WEAU News Headlines

You may see some decked-out big rigs driving through the area the next few days.

The Altoona City Council approves a mobile food pantry for less fortunate families in the city.

A La Crosse man is charged with first degree reckless homicide.

With the school year fast approaching, many families have started their back to school shopping.

A gas leak causes an explosion at a house in Chippewa County, leaving serious damage to the basement.

Activists weren't happy about a pig-wrestling fundraiser that a Green Bay-area church held, so they're offering the bishop cash if he takes the pig's place in the muddy pit.

Mike Fiers has stepped back into the Milwaukee Brewers' rotation in a big way -- and when they needed a boost.

Half of the U.S. senate, including Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, wants to block a plan to shut down mail processing plants next year.

The U.S. Drought Monitor shows parts of La Crosse and Crawford Counties and most of Vernon County are experiencing dryer than normal conditions.

It's not necessarily the books, the pencils, or the protractors teachers want to remind kids to be armed with as they get ready to come back to school.

Tony Stewart will not race in Sunday’s Pure Michigan 400 at Michigan International Speedway.

On Saturday, Dan Mattoon will be inducted into the American Ski Jumping Hall of Fame in Red Wing, Minnesota.

A man who owes $250,000 in Wisconsin child support has been arrested at an exclusive California country club.

One person is dead following a noon shooting at Innovative Optique, an eyeglass store in Bayside.

The wife of Robin Williams says he was in the early stages of Parkinson's disease and was sober at the time of his apparent suicide.

Wisconsin's unemployment rate inched higher to 5.8 percent in July.

Wisconsin's top elections official has rejected an open records request filed by two Republicans who wanted information about how much investigators have been paid to look into alleged illegal campaign activity by Gov. Scott Walker's recall campaign and other conservative groups.

Susan Happ and Brad Schimel are both prosecutors with their eyes on the attorney general's office. But they couldn't be further apart in their philosophies.

President Barack Obama says the U.S. has broken Islamic militants' siege on Iraq's Sinjar Mountain, but that airstrikes will continue.

In brief remarks near his vacation spot in Martha's Vineyard, Obama said he wants an open and transparent investigation of the shooting death of 18-year-old Michael Brown, so that justice is done.