WEAU News Headlines

Health experts want parents to be aware of a silent epidemic. It has to do with your ears or more importantly, your kids' ears.

A Dunn County Judge ordered 28-year-old David Thorne to serve a total of 5 1/2 years in prison with credit for about a year already served.

A new analysis finds that Wisconsin is the 12th highest taxed state in the country and third highest in the upper Midwest.

President Barack Obama is withdrawing Alaska's Bristol Bay from consideration for oil and gas drilling.

Sign-ups under President Barack Obama's health care law surged last week, driven by a deadline for getting covered by Jan. 1, officials said Tuesday. Unlike last year, the HealthCare.gov website was working well.

The airline says four passengers and a crew member needed hospital treatment, but none of those injuries are life-threatening.

Gov. Scott Walker is backing off his call for the Legislature to repeal Common Core academic standards, saying he simply wants to insure there is no mandate they be used.

Gov. Scott Walker says he wants to review whether hunting and fishing fees collected by the state should be used to pay for costs related to sighting an open pit iron ore mine near Lake Superior.

Representatives with the Eisenhower Center announced Tuesday that it will be the primary facility used by the NFL Players Association for treating brain injuries and other neurological issues through the After the Impact program.

Gov. Scott Walker says he's open to making changes to the nonpartisan board that oversees elections, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying laws in Wisconsin.

The mailbox thefts are occurring in the area of Tomah and Warrens.

A federal judge in Pittsburgh is declaring that President Barack Obama's recent executive actions on immigration are unconstitutional.

Pittsburgh coach Paul Chryst is moving closer to taking the head coaching job at Wisconsin.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's decision to "actively explore" running for president doesn't affect his own consideration of getting into the race.

Gov. Scott Walker says rabbis joked with him about a letter drafted in his name related to lighting a menorah for Hanukah that ends with him saying "molotov" instead of "mazel tov."

As the deputy was about to exit his vehicle the driver of the stopped vehicle put his vehicle in reverse and backed up ramming the Sheriff’s Department vehicle and then fled the area.

NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, has detected spikes of methane in the planet's atmosphere.

Court records show that Benjamin Craig, 32, of Eau Claire entered the plea to a charge of Robbery with the Threat of Force on Tuesday.

The Rice Lake man charged and convicted of second degree intentional homicide of a Barron County man has been sentenced to 20 years today.

Evidence that helped convict a Wisconsin Rapids man of a 2008 homicide will come into play when he goes on trial for the 1984 shooting death of his wife.