WEAU News Headlines

Gov. Scott Walker is proclaiming Monday as Martin Luther King Jr. Day across the state.

Police say two people trying to enter the U.S. from Mexico have been arrested in South Texas on fraud charges that could be related to the theft of personal data from Target retail stores.

Students at Middleton High School will no longer have access to their cellphones during test times. The new policy follows allegations of widespread cheating.

The Department of Natural Resources is considering a move to online deer registration as soon as this fall. Hunters would also be able to register their kills with a phone call.

The Wisconsin Assembly is poised to take up a bill this week that would bar employers from asking workers or job applicants for access to their social media accounts such as Facebook.

The body of a Wisconsin man who died earlier this month in a car accident has been found in the Mississippi River.

Dozens of people jumped into cold water on Lake Wissota to raise money for charity.

Police are investigating a shooting that left three people wounded outside a liquor store in western Wisconsin.

Authorities are investigating the derailment of about 19 cars on a Union Pacific coal train in the southeastern Wisconsin city of Caledonia.

The Wisconsin DNR says snowmobilers should slow down, avoid alcohol, wear helmets and take a safety course.

A man who sheriff's officials believe is connected to a widespread methamphetamine operation has been captured in Milwaukee.

The Marshfield Police Department is looking for the suspect of a hit and run that sent one person to the hospital.

A former mayor of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin is jailed in southern Wisconsin after being convicted of second-offense operating while intoxicated.

Team Slovenia's Mikael Kveder set a Silver Mine ski hill record for the second night in a row as he soared 96 meters Saturday night to capture the 2014 US Cup at Silver Mine Hill.

The free ice fishing weekend is now underway. Many traded the warm comfort of their living room couch for a slab of ice and an ice shack.

Jumpers began trials at the 128th annual Silver Mine Invitational in Eau Claire on Friday night.

Here are opening night highlights from the 128th Silver Mine Ski Jumping Invitational from Friday, January 17, 2014.

On SportScene 13 for Friday, January 17, 2014, prep basketball and hockey highlights including: Boys Basketball: E.C. Memorial at Rice Lake, Onalaska at E.C. North, Fall Creek at E.C. Regis, Chetek/Weyerhaeuser at Barron Girls Basketball: Rice Lake at E.C. Memorial, Menomonie at Chippewa Falls Boys Hockey: Menomonie at E.C. Memorial

Several neighborhoods are left without water, after a water main break off Truax Blvd.

A vacant building that used to house the Eau Claire’s Parks and Recreation Department has plans to become a 22-unit apartment complex.