WEAU News Headlines

Sheriff's officials say a mother saved her three young children from injury as a tornado hit their house in Waupaca County.

A woman and a child are hurt after a car crash in the Town of Northfield on Sunday afternoon.

An attorney for a Minnesota man accused in a fatal stabbing along the St. Croix River says charges against him should be dropped.

A woman sitting several rows behind the Milwaukee Brewers' dugout has been injured when she was hit by a line drive off the bat of Atlanta's Eury Perez.

Authorities say a 59-year-old man has died after taking part in scuba diving exercises at a Wisconsin lake where another diver died eight days earlier.

Barstow is now closed from Eau Claire Street to the river bridge. Eau Claire Street is also shut down from Graham Avenue to South Farwell Street.

The HSHS Sacred Heart Family Care-Menomonie Clinic opened Monday, and will be accepting new patients.

The Plan Commission decided to postpone the vote on whether to approve the site for a new Hardee's in Eau Claire, saying members need more time to discuss it.

As Wisconsin finalizes its state budget, many UW-System schools worry, classes dealing with diversity and multicultural studies may disappear.

The Eau Claire Plan Commission will vote on a proposed wind turbine at the Chippewa Valley Technical College’s West Campus Monday night.

Jerry Weintraub, the dynamic producer and manager who pushed the career of John Denver and produced such hit movies as "Nashville" and "Ocean's Eleven," has died. He was 77.

Carly Fiorina says she has raised $1.4 million to support her underdog bid for the Republican presidential nomination.

Worried about "Republican on Republican violence," top party donors are taking action, with one firing off a letter calling for more civility and another seeking to block businessman Donald Trump from the debate stage altogether.

Police say a 9-year-old boy has died after he was allegedly handcuffed and beaten for eating a piece of birthday cake without permission.

The Wisconsin Senate will take up the state budget, a 6 percent raise for state troopers and a new compensation plan for thousands of other state workers that contains no general wage increases on Tuesday.

47 year-old Rodney 'Ram' Seibel and his son, 21 year-old Jeremy Seibel, died Thursday after they were overcome by gas in a manure pit at their farm south of Bloomer.

Highway K, north of Jim Falls and near the Cobban Bridge, is closed due to high and fast moving water covering the road.

A survey asking married couples for specific information about their spouse has turned up some shocking results about how little one spouse might know about the other.

A man was arrested after police had been looking for him for more than a week.

Skiers from all over the world could be flocking to Western Wisconsin as soon as this winter.