WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- The man accused of stealing a Wisconsin Rapids ambulance and taking it on a 40-minute trip to Pittsville is competent for trial. Benjamin Feltz was in court on Monday, where both sides went over a competency evaluation, agreeing that the 37-year-old can aid in his defense. The Judge then ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- US Senator Tammy Baldwin was in Wausau on Monday to hear about the region's housing crunch. The discussion focused on several ways the housing shortage has impacted people, including businesses and individuals. She says she was glad to hear some companies are getting creative to solve the problem. ...

WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump is interested in calling on Arab countries to pay for the cost of the Iran war, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Monday, adding talks with Tehran to end the conflict ​are ...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- Police in Merrill are investigating a Friday night stabbing. Officers were called to a residential area to find the victim collapsed at a nearby establishment. They've determined that the unidentified individual was stabbed at a home, then walked to the bar for help. The victim is in "st...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - Major U.S. airports that suffered massive disruptions for weeks after 50,000 Transportation Security Administration security officers went unpaid since mid-February say operations are returning to no...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- The man accused of stealing a Wisconsin Rapids ambulance and taking it on a 40-minute trip to Pittsville is competent for trial. Benjamin Feltz was in court on Monday, where both sides went over a competency evaluation, agreeing that the 37-year-old can aid in his defense. The Judge then ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- US Senator Tammy Baldwin was in Wausau on Monday to hear about the region's housing crunch. The discussion focused on several ways the housing shortage has impacted people, including businesses and individuals. She says she was glad to hear some companies are getting creative to solve the problem. ...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- Police in Merrill are investigating a Friday night stabbing. Officers were called to a residential area to find the victim collapsed at a nearby establishment. They've determined that the unidentified individual was stabbed at a home, then walked to the bar for help. The victim is in "st...

MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- Residents of Marshfield should expect a busy road construction season, though City Administrator Steve Barg says most of the work will be done outside of the main roads. Barg says the city is in somewhat of a tight spot, with several roads nearing the end of their useful life at once. That's du...

RIB MOUNTAIN, WI (WSAU) - Organizers estimated about 2,000 people atteded a 'No Kings' rally along Rib Mountain Drive on Saturday. There were similar protests across the state and country. Organizers said they are opposed to the war with Iran, tariffs, and heavy-handed immigration enforcement. Organizers want their sup...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks, eliminated from playoff contention earlier this weekend, lost to the LA Clippers, 127-113, on Sunday. Bennedict Mathurin scored 28 points, John Collins 22 and Kawhi Leonard 20.. Gary Trent Jr. had a season-high 36 points for the Bucks, who had only 8 players available. The Bu...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers rallied from 5-runs down to sweep the White Sox 9-7 on Sunday. Milwaukee scored 6 runs in the 8th, capped off by a Christian Yelich three-run homer. It was the first pinch-hit home run of Yelich's career. The Brewers trailed 7-2 after 3 innings. Chicago's Munetaka Murakami homered to ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) The Brewers have opened their season with back-to-back wins over the White Sox. They beat Chicago 6-1 on Saturday night. Garrett Mitchell had two hits, 2 RBI, and 2 stolen bases in the win. Christian Yelich and Brice Turang had three hits each. Garrett Mitchell hit two singles, drove in two runs a...

WORCESTER, MA (WSAU) -- The Badgers hockey team is bound for the Frozen Four with a 4-3 overtime win over Michigan State. Senior Ben Dexheimer scored the game-winning goal 24 seconds into overtime. The Badgers rallied with back-to-back goals 34 seconds apart from Luke Osburn and Gavin Morrissey to tie the game 3-3. The...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks will miss the playoffs this season after a 127-95 loss to the San Antonio Spurs. Stephon Castle led San Antonio with 22 points, 10 assists and 10 rebeounds. The Spurs have won eight straight. The Bucks were lead by Gary Trent Jr. with 18. The Bucks had been a playoff team for ...

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...

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...

March 30 (Reuters) - The ranking members of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee questioned the Federal Communications Commission Chair ​Brendan Carr and criticized his ‌approval of Nexstar's merger with Tegna without a vote from the full commission, Blo...

March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ​told ‌aides he is willing to end the ‌military ​campaign ⁠against Iran ⁠even if the Strait of Hormuz remains ​largely closed and ⁠leave ⁠a complex ​operation to ​reopen it for ‌a later date, the Wall ⁠S...

By Nicole Jao NEW YORK, March 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. national average retail price of gasoline crossed $4 a gallon for the first time in more than three years on Monday, data from price tracking services GasBuddy showed, as the U.S.-Israeli war with I...

By Jonathan Stempel March 30 (Reuters) - A trade group representing the largest U.S. railroads sued New Jersey on Monday, seeking to block ​a new law that it said imposes "severe ‌restrictions" and unconstitutionally intrudes on federal government auth...

March 30 (Reuters) - A broker for U.S. Defense Secretary ​Pete Hegseth ‌attempted to make a big investment in major defense ‌companies ​in ⁠the weeks leading ⁠up to the U.S.-Israeli attack on Iran, the Financial ​Times reported on Monday, ⁠citing three...

March 31 (Reuters) - ​The ‌Israeli military said ‌on ​Tuesday ⁠that ⁠four of ​its ⁠personnel ⁠were killed ​and ​two wounded ‌during combat ⁠in southern Lebanon. (Reporting ⁠by ‌Enas ⁠Alashray ​and ‌Yomna ​Ehab; ⁠Editing by Himani ​Sarkar)...

By Alexander Cornwell, Trevor Hunnicutt and Yomna Ehab TEL AVIV/WASHINGTON, March 31 (Reuters) - Iran attacked and set ablaze a fully loaded crude oil tanker off Dubai on Monday, as President Donald Trump warned the U.S. would obliterate Iran's energy ...

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China is stepping up a bribery crackdown on regulators with action against a former No.2 ​official accused of accepting large amounts ‌of money and property while abusing his authority, prosecutors said on Tuesday. Investi...

BANGKOK, March 31 (Reuters) - Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has endorsed Prime ​Minister Anutin Charnvirakul's ‌new cabinet, according to a notice in the Royal Gazette on Tuesday. The approval ‌clears ​the way for ⁠the cabinet ⁠to be sworn in bef...

March 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump ​told ‌aides he is willing to end the ‌military ​campaign ⁠against Iran ⁠even if the Strait of Hormuz remains ​largely closed and ⁠leave ⁠a complex ​operation to ​reopen it for ‌a later date, the Wall ⁠S...

By Jihoon Lee SEOUL, March 31 (Reuters) - South Korea proposed a supplementary government budget of $17.3 billion on Tuesday to support consumers and companies hit by the war in the Middle East. A surge in oil prices sparked by the U.S.-Israeli war on ...

March 30 (Reuters) - The ranking members of the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee questioned the Federal Communications Commission Chair ​Brendan Carr and criticized his ‌approval of Nexstar's merger with Tegna without a vote from the full commission, Blo...

By Dan Catchpole SEATTLE, March 30 (Reuters) - Cathay Pacific Airways CEO Ronald Lam said on Monday that the airline's ​short-term priority was to maintain ‌flight capacity, adding that any cutbacks would be a "last resort" even as the conflict in the ...

By Rozanna Latiff and Danial Azhar KUALA LUMPUR, March 31 (Reuters) - Malaysia's economy is on track to grow faster in 2026 than initially projected, the central bank said on Tuesday, despite trade disruptions and higher fuel prices caused by the confl...

BEIJING, March 31 (Reuters) - China's factory activity grew at the fastest pace in a year in March, underpinned by improved demand, an official survey showed on Tuesday, a welcome relief for an economy grappling with global supply chain strains and ene...

By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - A coalition of health and environmental groups on Monday sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for repealing federal standards ​for coal-fired power plants that limited mercury and ‌other ha...

By Christy Santhosh March 30 (Reuters) - Drugmaker Merck said on Monday its oral drug met the main goal of meaningfully reducing bad cholesterol in a late-stage head-to-head trial ​with other therapies. Merck's non-statin cholesterol drug, enlicitide d...

MOSCOW, March 30 - Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday overhauling the production of animal vaccines following an outbreak of cattle disease that led to the ​deeply unpopular mass culling of livestock in a Siberian ‌region. The d...

BERLIN, March 30 (Reuters) - A special commission presented proposals on Monday to cap rapidly growing costs in Germany's statutory health insurance ​system as Chancellor Friedrich Merz's government began ‌a drive to agree a package of tax and welfare ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of whether reproduction is possible in extraterrestrial environments may no longer be merely hypo...

March 30 (Reuters) - SpaceX's Starlink said one of its satellites had an anomaly on-orbit on Sunday, leading to a loss of ​communications with the spacecraft at roughly ‌560 km (347.97 miles) above Earth, though the event does not pose a risk to key mi...

By Joey Roulette CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, March 30 (Reuters) - NASA is preparing to launch the first crew of astronauts toward the moon in over 53 years with its second Artemis mission, a critical test flight in humanity's broader lunar goals as the U....

By Akash Sriram March 30 (Reuters) - Space-tech firm Voyager Technologies has secured a mission management contract with robotics startup Icarus Robotics to ​demonstrate a free-flying robotic system on ‌the International Space Station (ISS), the compan...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, March 30 (Reuters) - As humankind moves toward the goal of establishing a long-term presence on the moon and Mars, the question of whether reproduction is possible in extraterrestrial environments may no longer be merely hypo...

By Akash Sriram March 30 (Reuters) - Orbital compute infrastructure startup Starcloud has raised $170 million at a $1.1 billion valuation, as companies including Elon Musk's SpaceX and Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin ​race to move power-hungry AI data centers ...

BANGKOK, March 31 (Reuters) - ​Microsoft ‌plans to invest $1 ‌billion ​in ⁠Thailand ⁠over the next ​two ⁠years ⁠in cloud ​services ​and AI, the ‌Thai ⁠government said in a ⁠statement. (Reporting ‌by ⁠Chayut ​Setboonsarng ‌and ​Panarat Thepgumpanat, ⁠E...

March 30 (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on Monday that requires firms seeking contracts with the ​state to provide safeguards against AI ‌misuse, including the generation of illegal content, harmful bias and viol...

JAKARTA, March 31 (Reuters) - Indonesia summoned officials from Meta and Google over non-compliance with social media restrictions for children under 16 that went into full effect ​last week, a minister said in a video statement ‌published on Tuesday. ...

BEIJING, March 30 (Reuters) - China has launched the World Data Organisation, a professional body ​to promote orderly data development ‌and utilisation as well as its governance globally, according to state television CCTV. Here are some details of ‌th...

SEOUL, March 31 (Reuters) - South Korea's Samsung SDI said it plans to ​lend 1.6 trillion won ($1.05 ‌billion) to StarPlus Energy, its battery joint venture with Stellantis. The company said in a ‌regulatory ​filing that ⁠the loan would ⁠be used to fun...

PARIS, March 30 (Reuters) - Canadian singer Celine Dion announced on Monday, her birthday, that she will return to the stage this fall with 10 concerts scheduled in Paris, ​spread out over September and October. The much‑anticipated announcement follow...

By Blake Brittain March 30 (Reuters) - Pop megastar Taylor Swift was sued by a Las Vegas performer on Monday who said Swift's latest hit album "The Life of a ​Showgirl" violates her trademark rights. Maren Wade said in the ‌complaint that marketing for...

LONDON, March 30 (Reuters) - British actor and comedian Russell Brand's trial on seven charges of rape and sexual assault relating to ​six women will take place in ‌October, a London judge said on Monday. Brand, once one of Britain's most high-profile ...

LONDON, March 27 (Reuters) - K-pop stars BTS topped the UK music charts on Friday, with their comeback album and its lead single both ​going straight to No. 1. BTS, who went on ‌hiatus in 2022 so that members could complete South Korea's mandatory mili...

By Jody Godoy and Dawn Chmielewski March 27 (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Justice has sent subpoenas in its investigation of Paramount Skydance's acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. The inquir...