WEAU News Headlines

A new holiday tradition is in the works for downtown Eau Claire.

Investigators spent Wednesday searching 30 acres west of Waupaca that also were searched in 2000.

If you have signs up in your yard from the election, you'll have to take them down.

Chippewa Valley Technical College has been putting students into real-world scenarios as part of a week-long program.

Walker made a stop at Western Technical College's Welding and Apprenticeship lab. The governor was visiting technical colleges throughout the state Thursday as part of his Working for Wisconsin tour.

The crash happened just before 10 Thursday morning on the 800 block of East Main Street.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says changes to Common Core academic standards are definitely going to be addressed by the Legislature next year.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says the state elections board could be compromised of partisan appointees again, rather than nonpartisan retired judges.

Air Force officials say they believe an F-16 fighter jet has crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.

The NFL has formally begun a review of Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson's case, for potential punishment under the league's personal conduct policy.

Officials at the Milwaukee County Zoo say a female jaguar cub has died after she was attacked by another jaguar.

The La Crosse County Executive Committee is scheduled to discuss the proposal on Monday.

Average U.S. long-term mortgage rates rose this week, with the benchmark 30-year loan crawling back over 4 percent.

The Minnesota Supreme Court is being asked to overturn a Winona law that restricts the number of rental homes on each block.

A Washington state man shot and killed a bear mauling his hunting partner on a small Alaskan island and then its cub that popped out from some brush.

Traffic fatalities last month were eight fewer than in October 2013 and nine fewer than the five-year average for the month of October.

A Union Army officer killed more than 150 years ago during the Battle of Gettysburg is receiving the nation's highest military honor from President Barack Obama.

A consultant who provided Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke with material for her jobs plan that he also gave to other candidates is speaking out about accusations of plagiarism.

Gov. Scott Walker is touring the state's technical colleges rather than speak at a meeting of the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents.

An Eau Claire man accused of peeping in the window of 14-year-old girl and video taping her as she dressed, has now been charged.