WEAU News Headlines

The State Capitol evacuated Wednesday afternoon due to a credible bomb threat.

The man arrested after police had been searching for him for more than a week has been charged.

Medicare says it plans to pay doctors to counsel patients about end-of-life care.

A search is being conducted in northwest Wyoming for three Wisconsin sisters who failed to return from an extended camping trip.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker says 12 communities across the U.S. will receive special attention and access for federal funding to help attract manufacturing companies and create jobs.

Fire officials say two workers were rescued after scaffolding broke outside a downtown Minneapolis tower.

An 18-year-old girl has died after getting hit by a train in Alma Tuesday night around 9 PM.

Hyundai is recalling about 140,000 Sonata midsize cars in the U.S. and Canada to fix a problem with the front passenger seat belt buckles.

The acting Inspector General of the Veterans Affairs Administration retired last week. Before he stepped down he failed to make public reports exposing problems at the VA Medical Center in Tomah, Wisconsin.

The Ho-Chunk Nation will donate $50,000 to an area park.

The Wisconsin Assembly has passed a bill that would give state troopers a 6 percent raise.

A group of Democrats is asking a federal court to throw out Wisconsin's legislative district maps drawn by Republicans in 2011.

Scott Walker's campaign says the Republican governor will hit four early voting states following his official announcement next week that he's in the presidential race.

A Minnesota couple has given Lawrence University a $1.5 million gift to establish a professorship in innovation.

The state Assembly is poised to take up the state budget and move the spending plan to Gov. Scott Walker.

Microsoft will cut 7,800 jobs and take a $7.6 billion impairment charge to restructure its flagging phone hardware business.

State natural resources officials say some invasive snails with parasites deadly to waterfowl are continuing to spread in Wisconsin waterways.

The FAA says all United Airlines flights at all airports have been grounded.

A bank has announced a $7,500 donation to help renovate parts of the Beaver Creek Reserve near Fall Creek.

The Republican-controlled state Senate passed the two-year state budget Tuesday on an 18-15 vote.