MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- The Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department battled with a fire in below-freezing temperatures. A total of eight personnel found a single-story wood-framed home with a large amount of thick smoke coming from the attic and attached garage. The crew had limited visibility because of the smoke and h...

HARSHAW, WI (WSAU) -- Rondele Ranch Christmas Wonderland will not open on Saturday due to extreme cold. Those who purchased tickets for Saturday will be automatically refunded, according to a statement from management. Extreme cold will also delay the opening of the Sylvan Hill tubbing area. Wausau and Marathon County ...

ISTANBUL, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, fresh from a meeting with Russia's Vladimir Putin, said he hopes to ‍discuss a Ukraine-Russia peace plan with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding that "peace is not far away". Erdogan met P...

By Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. government carried out its seizure of the M/T Skipper off the coast of Venezuela on Wednesday just as ‍a judge-signed warrant was set to expire, according to the document which was unsealed on Frid...

WAUTOMA, Wis. (WSAU - WAOW) - According to WAOW TV, Waushara County District Attorney Matthew Leusink has announced there will be no criminal charges for law enforcement involved in the death of Timothy Lehman on October 16, 2025. The incident happened during a domestic violence call near State Road 73 and County Road ...

MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- The Marshfield Fire and Rescue Department battled with a fire in below-freezing temperatures. A total of eight personnel found a single-story wood-framed home with a large amount of thick smoke coming from the attic and attached garage. The crew had limited visibility because of the smoke and h...

HARSHAW, WI (WSAU) -- Rondele Ranch Christmas Wonderland will not open on Saturday due to extreme cold. Those who purchased tickets for Saturday will be automatically refunded, according to a statement from management. Extreme cold will also delay the opening of the Sylvan Hill tubbing area. Wausau and Marathon County ...

WAUTOMA, Wis. (WSAU - WAOW) - According to WAOW TV, Waushara County District Attorney Matthew Leusink has announced there will be no criminal charges for law enforcement involved in the death of Timothy Lehman on October 16, 2025. The incident happened during a domestic violence call near State Road 73 and County Road ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Marathon County will partially open up the Mountain Bay Trail for snowmobiles beginning on Saturday , December 13th at 8am, but conditions are listed as early season, so be careful when out. The trail will be open from CTH J, going east into Shawano County with access to The Store gas station being...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- When you tune into Green Bay Packers coverage on WSAU, you are hearing some of the best radio play-by-play in the NFL. That's according to the sports media blog Awful Announcing, whose annual "Local Radio Announcer Rankings" have placed Wayne Larrivee and Larry McCarren as the #1 team ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Thursday's scoreboard and today's schedule: Boys Basketball Pittsville 48 Almond-Bancroft 30 Amherst 63 Menominee Nation 53 Augusta 69 Gilman 38 Tigerton 85 Port Edwards 38 Marion 50 White Lake 41 Iola-Scandanavia 54 Weyauwega-Fremont 52 Pacelli 69 Wild Rose 54 Three La...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Boston Celtics came into Fiserv Forum Thursday night as one of the hottest teams in the NBA. They had won five straight and 10 of their last 12. But on this night, despite falling behind 21-8 in the early going, it was the Milwaukee Bucks who prevailed with a 116-101 win. The Bucks shot over...

Green Bay Packers running back Josh Jacobs did not participate in his second straight practice this week due to a knee injury, raising questions ‍about his availability for Sunday's game against the host Denver Broncos. Jacobs told reporters on Thursd...

LINCOLN, NEB (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin mens basketball team got hammered by 23rd ranked Nebraska 90-60 on Wednesday night in Lincoln. The Cornhuskers built a 16 point halftime lead and shot 54% in the second half to pull away. Nick Boyd led the Badgers with 20 points and Nolan Winter had 10. Wisconsin, now 7-3, 1-1 in Bi...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The NFL and its media partners have finalized the Week 17 schedule, including the interconference showdown between the Packers and Baltimore Ravens. The game, which had been held for possible flex scheduling, will be played on Saturday, December 27th at Lambeau Field with kickoff at 7 PM. TV cov...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Slenderman stabber, Morgan Geyser, is back in Wisconsin. Last weekend she cut off her monitoring device and fled from a group home in Madison. She and a 42-year-old took a bus to Illinois, and were caught at a truck stop near Chicago. Geyser, now 23, is being held in the Waukesha County ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court will appoint two three-judge panels to determine if the state's congressional districts must be redrawn. The pending lawsuits claim the current maps are unconstitutional, and unfairly favor Republicans. 6 of Wisconsin's 8 seats in the House of Representatives are held by...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- One of the women convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Waukesha, Morgan Geyser, has been found in Illinois after absconding from a Madison area group home. Madison police say Geyser cut off her GPS monitoring bracelet on Saturday night. Posen, Illinois Police confirmed to Madison's 12 News...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- As cold and flu season approaches, Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order aiming to ensure access to vaccines in Wisconsin. The order directs the state Department of Health Services to monitor medical evidence and guidance on the COVID-19 vaccines. If needed, the order instructs DHS to issue stand...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- Another prominent Wisconsin Democrat joins the race for governor. Madison State Senator Kelda Roys announced her candidacy via a video on social media on Monday morning. Roys was first elected to the state assembly in 2009 and has served in the state senate since 2021. She was among a crowded ...

RABAT, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by ‍torrential rains killed at least seven people and injured 20 ‌others on ‌Sunday in Morocco's Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) ​south of Rabat, ‍Moroccan authorities ​said...

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Providence police said early on Sunday they have ‍taken a person of interest into custody in connection with the shooting at Brown University, ‌NBC 10 WJAR ‌reported. The police did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for co...

By Tim McLaughlin Dec. 14 (Reuters) - BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett's sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the cleanest locomotive fleet in North Americ...

By Hussein Waaile and Sarah Marsh NEW YORK/BERLIN, Dec 14 (Reuters) - A senior German far-right lawmaker called for an alliance between U.S. and German nationalist parties at a MAGA gala on Saturday where he was being honored, buoyed by a new U.S. secu...

WASHINGTON, Dec 14 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's aggressive policy agenda is doing more than reshaping the economy and immigration enforcement - it's also giving a handful of Democratic governors a national stage to position themselves as potent...

By Manuela Andreoni and Janaina Quinet SAO PAULO, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Thousands of Brazilians on Sunday protested in major cities against a legislative effort to lower the jail sentence of former President Jair Bolsonaro and his ‍supporters for plotting...

Dec 14 (Reuters) - Two prominent Belarusian opposition leaders released by Belarusian authorities in a deal brokered by the U.S. said on Sunday they had no regrets over the actions that led to their incarceration. Maria Kalesnikava, 43, ‍was one of the...

SYDNEY, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Australian police said ‍on Monday that the alleged offenders behind the attack ‌at Sydney's ‌Bondi beach were a father and son duo, and that ​they were not looking ‍for ​a third ​offender. Police said during ‍a media briefing...

ABUJA, Dec 14 - West African bloc ECOWAS rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau's military rulers and demanded a swift ‍return to constitutional order, warning of targeted sanctions against those obstructing the process. A...

RABAT, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Flash floods triggered by ‍torrential rains killed at least seven people and injured 20 ‌others on ‌Sunday in Morocco's Atlantic coastal province of Safi, 330 kilometres (205 miles) ​south of Rabat, ‍Moroccan authorities ​said...

By Tim McLaughlin Dec. 14 (Reuters) - BNSF Railway, one of the crown jewels of Warren Buffett's sprawling Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, calls itself an environmental leader in the U.S. rail industry with the cleanest locomotive fleet in North Americ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - U.S. soft drinks ‍company Coca-Cola's proposed sale of Costa Coffee is ‌at ‌risk of collapse and the company is holding last-ditch ​talks with private ‍equity ​firm TDR ​Capital this ‍weekend in an attempt to salvage it, the ‍Financi...

By Jan Wolfe WASHINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court's conservative justices appear ready to endorse President Donald Trump's power to fire a regulatory agency official despite job protections given by Congress. But they have signaled rel...

By Julia Harte Dec 13 - When Ron Dailey goes out to eat, he is shocked by prices on the menu. "Breakfast is $20 no matter how you slice it," said Dailey, 63, who voted for President Donald Trump in November 2024. Dailey, a Denver-area resident who work...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies' latest ‍flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China's top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 ‌nanometres, which is still ‌behind TSMC and Samsung, ...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Swedish ‍Orphan Biovitrum said on Saturday it ‌had entered ‌into an agreement to acquire biotechnology company ​Arthrosi Therapeutics ‍for $1.5 ​billion. Sobi will ​pay $950 million ‍upfront in cash to acquire Arthrosi, ‍an...

By Mathieu Rosemain and Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - France will vaccinate 1 million head of cattle in the coming weeks against lumpy skin disease, Agriculture Minister Annie Genevard said ‍on Saturday, as protesting farmers blocked ...

By Diana Novak Jones Dec 12 (Reuters) - A California jury on Friday awarded $40 million to two women who said Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was to blame for their ovarian cancer. The jury in Los Angeles Superior Court awarded $18 million to Monica Ke...

By Ahmed Aboulenein and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Republican leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday presented a healthcare proposal that leaves unresolved steep health insurance premium ‍increases set to impact millio...

By Nate Raymond BOSTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court ruled on Friday that a provision of U.S. President Donald Trump's signature tax and domestic policy bill that deprives Planned Parenthood and local affiliates that perform abortions of...

By Joey Roulette, Ross Kerber and Echo Wang WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Investors eyeing SpaceX's potential blockbuster IPO may need to brace themselves as CEO Elon Musk balances his risky quest to reach Mars with growing the revenue-rich Starlink s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Jeff Bezos' aerospace firm Blue Origin has been working for over a year on the necessary technology for artificial intelligence data centers ‍in space, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the ...

By Will Dunham Dec 10 (Reuters) - Scientists have discovered the oldest-known evidence of fire-making by prehistoric humans in the English county of Suffolk - a hearth apparently made by Neanderthals about 415,000 years ago - revealing that this milest...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Chinese astronauts have installed protection against "space junk" aboard the permanently inhabited station Tiangong, according to China's manned spaceflight authorities, a ‍month after a docked vessel was...

By Will Dunham Dec 9 (Reuters) - Scientists excavating the ruins of Pompeii have discovered a construction site left frozen in time by the eruption of Italy's Mount Vesuvius volcano in 79 AD, clarifying the ingredients and methods behind the durable se...

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, Dec 14 (Reuters) - Several dozen people protested on Sunday in the Siberian city of Tomsk against Russia's ban on U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, a rare show of public dissent as ‍popular irritation over the ban gai...

Dec 13 (Reuters) - ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy Armis, a cybersecurity startup that had ‍been eyeing an initial public offering next year, in a deal that may be valued at as much as $7 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing ‌peo...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - The Kirin 9030, the chip that powers Huawei Technologies' latest ‍flagship Mate 80 series handset, has been manufactured by China's top foundry SMIC with an improved version of 7 ‌nanometres, which is still ‌behind TSMC and Samsung, ...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 12 (Reuters) - U.S. lawmaker John Moolenaar, the chair of the U.S. House of Representatives' bipartisan select committee focused on China, on ‍Friday asked Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick to explain the details of...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Bitcoin hoarding giant Strategy clung to its place in the Nasdaq 100 on Friday, continuing its year-long ‍stint in the benchmark at a time where analysts have raised questions over its business model. Some market watchers have sugges...

By Mike Scarcella WASHINGTON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California ruled on Friday that Live Nation and its subsidiary Ticketmaster must face a class action on ‍behalf of millions of Americans for allegedly overcharging them for events at m...

Dec 12 (Reuters) - Walt Disney Animation Studios' "Zootopia 2" is on track to surpass $1 billion at the global box ‍office, the company said on Friday, as the sequel continues its strong run in international markets. The film, which revisits the bustli...

By Jody Godoy NEW YORK, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Netflix says it must acquire Warner Bros Discovery to compete with YouTube, but antitrust experts doubt regulators will buy that argument. The streaming giant's $72 billion takeover of Warner Bros Discovery's ...

BRUSSELS, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Universal Music said on Friday it has submitted a remedy to ‍address competition concerns from the European Commission over the group's $775-million takeover of Downtown Music. The Commission last month objected to the deal...

Dec 11 (Reuters) - Walt Disney is investing $1 billion in OpenAI and will let the startup use characters from Star Wars, Pixar ‍and Marvel franchises in its Sora AI video and image generator, a crucial deal that could reshape how Hollywood makes conten...