GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The complete Green Bay Packers' 2026 NFL schedule is finally here, and the team will face several NFC rivals, the defending AFC champion Patriots, play in at least seven primetime games, and even host Josh Allen and the always-tough Buffalo Bills. Here is the Packers full 2026 schedule: Week 1: ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers used timely hitting to score a 7-1 win over San Diego on Thursday. Andrew Vaughn, Luis Rengifo, and Garrett Mitchell each recorded two hits. Mitchell led the way with two doubles, while Rengifo recorded 3 RBI. Vaughn's day also included an RBI walk in the first inning. Bric...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau woman is accused of her 7th OWI after a complaint about her behavior outside the downtown Kwik Trip in late April. Emily McColley is accused of driving while under the influence of drugs after officers caught up to her outside a vehicle that was double-parked at the Grand Avenue store. Acc...

WASHINGTON, DC - During his toast at the state banquet in Beijing on Thursday, President Donald Trump stated that a date has been scheduled for Chinese President Xi Jinping to visit the White House. According to President Trump, he looks forward to meeting with Xi again this fall, saying, "It is my honor to extend...

GREEN BAY, WI - The Green Bay Packers are reportedly expecting to start the season without their top pass rusher. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Micah Parsons is "a candidate to be placed on the Physically Unable to Perform List" to start the season, as he continues to recover from his torn ACL. Parsons p...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau woman is accused of her 7th OWI after a complaint about her behavior outside the downtown Kwik Trip in late April. Emily McColley is accused of driving while under the influence of drugs after officers caught up to her outside a vehicle that was double-parked at the Grand Avenue store. Acc...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- One day after the ceremonial start of a $17.5 million facelift, the Grand Theater has been awarded a $1.1 million grant from the state. The money comes from the Department of Administration's Non-State Grants for Local Projects, according to a news release. "We are deeply grateful to the State...

MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- One person suffered minor injuries after an apartment fire in Marshfield. Crews responded to the building on North Weber Ave at about 7:30 PM to find smoke coming from a second-floor window. All residents managed to get out of the building before crews arrived. One person suffered minor smoke i...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers has signed an executive order requiring flags to be flown at half-staff across the state on Thursday in honor of Hmong-Lao Veterans Day. According to a press release from the governor's office, Evers praised the Hmong-Lao community for their military service during the...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Instead of a ceremonial groundbreaking, it was a lifting of the seats and swinging of the hammer to mark the start of a $17 million renovation to the century-old Grand Theater in Wausau. "This is an exciting day because it is a marker in this chapter," said Executive Director Sean Wright....

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The complete Green Bay Packers' 2026 NFL schedule is finally here, and the team will face several NFC rivals, the defending AFC champion Patriots, play in at least seven primetime games, and even host Josh Allen and the always-tough Buffalo Bills. Here is the Packers full 2026 schedule: Week 1: ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Milwaukee Brewers used timely hitting to score a 7-1 win over San Diego on Thursday. Andrew Vaughn, Luis Rengifo, and Garrett Mitchell each recorded two hits. Mitchell led the way with two doubles, while Rengifo recorded 3 RBI. Vaughn's day also included an RBI walk in the first inning. Bric...

GREEN BAY, WI - The Green Bay Packers are reportedly expecting to start the season without their top pass rusher. According to ESPN's Adam Schefter, Micah Parsons is "a candidate to be placed on the Physically Unable to Perform List" to start the season, as he continues to recover from his torn ACL. Parsons p...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Major League Baseball has a new top overall prospect. According to MLB Pipeline, the Brewers' 19-year-old phenom Jesus Made has taken over the top spot from Pirates superstar Konnor Griffin after he recorded his 130th major league at-bat on Wednesday night, making him no longer a prospect. Made i...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - Gavin Sheets hit a 3-run home run with two outs in the 9th, as the Padres rallied to beat the Brewers 3-2. Milwaukee squandered a strong start from Jacob Misiorowski, who pictched 7 scoreless innings while striking out 10. 40 of his pitches were clocked at over 100mph. At one point he retired 14 ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) A bill that would have spent-down about two-thirds of the state surplus on a combination of tax rebates and school funding failed in the state senate, 15-18 last night. The compromise proposal between Governor Tony Evers and GOP leaders in the legislature is dead. Several candidates for governor wer...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A deal has been reached to disburse Wisconsin's budget surplus, including a plan to boost Special Education payments to school districts and provide direct payments to those who filed a Wisconsin tax return in 2024. According to a news release from the Governor, the deal includes education funding...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Governor Tony Evers has signed Assembly Bill 601, opening the door for sports betting apps to operate in Wisconsin. The bill allows users to place wagers on games through mobile apps, as long as the bet runs through servers operated on tribal land. Evers says this brings an opportunity for increas...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Governor Tony Evers took action on a bill Friday that addresses the crime of grooming a child for sexual activity. Evers signed Assembly Bill 677, now known as the 2025 Wisconsin Act 88, into law. The bill, introduced in November 2025, received bipartisan support. The new law establishes the ...

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...

By Charlie Devereux, Padraic Halpin and Charlotte Van Campenhout MADRID/DUBLIN/AMSTERDAM, May 15 (Reuters) - Broadcasters boycotting Saturday's Eurovision final over Israel's participation will instead offer their viewers a rerun of the sitcom "Father ...

By Nate Raymond May 14 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday blocked Texas authorities from enforcing key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of ​having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. Austi...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - Muslim American groups said congressional hearings that Republican lawmakers cast as aimed at making the U.S. "sharia-free" are being weaponized against Muslim minorities in the United States by stoking ...

WASHINGTON, May 14 (Reuters) - The U.S. Securities ​and ‌Exchange Commission on Thursday settled a civil ‌lawsuit ​against ⁠Indian billionaire Gautam ⁠Adani, subject to court approval, court ​records showed. The Justice ⁠Department is ⁠close to ​droppi...

By Michael S. Derby NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - Federal Reserve Bank of New York President John Williams said on Thursday he does not see a need right ​now for the central bank to weigh any change ‌in interest rate policy amid the uncertainty created ...

By Clement Bonnerot DAKAR, May 15 (Reuters) - Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda are heading for a diplomatic battle over the leadership of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), with both fielding rival candidates as fighting gr...

NEW DELHI, May 15 (Reuters) - India issued a chair's ​statement on Friday ‌at the conclusion of the annual BRICS foreign ministers' meeting ‌in ​New Delhi ⁠instead of a ⁠joint statement and said there were differing views among ​some members on the sit...

MOSCOW, May 15 (Reuters) - Russia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of ​war each on ‌Friday, part of an agreement linked to a ceasefire earlier this month brokered ‌by ​U.S. President ⁠Donald Trump. The Russian ⁠Defence Ministry said its servicemen wer...

By Yurii Kovalenko and Olena Harmash KYIV, May 15 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on Friday for Moscow to be punished after laying red roses at the rubble of a Kyiv apartment building where a Russian missile strike ​killed 24 people, i...

By Anita Komuves BUDAPEST, May 15 (Reuters) - The media empire built by former Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government, a key pillar of the nationalist leader's 16 years in power, is swiftly unravelling following an election last month that ...

By Amy-Jo Crowley and Richa Naidu LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - Blackstone and CD&R are among private equity firms in the early stages of exploring bids for Magnum Ice Cream Company, two sources ​familiar with the matter told Reuters, less than six months...

By Lewis Krauskopf NEW YORK, May 15 (Reuters) - Two themes critical to the U.S. stock market -- the artificial intelligence boom and inflation-pressured consumer spending -- will come under the microscope next week with earnings reports from semiconduc...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, May 15 (Reuters) - Incoming Federal Reserve chief Kevin Warsh's plans to shrink the U.S. central bank's "footprint" in financial markets could be constrained by the rising federal debt and potentially lost luster of U.S....

By Shashwat Chauhan May 15 (Reuters) - SpaceX is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its upcoming initial public offering, in ​what could be the biggest-ever stock ‌market debut by a U.S. company on Wall Street. The listing of Elon Musk-...

May 15 (Reuters) - Futures tracking the Nasdaq and the S&P 500 tumbled more than 1% on Friday, with an AI-driven rally in U.S. stocks poised to stall, as Treasury yields jumped on concerns about higher inflation driven by the ​Middle East conflict. The...

By Emma Rumney LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - The World Health Organization on Friday urged governments to do more to control the sale of nicotine pouches, warning that the highly addictive products were being "aggressively ​marketed" in ways that particul...

SINGAPORE, May 15 (Reuters) - IHH Healthcare has signed a S$250 million ($196 ​million) sustainability-linked loan ‌with Singapore's biggest bank DBS that ties part of the deal to better ‌use ​of antibiotics ⁠at its four ⁠Singapore hospitals, the compa...

May 15 (Reuters) - Africa's top public health agency said on Friday that there was a confirmed Ebola ​outbreak in Democratic Republic of ‌Congo's Ituri province. The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention said in a statement that it was conv...

By Jennifer Rigby LONDON, May 15 (Reuters) - A rodent-borne virus with a scary name. A mid-ocean cruise ship in quarantine. Several people dead and more falling sick. It is no wonder that an outbreak of the Andes strain of hantavirus on a luxury liner ...

SYDNEY, May 15 (Reuters) - Australian citizens who were on a Dutch-flagged luxury cruise ship hit by a deadly hantavirus outbreak ​returned home on Friday and will ‌isolate for at least three weeks at a quarantine facility. Four Australian citizens, a ...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES, May 14 (Reuters) - NASA's Psyche probe was headed for a close encounter with Mars on Friday and a planned gravity boost to set the spacecraft on its final course to the solar system's largest known metallic asteroid, though...

By Sayed Sheasha LUXOR, Egypt, May 14 (Reuters) - Egyptian authorities on Thursday exhibited a plaster blocking wall of King Tutankhamun's tomb in Luxor and unveiled two restored ancient tombs on the West Bank of the city that ​date back to the New Kin...

By Will Dunham May 14 (Reuters) - Along a meandering river in a warm and arid region that is now Thailand roughly 113 million years ago, a plant-eating behemoth almost 90 feet (27 meters) long browsed on the treetops without much fear of predators due ...

By Will Dunham May 13 (Reuters) - About 59,000 years ago, a Neanderthal suffered from an awful toothache caused by a deep cavity in one of the molars on the lower jaw. That tooth has now been discovered inside a Siberian cave, bearing signs of dental s...

May 12 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google on Tuesday said it has been in discussions with Elon Musk's SpaceX and others regarding future launches for ​its Project Suncatcher, an orbital data center ‌project. Google is pushing the space-based data center ide...

By Shashwat Chauhan May 15 (Reuters) - SpaceX is targeting a valuation of roughly $1.75 trillion in its upcoming initial public offering, in ​what could be the biggest-ever stock ‌market debut by a U.S. company on Wall Street. The listing of Elon Musk-...

May 15 (Reuters) - Bill Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square will disclose a new position in ​Microsoft later in the day, ‌the billionaire investor said on Friday, arguing that the tech giant sits at a "highly compelling valuation". Ackman's new closed-...

TAIPEI, May 15 (Reuters) - TSMC, the world's largest contract chipmaker, said on Friday it plans ​to sell up to 152 ‌million shares in Vanguard International Semiconductor via a block trade to financial institutional investors, cutting its stake in ‌th...

TOKYO, May 15 (Reuters) - Japanese memory chipmaker Kioxia said on Friday it expected operating profit for ​the April-June quarter to ‌reach 1.3 trillion yen ($8.20 billion) as the artificial intelligence boom boosts chip demand. • The maker of NAND fl...

By Heekyong Yang and Hyunjoo Jin SEOUL, May 15 (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics' South Korean labour union said on Friday it remained committed to a planned strike starting next week, even after the company proposed resuming pay talks without conditions...

By Francesca Halliwell CANNES, France, May 14 (Reuters) - Two-time Oscar-winning Iranian director Asghar Farhadi allowed himself to go outside his cinema red lines and play with structure in his Paris-set drama "Parallel Tales," he ​told Reuters ahead ...

May 14 (Reuters) - Madonna and Shakira will line up with K-pop supergroup BTS to headline the first-ever World ​Cup final halftime show at ‌the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, FIFA said on Thursday. Coldplay singer Chris Martin will curate the extravaga...

LONDON, May 14 (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV said on Thursday it remained in "active discussions" to sell its media and entertainment ​division to Comcast's Sky, as it forecast ‌a boost in advertising revenue from the World Cup in June and July. ...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, May 13 (Reuters) - French fashion house Christian Dior's new creative director, Jonathan Anderson, unveiled his first Cruise collection on Wednesday night in Los Angeles, transforming the Los Angeles County Museum of A...

CANNES, France, May 13 (Reuters) - The Cannes Film Festival revved up the glamour on Wednesday night with a buzzy red carpet for the midnight screening of the original "The ​Fast and the Furious" with star Vin Diesel. Diesel, wearing ‌a black jacket wi...