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With less than five weeks until Election Day, a new poll shows Gov. Scott Walker is slightly ahead of Democrat Mary Burke in the race for Wisconsin governor.

Board members will soon decide whether to require a $30 annual vehicle registration fee, or wheel tax, for vehicle owners in Clark County.

Vernon County Crime Stoppers says sometime during the night of Friday, September 26, 2014, a house on Ridge Road northwest of the City of Hillsboro was burglarized.

CVRA is being awarded a $150,000 grant with a $15,000 local match that will come from existing airport marketing funds.

The Legislature's budget committee plans to meet Tuesday to consider a request to spend about $461,000 to educate voters about the voter identification law before the Nov. 4 election.

Green Lake County's top prosecutor says he expects to file homicide charges against the husband of a woman found fatally shot along with another man in Berlin.

Brad Schimel, a Republican, currently serves as Waukesha County's district attorney. His Democratic opponent, Susan Happ, is the Jefferson County district attorney.

The World Dairy Expo is offering interpreters to help hundreds of international visitors feel at home in Madison.

U.S. construction spending fell in August, the second decline in the past three months, with housing, non-residential and government projects all showing weakness.

A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of four suburban Milwaukee YMCA properties for $9 million.

Wisconsin's largest school district has appointed its first permanent female superintendent.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says drivers should stay alert for deer this fall after more than 18,000 vehicle crashes with deer were reported last year.

Wisconsin wildlife officials are reminding waterfowl hunters to leave trumpeter swans and whooping cranes alone.

The fastest and surest path to marriage for same-sex couples in some states would be for the Supreme Court to surprise everyone and decline to get involved in the issue right now.

Lieske Giese, with the Eau Claire City-County Health Department, answers some common questions on Ebola.

People in Lake Hallie got a chance to voice their opinions Tuesday night about some changes to a stretch of Business 53

The director of the Chippewa Valley Free Clinic says they've seen less need for the clinic that offers basic and preventative care to people who have no other option.

The Eau Claire Post Office is now operating out of a temporary location.

Deputies are still searching for the Huber inmate who never returned to jail last month.

Organizers are still looking for sponsors for two fields at a new sports complex that's in the works on Eau Claire's west side.