WEAU News Headlines

The Republican-controlled House has scrapped plans to vote on approving the display of the Confederate flag at Park Service-run cemeteries in the wake of furious protests from Democrats.

Firefighters were shuttled by boat to fight a blaze on an island off Door County.

Experts are trying to gauge the threat to Minnesota from a deadly water parasite that's more common in warmer southern states.

A local woman is earning recognition for her art as a finalist in the Wisconsin State Fair's poster art competition.

The Minneapolis city attorney wants to sue the architectural firm that designed the memorial to the victims of the 2007 interstate bridge collapse.

Officials have doubled the number of searchers combing the Wyoming wilderness for three Midwestern sisters who have been missing for days.

The Menards home improvement chain plans to stop selling a vinyl flooring that contains a toxic chemical.

Eleven Assembly Republicans joined with 35 Democrats in voting against the Wisconsin state budget.

The state Assembly is set to take up a bill that would ban non-emergency abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy.

The Wisconsin state budget is now in Gov. Scott Walker's hands.

The call went out just after 7pm tonight, for a crash on Highway 95, north of Hatfield and east of Merrillan near West Sherwood Road.

It's day one of the Northern Wisconsin State Fair, but along with the excitement of the rides, and fair food, comes some concern surrounding the poultry exhibits.

The House has narrowly passed a Republican-led rewrite of the Bush-era No Child Left Behind education law.

The Coulee Region Humane Society teamed up with Home Depot to build three vegetable gardens at the shelter.

The DNR and area health departments are warning private well owners recent flash flooding could affect your water supply.

Chippewa Falls welcomed its new school superintendent, who is making history for the district.

Sheriff Jim Kowalczyk says deputies are using cadaver dogs to search the area of Highway 27, near the Chippewa/Rusk County line.

Carlos Gomez hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the eighth inning and also had a solo shot in the sixth to help the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Atlanta Braves 6-5 on Wednesday.

The state Supreme Court will hear a lawsuit challenging the governor's power to block new education rules.

The Republican-controlled state Assembly was expected to pass the two-year state budget Wednesday, which would send the $73 billion two-year spending plan to Gov. Scott Walker. The governor can use his powerful veto authority to edit or remove items before he signs it into law.