help low income families with heating costs.

Officers are responding to a reported bank robbery.

A Cornell man is now charged with repeated sexual assault of a child.

The sister of a white Madison Police officer who shot and killed an unarmed biracial man says his family supports what she called the "impulse" to protest the shooting.

The Milwaukee Brewers have exercised their 2016 option on manager Ron Roenicke.

A new union contract for about 360 members of the Wisconsin state patrol that included an average 17 percent pay increase has been rejected.

Fanny Hill is auctioning off thousands of items.

The La Crosse Police Department needs your help finding the people in a video who, they say, tore off the arm of a statue.

The Republican leader of the Wisconsin state Senate says he is looking at alternatives to Gov. Scott Walker's plan to help pay for a new arena for the Milwaukee Bucks basketball team.

Liberia's government has begun making payments to the families of health workers who died of Ebola in the world's worst ever outbreak.

The GOP-led House Budget Committee has given party-line approval to a sweeping balanced budget plan that adds $36 billion to President Barack Obama's request for overseas war funds but with restrictions on the money that are opposed by a sizable bloc of the party's defense hawks.

Wisconsin's private-sector job growth is half the national average, ranking 38th in the most recent 12-month reporting period.

The estimates show a preliminary seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 4.8 percent in February, down from 5.0% in January.

Madison Police Chief Mike Koval has criticized City Council members for remaining silent while members of the community denounce his department.

Target has proposed to pay $10 million to settle a class-action lawsuit brought against it following a massive data breach in 2013.

A Madison judge is set to hold a hearing on whether to temporarily block Wisconsin's new right-to-work law.

Authorities say a Milwaukee police officer shot and wounded an armed suspect overnight.

A Wisconsin man accused of bringing women to North Dakota's oil patch and forcing them into prostitution has been sentenced to 21 months in prison.

On Wednesday, community members got together to aim toward collaborative action plans focusing on improving overall community health.

The extremely dry, windy weather we've seen lately is creating a high risk for fire in western Wisconsin.