WEAU News Headlines

Madison Mayor Paul Soglin says he's cautious about giving police body cameras and isn't saying what sort of impact on the investigation into a white officer killing a biracial man they might have had.

Gov. Scott Walker says President Barack Obama should be looking to states like Wisconsin as examples for how to grow the economy, rather than criticize his signing of a right-to-work bill into law.

Officials say a fire at a wastewater treatment plant in St. Paul was apparently started by a spark from a saw used by a contract worker.

Thick ice is delaying the resumption of shipping on the Upper Mississippi River.

Eleven people charged following a large demonstration at the Mall of America last December pleaded not guilty as their supports jammed into the Hennepin County courthouse in Edina.

Randall Cobb passed up five offers to stay in a comfortable situation with the Green Bay Packers.

The U.S. Coast Guard is urging people to use caution on Great Lakes waterways due to warmer temperatures and unstable ice.

In a not so public move, Burger King has dropped soft drinks from its kids' menu.

Target Corp. says it is laying off 1,700 workers and permanently closing out another 1,400 open positions.

Assembly Republicans are moving ahead with plans to sanction failing Wisconsin public schools.

A Wisconsin business owner upset over enactment of a right-to-work law and other policies says he is expanding in Minnesota because the economic policies there are more conducive for his operation.

Commonweal Development, Inc. will donate $100,000 to the Confluence Project’s performing arts center’s fundraising campaign.

A northern Wisconsin teenager is charged with killing her mother and stepfather and holding the couple's three younger children against their will.

A late night fire in Jackson County left a pole shed a total loss.

Police secured the area and closed a portion of Highway 12 nearby.

A man who fell asleep behind the wheel and struck and killed a bicyclist is sentenced in Dane County to a year in jail.

Wisconsin state lawmakers are considering a proposal that would delay the reporting of results from tests given to students this spring.

A group of citizens has gone to court in La Crosse County to try to block BNSF Railway's plans to build tracks through the La Crosse River marsh.

In statehouses nationwide, Republicans lawmakers are working to weaken organized labor, sometimes with efforts that directly shrink union membership.

Authorities in Wisconsin say a likely cyberattack has affected the city of Madison's website and email system, as well as computers used by law enforcement countywide.