WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Tax Increment Finance District #7 in Wausau will close in 2026 without a one-year extension to support affordable housing projects in the city. The City Council deadlocked 5-5 on the issue Tuesday, with Mayor Doug Diny casting the tiebreaking no vote. Council President Lisa Rasmussen was one of the...

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday in another divided vote, but signaled it will likely pause further reductions in borrowing costs as officials look for clearer signals about the direction of the job marke...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- At least two Wausau Alders have filed non-candidacy for next spring's election. Districts six and 11 will be under new representation in the next cycle, as longtime Alder Becky McElhaney and two-term Alder Chad Henke will not seek re-election. That's according to the city's candidate tracking matri...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau City Council heard an update from Community Infrastructure Partners on year two of a five-year plan to replace all private-side lead water pipes in the city. Sean Agid with CIP says the two-year project has seen more than 2,100 lines replaced, more than 1,500 of those coming in the last ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau School District will be looking for a new Assistant Superintendent for Operations. The School Board accepted Josh Viegut's resignation on Monday. He's accepted a job that will take him closer to family, according to a statement from Superintendent Cale Bushman released after the meeting....

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Tax Increment Finance District #7 in Wausau will close in 2026 without a one-year extension to support affordable housing projects in the city. The City Council deadlocked 5-5 on the issue Tuesday, with Mayor Doug Diny casting the tiebreaking no vote. Council President Lisa Rasmussen was one of the...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- At least two Wausau Alders have filed non-candidacy for next spring's election. Districts six and 11 will be under new representation in the next cycle, as longtime Alder Becky McElhaney and two-term Alder Chad Henke will not seek re-election. That's according to the city's candidate tracking matri...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau City Council heard an update from Community Infrastructure Partners on year two of a five-year plan to replace all private-side lead water pipes in the city. Sean Agid with CIP says the two-year project has seen more than 2,100 lines replaced, more than 1,500 of those coming in the last ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau School District will be looking for a new Assistant Superintendent for Operations. The School Board accepted Josh Viegut's resignation on Monday. He's accepted a job that will take him closer to family, according to a statement from Superintendent Cale Bushman released after the meeting....

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Peyton's Promise is hosting an event towards the fight against hunger. They will be holding the 7th Eat for the Hungry which starts tomorrow at both QDOBA locations, then followed by other locations: Culver's, Brews Brothers PUB, Vino latte, Mint cafe and catering, Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (Wausau...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is the scoreboard of the high school games that were played Tuesday night. Many were postponed by the weather. Boys Basketball Tigerton 79 Tomahawk 40 Witt/Birn 49 Rhinelander 33 Rapids Assumption 60 Tri-County 50 Girls Basketball Almond-Bancroft 79 Port Edwards 20 Marion-Tigerton ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin Badger football team will lose a couple of more players in the transfer portal. Running back Cade Yacamelli announced Tuesday he would be transferring. The redshirt junior has one more year of eligibility remaining. Yacamelli was a backup for most of his time in Madison and spent muc...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Northwoods League has released the 2026 baseball and softball schedules, with the Wausau Woodchucks opening the season with three road games in May. The Woodchucks will open the season with a two-game series in Madison on May 25th, then visit Green Bay for one on May 27th before hosting the Roc...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is Monday's scoreboard & today's schedule: Boys Basketball Northland Lutheran 52 Almond-Bancroft 33 Lakeland 49 Stratford 47 Stanley-Boyd 77 Edgar 57 Marion 51 Wild Rose 40 Weyauwega-Fremont 71 Pacelli 41 Gilman 68 Prentice 19 Girls Basketball Amherst 49 Port Edwards 3...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Here is the weekend scoreboard & today's schedule: Friday Boys basketball Wausau Newman 74 Abbotsford 47 Eau Claire North 72 Wausau West 46 Mosinee 72 Lakeland 58 La Crosse Central 50 Marshfield 46 Northland Pines 79 Merrill 56 Athens 51 Stratford 46 OT Rapids Assumption 68 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - A bipartisan group of key senators on Wednesday sharply ‍criticized provisions on military helicopter safety in an annual defense bill released this week, arguing it amounts to ‌a loophole that would ‌make U.S. skies less...

By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday in another divided vote, but signaled it will likely pause further reductions in borrowing costs as officials look for clearer signals about the...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee said on Wednesday that the head of the Federal Aviation Administration failed to divest his holdings in ‍Republic Airways in violation of his ethics ag...

COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Iceland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, the country's public broadcaster ‍RUV said on Wednesday, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union last week cleared Israel's participation. The decisi...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - A federal judge in California on Wednesday ordered an end to Donald Trump's deployment of National Guard troops to Los Angeles and directed that they be returned to the ‍control of the state's Democratic governor, finding that the Re...

WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump's administration has ‍seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, two U.S. officials ‌told Reuters on ‌Tuesday. The officials, who were speaking on the condition of anonymity, said the ​operati...

LA PAZ, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Bolivian ex-President Luis Arce, ‍who left office last month, has been arrested, a former member of ‌his cabinet ‌said on Wednesday. Arce may have been taken to a prison outside of ​La Paz, Maria Nela ‍Prada, who ​served as m...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Volodynyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he ‍had discussed plans for Ukraine's reconstruction with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott ‌Bessent and other ‌senior U.S. officials. Zelenskiy, accompanied in the discussions by Prime Min...

SOFIA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Thousands of Bulgarians rallied on Wednesday evening against the country's minority government and what they say is its failure to tackle endemic corruption in the European Union's poorest ‍member state. The protests in the ca...

By Laura Garcia TEGUCIGALPA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Election results in Honduras had not been updated for over 24 hours on Wednesday as protests broke out in the capital after calls for the vote to be annulled by the president, alleging fraud, stretching u...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - ‍Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were ‌among ‌the 13 companies that received a warning from ​a bipartisan ‍group ​of state ​attorneys general, ‍according to a letter from the state ‍leaders, who said t...

NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve cut interest rates on Wednesday in another divided vote, but signaled it will likely pause further reductions in borrowing costs as officials look for clearer signals about the direction of the job marke...

MEXICO CITY, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Mexico's economy is solid and resilient, central bank ‍chief Victoria Rodriguez said in the Latin American nation's financial stability report on Wednesday, even as domestic financial ‌risks increased. Mexico's banking s...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Reddit said on Wednesday it had started testing verified profiles, a new feature aimed at increasing transparency on ‍the social media platform. The company said that the introduction of a grey checkmark next to usernames is designed...

By Lauren Young NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Reserve is ending 2025 with a bang, delivering another rate cut for consumers amid an uncertain year for the economy. The Fed nudged interest rates lower by a quarter-percentage point on Wed...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - European Union officials have held multiple, undisclosed meetings with the tobacco industry, which uses political connections to try to influence policy in the bloc and beyond, a report by campaign groups published on ‍Wednesday foun...

By Nancy Lapid Dec 10 (Reuters) - A recently approved antibody drug from Regeneron Pharmaceuticals eradicates residual traces of multiple myeloma after initial treatments, potentially allowing patients to avoid grueling bone marrow transplants, prelimi...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Pfizer will cut over 200 jobs in Switzerland as part of its multi-year cost ‍reduction program, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The drugmaker will reduce its workforce in the country to r...

KAMPALA, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Uganda will get up to $1.7 billion of U.S. funding for its health sector over the ‍next five years, making it the latest African country to agree a pact with the Trump administration since it overhauled its approach to forei...

LONDON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Roche said on Wednesday its experimental oral drug giredestrant reduced the risk of breast cancer recurrence by 30% compared with standard endocrine therapy, ‍in what it said marked the first big advance in hormonal treatment...

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...

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - A Soyuz ‍MS-27 spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonauts Sergei ‌Ryzhikov ‌and Alexei Zubritsky and NASA astronaut Jonathan Kim ​has returned ‍to ​Earth, Russia's ​Roscosmos space ‍agency said on Tuesday. The spacecraft landed ‍a...

By Courtney Rozen WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - ‍Microsoft, Meta, Google and Apple were ‌among ‌the 13 companies that received a warning from ​a bipartisan ‍group ​of state ​attorneys general, ‍according to a letter from the state ‍leaders, who said t...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Reddit said on Wednesday it had started testing verified profiles, a new feature aimed at increasing transparency on ‍the social media platform. The company said that the introduction of a grey checkmark next to usernames is designed...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - YouTube said on Wednesday it will roll out new genre-based subscription plans for YouTube TV in the U.S. early next year, underscoring ‍the platform's growing clout in the American pay-TV market and its push to lock in sports fans. T...

By Federico Maccioni and Utkarsh Shetti ABU DHABI, Dec 10 (Reuters) - UAE's Wio Bank is looking to payments and wealth to drive the next leg of its growth, CEO Jayesh Patel ‍said on Wednesday, as the state-backed digital bank positions itself to capita...

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 ...

COPENHAGEN, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Iceland will not take part in the 2026 Eurovision Song Contest, the country's public broadcaster ‍RUV said on Wednesday, after organiser the European Broadcasting Union last week cleared Israel's participation. The decisi...

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance-owned CBS News on Wednesday ‍named Emmy award winning journalist Tony Dokoupil as the anchor of its flagship ‌nightly newscast, "CBS Evening ‌News", marking one of the first major moves by Bari Weiss as ​the news d...

By Sam Tobin LONDON, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Jimi Hendrix's classic 1960s albums are the focus of a London lawsuit over performers' rights asserted on behalf of his British bassist and drummer against Sony Music Entertainment, which warns that ‍a win for the...

LOS ANGELES, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Writer and director Rian Johnson is unveiling his third "Knives Out" mystery movie, "Wake Up, Dead Man," which streams on Netflix on December 12. The film centers around Father Jud ‍Duplenticy, played by Josh O'Connor, wh...

By Aditya Soni and Harshita Mary Varghese Dec 8 (Reuters) - Paramount Skydance's 11th-hour, hostile $108.4 billion bid for Warner Bros Discovery was rooted in what it considered a lack of responsiveness from Warner Bros to its ardent overtures late las...