WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department will hold an informational session Tuesday afternoon for groups interested in contributing to the department's temporary emergency night shelter. Police Chief Matthew Barnes says he's looking for help in all areas. "We're looking for those groups that have resource...

(Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he will attend Pope Francis' funeral in Rome. "Melania and I will be going to the funeral of Pope Francis, in Rome," Trump said on Truth Social. (Reporting by Rami Ayyub and Ismail Shakil; Edi...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - A new report indicates that the Milwaukee Brewers are expected to call up one of their top pitching prospects for their upcoming series against the San Francisco Giants. According to MLB insider Sean Wright, the Brewers are working on calling up closer Craig Yoho as the team looks to solidify th...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis died of a stroke and irreversible heart failure, Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli said in a death certificate released on Monday for the 88-year-old pontiff. The certificate, which was published by the Vatican, ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Merrill man has reached a plea deal for a battery of charges related to a downtown shooting incident and subsequent vehicle theft in 2024. Zach Tesky pleaded no contest to multiple counts, including recklessly endangering safety, third offense OWI, and multiple counts of forgery. A judge found hi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Police Department will hold an informational session Tuesday afternoon for groups interested in contributing to the department's temporary emergency night shelter. Police Chief Matthew Barnes says he's looking for help in all areas. "We're looking for those groups that have resource...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Merrill man has reached a plea deal for a battery of charges related to a downtown shooting incident and subsequent vehicle theft in 2024. Zach Tesky pleaded no contest to multiple counts, including recklessly endangering safety, third offense OWI, and multiple counts of forgery. A judge found hi...

TOWN OF VILAS, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- Two people have died after a two-vehicle crash in Langlade County last Friday. WAOW TV reports that crews were called to an area of County Road C Friday morning for an injury crash. The two drivers were taken from the scene by ambulance and died at a local hospital. The victims were ide...

RIB MOUNTAIN, WI (WSAU) -- The Village of Rib Mountain has grown. Village leaders recently stumbled upon information showing that an island in the Wisconsin River is actually under their control. "It started with a complaint about potential structures being built. [Someone said] 'Wait a minute, is that ours?' So w...

COLBY, WI (WSAU-WAOW) A family from Colby lost their home in a fire, just 2 weeks after welcoming their newborn child. April 2nd was a miracle day for Matt and Trinity Kunze. The day their son was born, he was born 6 weeks too early, and is currently staying in the NICU, in good condition. A few days later they retur...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks are upgrading point guard Damian Lillard's injury designation for game two of their playoff series against the Indiana Pacers as the team looks to even the series at a game apiece on Tuesday. According to NBA Insider Chris Haynes, Lillard is now considered questionable for Tue...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is the scoreboard and today's schedule: Friday Baseball Witt/Birn 6 Wausau West 4 Softball New Richmond 11 Wausau West 6 Wausau West 12 Superior 1 DC Everest 9 Hudson 0 Girls Soccer DC Everest 4 River Falls 0 Saturday Baseball Wausau West 4 Eau Claire North 0 Eau Claire North...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - A new report indicates that the Milwaukee Brewers are expected to call up one of their top pitching prospects for their upcoming series against the San Francisco Giants. According to MLB insider Sean Wright, the Brewers are working on calling up closer Craig Yoho as the team looks to solidify th...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - A new analysis by CBS Sports took the latest results from the last 12 mock drafts from CBS Sports, ESPN, and NFL.com to create the most likely draft selections for each team for this week's 2025 NFL draft. According to the analysis, the Packers former Boston College pass rusher Donovan Ezeiruaku ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Less than 24 hours after the Brewers managed just three hits in a loss to the Athletics, the bats woke up for 16 hits in a 14-1 thumping of the A's. Six players recorded multiple hits, led by Rhys Hoskins and Sal Frelick with three each. Hoskin's day included a solo home run and four RBI. Christ...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin's governor is pumped up about the NFL Draft happening in his state next week. With just seven days to go until the big event officially gets underway, Gov. Tony Evers delivered a radio address to celebrate the upcoming draft. He welcomed visitors who are coming to Titletown from all across the ...

JUNEAU, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A $2 million bond has been set for the man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam. Gary Day, 40, of Arkansas, made his initial appearance in a Dodge County courtroom Thursday afternoon. He faces two counts of child abduction and two counts of child enticement, to which he ple...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The man accused of abducting a pregnant teenager from Beaver Dam has been extradited to Wisconsin after his arrest in Nebraska earlier this month. Gary Day, 40, is charged in Dodge County with child abduction and child enticement. According to WMTV, Wisconsin officials took custody of Day Wednesday morni...

APPLETON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Governor Tony Evers says as many as 25% of child care facilities in the state are in danger of closing. That is if funding for the Child Care Counts program is cut. The secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Children and Families (DCF) says the future of childcare in the state remains unce...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- State Democrats announced legislation addressing political contributions made in the April 1st Spring election. In total, $98 million was spent leading up to the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, making it the most expensive judicial race in American history. On Thursday, State Rep. Lee Sno...

By Nichola Groom and Valerie Volcovici (Reuters) -U.S. environmental groups say they are hiring lawyers and preparing for a major legal showdown with President Donald Trump's administration over its rapid-fire and sweeping efforts to sidestep federal r...

(Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Monday kept up his verbal assault on Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell over the Fed's refusal for now to further cut interest rates, rattling financial markets growing ever more fearful that Trump may ultimat...

By Helen Coster NEW YORK (Reuters) -Over 100 university, college and scholarly society presidents published a joint statement on Tuesday opposing the Trump administration's treatment of higher education institutions, coming together to speak out after ...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - More than two dozen people whom the U.S. government says are current or past members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua have been charged with murder, sex trafficking and other crimes under a federal law created to com...

By Sarah N. Lynch and Jody Godoy WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has backed away from a plan to break up its Washington-based tax division and send prosecutors to offices throughout the country, according to an internal email ...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Thailand's negotiations with Washington on steep trade tariffs were postponed because the United States has asked Bangkok to review important issues, Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday. A new meeting date was being...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian forces have retaken a monastery in Russia's Kursk region where Ukrainian troops had been holed up, state media reported on Tuesday. TASS news agency quoted a security source as saying Russian forces had captured the St. N...

DILI (Reuters) - Catholic majority East Timor on Tuesday began seven days of national mourning to mark the death of Pope Francis, with people gathering for prayers and flags flying at half-mast across the Asian nation. The pontiff, who died on Mond...

By Jay Ereno and Mikhail Flores MANILA (Reuters) - Hundreds of Filipinos gathered at a solemn Mass held for Pope Francis on Tuesday, following his passing that has stirred deep sorrow among Catholics around the world, many of whom saw him as a humb...

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Tuesday Thai-U.S. trade negotiations have been postponed from April 23. Paetongarn gave no reason for the postponement. (Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat and Kitiphong Thaichareon;...

By Leika Kihara and Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO (Reuters) -When Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato meets his U.S. counterpart Scott Bessent in Washington this week, the yen is shaping up to be a major topic of discussion, though sources say Tokyo will ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Sweden's Biotage said on Tuesday that KKR had made a cash offer for the Swedish biotechnology firm, valuing it at around 11.6 billion Swedish crowns ($1.22 billion). The offer price of 145 crowns per share represents a premium of ...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -German carmaker Mercedes-Benz unveiled on Tuesday a new all-electric luxury limousine segment it called "Vision V" which it said marked the expansion of the top end of its vans portfolio. CEO Ola Källenius told an event in Shanghai ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) -Taiwan's cabinet said on Tuesday it will ask the opposition controlled legislature to release more than $4 billion in funds frozen as part of a stand-off over this year's budget, which the government says could seriously affect their ...

(Reuters) - A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Wayne Cole. There is an old saying that when the U.S. sneezes, the world catches a cold. But if the malady is a self-inflicted wound, is contagion inevitable? There might be a ...

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) -Sweden's Biotage said on Tuesday that KKR had made a cash offer for the Swedish biotechnology firm, valuing it at around 11.6 billion Swedish crowns ($1.22 billion). The offer price of 145 crowns per share represents a premium of ...

(Reuters) -British sales and marketing services provider DCC on Tuesday said it will sell its healthcare division to HealthCo Investment Ltd for a total enterprise value of 1.05 billion pounds ($1.41 billion). ($1 = 0.7456 pounds) (Reporting by Raec...

By John Revill ZURICH (Reuters) - Roche on Tuesday said it will invest $50 billion in the United States over the next five years, in one of the biggest inward investment moves by companies dealing with President Donald Trump's tariffs policy. The S...

By Leah Douglas WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Food and Drug Administration is suspending a quality control program for testing of fluid milk and other dairy products due to reduced capacity in its food safety and nutrition division, according to an interna...

(Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group spent nearly $1.7 million on security for its top executives in 2024, the healthcare conglomerate disclosed on Monday, months after the fatal shooting of senior executive Brian Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in Decembe...

(Reuters) -A Soyuz MS-26 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has returned to Earth, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported on Sunday. "Its deorbiting and descent to Earth were normal...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a memorable image from the 1977 film "Star Wars," the young hero Luke Skywalker gazes at two suns setting above the horizon on his desert planet Tatooine. Astronomers since then indeed have discovered worlds, cal...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A mineral called siderite found abundantly in rock drilled by a NASA rover on the surface of Mars is providing fresh evidence of the planet's warmer and wetter ancient past when it boasted substantial bodies of wate...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - Harvard scientist Dr. Donald Ingber, who works where medicine and engineering meet, saw federal funding for some of his projects frozen this week as his university clashed with the administration of U.S. President Donald ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In a potential landmark discovery, scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have obtained what they call the strongest signs yet of possible life beyond our solar system, detecting in an alien planet's atmosp...

ATHENS -Greece-based financial technology provider Qualco plans to launch an initial public offering to list its shares on the Athens Stock Exchange, it said on Tuesday. Qualco, which offers software for the credit industry and has operations in more t...

(Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump's administration intends to press India to give online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart full access to its $125 billion ecommerce market, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday, citing industry executives, lo...

TOKYO (Reuters) -British self-driving technology startup Wayve said on Tuesday it has established a new testing and development centre in Japan, its first expansion into an Asian market. Wayve said the new centre will allow it to speed up the developme...

(Reuters) -Technology-focused buyout firm Thoma Bravo is in advanced talks to buy Boeing's Jeppesen navigation unit, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. (Reporting by Nilutpal Timsina in Bengaluru; Editing by She...

(Reuters) -Amazon.com has paused some data center lease talks for its cloud division, particularly in overseas markets, suggesting a short-term slowdown in leasing for large-scale facilities, Wells Fargo analysts said on Monday. The move by the largest...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Years of filming, often in extreme conditions, has provided new insights into the extraordinary challenges endured by penguins for a documentary series to be premiered on Monday, the eve of Earth Day. "Secrets of t...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Sean 'Diddy' Combs appeared in Manhattan federal court on Friday for a hearing over the hip-hop mogul's bid to delay his upcoming sex trafficking trial by two months. Combs, 55, has pleaded not guilty to five criminal c...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -Oscar-nominated actor Ryan Gosling will star in a new "Star Wars" film that will reach movie theaters in May 2027, Walt Disney's Lucasfilm announced on Thursday. "Star Wars: Starfighter" will take place five year...

By Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For actor Diego Luna, Season Two of the Disney Plus series "Andor," based on the "Star Wars" franchise, correlates with real-life sociopolitical issues that go beyond the show. "Oh my God,...

By Jonathan Stempel NEW YORK (Reuters) -Drake expanded his defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group, saying more people were duped into believing he was a pedophile after rapper Kendrick Lamar performed "Not Like Us" during the Super Bowl halft...