WEAU News Headlines

Construction is underway on a new sports complex in the area.

A local law enforcement agency has a new chief.

During this National Nurses Week, the profession is going through some changes in its workforce – and those effects are felt in western Wisconsin.

Police say a young Detroit girl who found a gun under her grandmother's pillow accidentally shot herself and died.

The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay's Faculty Senate has passed a resolution expressing no confidence in UW system leaders.

Joy Global Inc. is shutting down its heavy welding and fabrication operations in Milwaukee, resulting in the loss of about 130 jobs.

Police say all 46 people aboard a tourist catamaran have been rescued after the vessel caught fire and sank on Australia's Great Barrier Reef.

A judge has found a man who acknowledged killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic mentally incompetent to continue with his criminal case.

Authorities in South Carolina say a barber with a history of aggressive behavior toward potential customers faces charges for pulling a gun on a man and telling him he "does not cut black hair."

A toxic duo of plaques and tangles interact to drive Alzheimer's disease, and now researchers say it's the tangles that may better predict early symptoms.

A Massachusetts man accused of locking a Verizon worker inside an unventilated underground vault because he was upset the worker parked on his grass has pleaded guilty to kidnapping.

The Treasury Department says the government posted a budget surplus in April, but the deficit so far for the 2016 year remains wider than it was in 2015.

A global finance leader claims that as much as $2 trillion in bribe money courses through developing and developed countries each year.

Authorities say the fire that caused the deadly explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant in 2013 was a criminal act.

The date has been set for the 2018 NFL Super Bowl to be played in Minneapolis.

Customs officials seized nearly 70 pounds of opium from three Minnesota women arriving at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on a flight from Southeast Asia.

Authorities say a small plane has struck a deer and flipped over while trying to land at a New Hampshire airport.

The case against an American Airlines co-pilot accused of drunkenness at Detroit Metropolitan Airport has been delayed because the man is at a treatment center.

A man who won $1 million in the New York Lottery for a second time remembers thinking: "This is impossible."

A Pennsylvania high school student barred from attending prom at her Catholic high school because she wore a suit rather than a dress has been invited to another school's prom.