WEAU News Headlines

You’ll soon be seeing a friendly and furry face at the Chippewa Valley Regional Airport.

The Senate has handed President Barack Obama a major victory by approving "fast track" authority to negotiate trade agreements in Asia and elsewhere.

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker says he didn't initially offer his opinion on whether the Confederate flag should be taken down from the Capitol grounds in South Carolina because Gov. Nikki Haley asked him to hold off speaking about it.

Gov. Scott Walker says if the U.S. Supreme Court strikes down health care subsidies, it's up to President Barack Obama and Congress to fix it and not the states.

Ladysmith police say investigators raided a home on Miner Avenue East in Ladysmith on Tuesday morning.

A federal judge has formally sentenced Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for the 2013 terror attacks.

The latest on the formal sentencing of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev

Gov. Scott Walker is hinting that a resolution to a transportation funding dispute that has held up progress on the state budget for nearly a month may be coming soon.

Gov. Mark Dayton says he is willing to postpone his trade mission to Mexico to appear in a federal court over the state's embattled sex offender treatment program.

The organizations made the announcement in a joint news conference Wednesday morning at Dove Healthcare West on Truax Blvd. in Eau Claire.

French President Francois Hollande says he spoke with President Barack Obama about revelations of U.S. eavesdropping on French leaders, and that Obama reiterated promises to stop spying tactics considered "unacceptable between allies."

The Obama administration says it won't add to the pain of hostages' families by threatening them with criminal prosecution if they pay ransom to terrorists.

A dump truck hit a power pole, causing an outage in Eau Claire's Shawtown neighborhood.

Two Democratic members of the board that runs Gov. Scott Walker's troubled economic development agency are calling for the CEO of the organization to resign.

A battle over one of the state's largest dairy farms is heading to the Wisconsin Court of Appeals after a circuit judge dismissed a request to overturn groundwater monitoring requirements imposed on the facility.

Ford Motor Co. is recalling more than 200,000 Transit Connect vans and Escape sport-utility vehicles because of instrument panel and seatbelt issues.

Republican Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald says he still does not have the votes to pass the state budget.

Gov. Scott Walker is set to sign a pair of bills loosening Wisconsin's gun laws.

A 62-year-old man has died after a kayaking accident in the Rock River in Horicon.

An invasive worm that's turned up in several parts of the state since being seen for the first time in Madison in 2013 is the target of a new public education campaign by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources.