MILADORE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Sherry Volunteer Fire Department faced questions from village leaders and residents about 16 cited violations during a meeting last Thursday. The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services flagged these violations, sparking concerns over the department's future. The fire dep...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The line-up for this summer's Big Bull Falls Blues Fest in Wausau has been announced. The event is August 21st and 2nd at Fern Island Park. Friday's line-up: Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max at 5pm, followed by the Raine Stern Band at 7pm and Ally Venable at 9pm. Saturday's line-up T...

SEATTLE, WA (WSAU) The Badgers bounced back after an ugly loss on Wednesday to Oregon with a 90-73 win at Washington on Saturday. Braeden Carrington had a career high 32-points, including 9 three-pointers. Nick Boyd added 22. Wisconsin pulled away with a 10-0 run in the middle of the second half. The Badgers (20-9.,12...

By Parisa Hafezi WASHINGTON, Feb. 28 (Reuters) - The 36-year rule of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei built Iran into a powerful anti-U.S. force, spreading its military sway across the Middle East, while using an iron fist to crush repeated unrest at home. He wa...

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran on Saturday that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and plunged the Middle East into a new conflict. The strikes put nearby oil-producing Gulf Arab countries on edge as fear of es...

MILADORE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Sherry Volunteer Fire Department faced questions from village leaders and residents about 16 cited violations during a meeting last Thursday. The Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services flagged these violations, sparking concerns over the department's future. The fire dep...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The line-up for this summer's Big Bull Falls Blues Fest in Wausau has been announced. The event is August 21st and 2nd at Fern Island Park. Friday's line-up: Howard "Guitar" Luedtke & Blue Max at 5pm, followed by the Raine Stern Band at 7pm and Ally Venable at 9pm. Saturday's line-up T...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The 31-year-old suspect in the disappearance of Jon "Jake" Morgan, who went missing six years ago, made her first court appearance on Friday. Desiree Osman has been charged with first-degree reckless homicide, party to a crime of hiding a corpse, delivering up to three grams of heroi...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point man accused of stealing a Wisconsin Rapids ambulance during a patient transport, then taking the vehicle on a 40-minute joyride, will return to court next month for a competency hearing. Benjamin Felts faces ten counts, including felony charges for recklessly endangering...

WESTON, WI (WSAU) -- Two D.C. Everest students have been selected to perform at an event in Normandy, France, marking the 85th anniversary of World War II. Ember Meadows and Emma Danke auditioned for the spots last year and were selected along with 60 other students from across the nation. They will travel to Washingto...

SEATTLE, WA (WSAU) The Badgers bounced back after an ugly loss on Wednesday to Oregon with a 90-73 win at Washington on Saturday. Braeden Carrington had a career high 32-points, including 9 three-pointers. Nick Boyd added 22. Wisconsin pulled away with a 10-0 run in the middle of the second half. The Badgers (20-9.,12...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The New York Knicks controlled Friday's contest from start to finish, outlasting the Milwaukee Bucks 127-98. Myles Turner led the way with 19 points. Kyle Kuzma added 17. Kevin Porter Jr. scored a double-double with 11 points and 10 rebounds. As usual, Bobby Portis was a spark plug off the bench...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- Green Bay Packers season ticket holders will be paying more next season. Seats for next season's lone home preseason game will increase betwen $2 and $10, depending on location. Prices for the nine regular-season home games are going up between $4 and $22 per game. Members with the Green package...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Thursday Boys Basketball (Regular Season) Rapids Assumption 49 Wausau Newman 48 Stevens Point 72 DC Everest 63 Wausau West 55 Wisconsin Rapids 52 Edgar 64 Marathon 52 Marshfield 75 Wausau East 38 Medford 80 Tomahawk 28 Merrill ...

SURPRISE, AZ (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers won their 3rd spring game in a row as they dumped the Texas Rangers 5-1 on Thursday. Tyler Black stayed hot with a 3-4 performamce which included a single, double and triple with two RBIs. He is 8-12 so far in spring training as he tries to earn a spot on the Opening Day Ros...

WASHINGTON DC (WSAU-WAOW) - The Apostle Islands National Park and Preserve Act, introduced by Rep. Tom Tiffany of Wisconsin, has advanced out of the House Committee on Natural Resources with a narrow 20-17 vote. This legislation aims to designate the Apostle Islands as Wisconsin's first National Park. "The Apostl...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan, the Milwaukee County judge convicted of obstructing ICE agents last month, has resigned. In a letter to Governor Tony Evers, she wrote: "As you know, I am the subject of unprecedented federal legal proceedings, which are far from concluded but which present immense and complex ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Hannah Dugan's felony conviction on Thursday disqualifies her from serving as a Milwaukee County judge, unless it is overturned on appeal. Dugan was convicted of obstructing ICE agents who arrived at the Milwaukee County courthouse to arrest an illegal immigrant who was appearing in her courtroom...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) A federal jury in Milwaukee deliberated for six hours before finding judge Hannah Dugan of obstructing ICE agents. Dugan helped an illegal immigrant leave her courtroom through a private hallway to avoid arrest. She was aquitted on a misdemeanor concealment charge. The conviction is a felony, puni...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) A $4.25 million multistate settlement has been reached with Menards, over allegations of deceptive marketing practices. The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and Attorney General Josh Kaul announced the settlement, which resolves claims related to Menards' mercha...

By Phil Stewart and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Reuters) - Supernatural thriller "Sinners" claimed the Actor Award for best movie cast on Sunday, a victory that sets up a face-off with "One Battle After Another" for the prestigious Best Picture prize at the upc...

By Shariq Khan and Jarrett Renshaw NEW YORK, March 1 (Reuters) - U.S. average retail gasoline prices are set to break above $3 a gallon on Monday for the first time in more than three months as the conflict between the United States and major oil produ...

March 1 (Reuters) - A medal awarded at the first modern Olympic Games smashed auction estimates, ​selling for about four times ‌its expected high price at a Danish auction house on Sunday. The silver medal from the 1896 Athens Olympics was ‌hammered ​d...

By Jason Lange WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Only one in four Americans approves of the U.S. strikes that killed Iran's leader, while about half - including one in four Republicans - believe President Donald Trump is too willing to use military ​forc...

March 2 (Reuters) - Kuwait intercepted hostile drones on Monday, the third consecutive day ​of Iranian retaliatory ‌strikes on neighbouring Gulf states in response to U.S. and Israeli attacks on the Islamic Republic. No ‌injuries ​were reported ⁠after ...

By Phil Stewart and Humeyra Pamuk WASHINGTON, March 1 (Reuters) - Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff on Sunday that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack U.S. forces first...

By Rami Ayyub, Alexander Cornwell, Nayera Abdallah, Maha El Dahan and Laila Bassam JERUSALEM/TEL AVIV/DUBAI/BEIRUT, March 2 (Reuters) - Israel launched new air strikes targeting Tehran and expanded its military campaign to include attacks on Iran-backe...

KATHMANDU, March 2 (Reuters) - Nepal is set to vote on Thursday in a pivotal general election that comes months after historic protests led to the resignation of the government. The landlocked Himalayan nation has been riven by political instability fo...

By Sahana Bajracharya DAMAK, Nepal, March 2 (Reuters) - Everybody wants a photograph with Balendra Shah. The rapper-turned-politician - better known as Balen - dominating Nepal's electoral race was surrounded by supporters in the country's east last we...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, March 2 (Reuters) - Scaling up production in Europe could cut the cost gap between EU-made batteries and those coming from China to around 30% from ​a current 90%, transport and environment campaign group T&E ‌said in a r...

MOSCOW, March 2 (Reuters) - Russia's manufacturing sector continued to contract in February, but the pace of decline eased for the second consecutive month as ​new orders stabilised, S&P Global reported on ‌Monday. The Purchasing Managers' Index (PMI) ...

COPENHAGEN, March ​2 (Reuters) - ‌Registrations of new ‌Tesla ​cars ⁠in ⁠Denmark fell 18% ​in ⁠February ⁠from ​a ​year earlier, to ‌419 vehicles, ⁠data from Mobility ⁠Denmark ‌showed ⁠on ​Monday. (Reporting ‌by Anna ​Ringstrom, ⁠editing by Stine ​Jaco...

MUMBAI, March 2 (Reuters) - Interest rates in India will remain "around this level or lower" for ​a long time, barring any ‌shocks, the country's central bank governor told the Economic Times newspaper in an interview published on Monday. Here are ‌som...

March 2 (Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. Suddenly, everyone's an expert on crude shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Marine Traffic shows the red dots of tankers piling up each side of the vital wat...

Feb 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved Ascendis Pharma's ​once-weekly therapy for children with ‌a rare genetic disorder that causes dwarfism, the company said. The treatment, branded Yuviwel, is a once-weekly inje...

By Tom Polansek CHICAGO, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss that veterinarians and industry members suspect may be linked to an unusually cold winter. Infection...

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Aardvark Therapeutics is voluntarily pausing its late-stage trial testing its experimental treatment for a type of rare genetic ​disease after it found heart-related side effects ‌in healthy volunteers, the company said on Friday. Th...

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Chile denied permission for a Chinese hospital ship to provide medical services onboard, saying the vessel lacked authorization ​to treat local residents, a decision that came ‌amid heightened pressure from the U.S. ...

Feb 27 (Reuters) - Measles cases in South Carolina rose to 985 on Friday, state health data showed, including six ​additional infections since Tuesday. (Reporting by Sneha S K in Bengaluru; Editing by Vijay Kishore and ​Maju Samuel)

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 28 (Reuters) - The largest stars in the universe live the life of a rock star - they are born brilliant, live fast and die young. If that is the case, the one named WOH G64 might be considered the stellar equivalent of Ji...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - NASA is adding a spacecraft docking test to its Artemis moon program before landing its first astronauts on the moon in over half a century, overhauling the flagship U.S. moon effort amid mounting delays ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Astronomers have produced the largest and most detailed map ever made of the vast web of cold cosmic gas stretching across the heart of our galaxy, showing thread-like filaments resembling rivers of materia...

WASHINGTON, Feb 26 (Reuters) - When Homo sapiens trekked out of Africa, our species encountered Neanderthal populations already inhabiting the vast expanses of Europe, Asia and the Middle East. As the presence of Neanderthal DNA in most present-day peo...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON, Feb 25 (Reuters) - A U.S. Senate committee next week will consider extending the planned life of the International Space Station by two years to give companies more time to develop a replacement, one of a ​few changes to a ...

By Philip Blenkinsop BRUSSELS, March 2 (Reuters) - Scaling up production in Europe could cut the cost gap between EU-made batteries and those coming from China to around 30% from ​a current 90%, transport and environment campaign group T&E ‌said in a r...

SEOUL, March 2 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung met Singapore's Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Monday for ​a summit aimed at expanding cooperation ‌in fields such as artificial intelligence and nuclear energy, during a state visit to t...

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Prospects for artificial intelligence to disrupt business sectors should keep the U.S. stock market on edge in the coming week, as Wall Street looks for more insight into how the emerging technology will ...

LONDON, March 1 (Reuters) - Britain is seeking the views of parents and children on whether to ban access to social media for under-16s, as well as possible ​restrictions on gaming platforms and artificial intelligence chatbots. Governments worldwide ‌...

SYDNEY, Mar 2 (Reuters) - Australia's internet regulator said it may push search engines and app stores to block artificial intelligence services that fail to verify user ages after a Reuters review found more than half had not made public any steps to...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Reuters) - Supernatural thriller "Sinners" claimed the Actor Award for best movie cast on Sunday, a victory that sets up a face-off with "One Battle After Another" for the prestigious Best Picture prize at the upc...

By Elisa Anzolin MILAN, March 1 (Reuters) - Silvana Armani, the niece of the late designer, unveiled a collection of soft yet ​elegant looks for the Giorgio Armani ‌brand, in her first line conceived solely under her direction. Presented on the final d...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Michael B. Jordan took home entertainer of the year at the 57th NAACP Image Awards, winning for his dual role as twin brothers Smoke and Stack in the blues‑soaked vampire tale "Sinners". Hosted by co...

MANCHESTER, England, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Singer Olivia Dean was the big winner ​at Saturday's BRIT Awards, ‌Britain's pop music honours, taking four prizes. Below is a list of the winners following ‌the ​awards ceremony ⁠held in the ⁠northern English ci...

LONDON, Feb ​28 (Reuters) - ‌Singer Olivia ‌Dean's ​record "The ⁠Art Of ⁠Loving" won ​album ⁠of ⁠the ​year ​at the BRIT ‌Awards, ⁠Britain's pop music ⁠honours, ‌on ⁠Saturday. (Reporting ​by ‌Marie-Louise ​Gumuchian; Editing ⁠by Cynthia ​Osterman)...