MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers widened their lead in the NL Central with a 6-0 win over the Cardinals. Kyle Harrison worked six innings and allowed just four hits. He improves to 6-1 this season and lowered his ERA to 1.57. Garrett Mitchell broke the game open with a 3-run home run in a 5-run 5th inning that put th...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point City Council has voted to award a $14.8 million contract to Miron Construction for a new City Hall at 1039 Ellis Street. Mayor Mike Wiza said he and the rest of the city staff were pleasantly surprised when nearly all the bids came in under the $15 million budget. "We ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Packers star running back Josh Jacobs was arrested over the holiday weekend and faces several domestic-related charges, according to the Hobert/Lawrence police department. According to a press release from the department, Jacobs was booked into the Brown County Jail on Saturday night, charges tha...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau has been named one of the top 100 communities in America for retirees and renewed its Tree City USA designation for the 45th consecutive year, according to a pair of press releases from the Mayor's office. The retirement ranking comes from Investopedia, which ranked cities based on cost of l...

By Rory Carroll NEW YORK, May 26 (Reuters) - Christian Pulisic, Tyler Adams and Weston McKennie will lead the United States at the World Cup after head coach Mauricio Pochettino named his 26-man squad on Tuesday for a tournament the Americans hope ​wil...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The Stevens Point City Council has voted to award a $14.8 million contract to Miron Construction for a new City Hall at 1039 Ellis Street. Mayor Mike Wiza said he and the rest of the city staff were pleasantly surprised when nearly all the bids came in under the $15 million budget. "We ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau has been named one of the top 100 communities in America for retirees and renewed its Tree City USA designation for the 45th consecutive year, according to a pair of press releases from the Mayor's office. The retirement ranking comes from Investopedia, which ranked cities based on cost of l...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A long-anticipated road project begins this week in Stevens Point. Work begins Wednesday on Business 51, also known as Division Street, in Stevens Point. Early stages of the project will include the closure of Church Street between Business 51 and Water Street. That closure is expected to la...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- Portage County has hired a new Planning Director. Supervisors approved the hire of Scott Allen in mid-May after the previous Director was let go in March. Allen will oversee all aspects of Planning, Zoning, Land and Water Conservation, Geographic Information Services, On-Site Sanitary Waste,...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A man suspected of serious physical abuse of a child will not go to trial next week as previously scheduled. Court records show that a week-long trial for David Schmies was wiped from the calendar in mid-May when his defense team noted they were having difficulty finding an expert witness. P...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-Woodchucks) - The Wausau Woodchucks lost to the Madison Mallards, 8-3. Madison controlled the game from the start with a 4-run first inning, including a 3-run home run. Madison added single runs in the 4th and 5th innings to increase their lead. The Woodchucks are now 1-1 for the season. Their home op...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers widened their lead in the NL Central with a 6-0 win over the Cardinals. Kyle Harrison worked six innings and allowed just four hits. He improves to 6-1 this season and lowered his ERA to 1.57. Garrett Mitchell broke the game open with a 3-run home run in a 5-run 5th inning that put th...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Packers star running back Josh Jacobs was arrested over the holiday weekend and faces several domestic-related charges, according to the Hobert/Lawrence police department. According to a press release from the department, Jacobs was booked into the Brown County Jail on Saturday night, charges tha...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers are placing one of their top young pitchers on the injured list and calling up one of their more consistent minor league arms. According to Curt Hogg of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, starting pitcher Logan Henderson has been placed on the 15-day injured list due to a lower...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers are spending a lot of money this summer, hoping to find a diamond in the rough or two in their undrafted free agent class for 2026. According to Packerswire, which looked into the team's most recent contract totals, all ten undrafted free agents received at least $5,000 in g...

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...

May 27 (Reuters) - The rate on the most popular U.S. home loan rose to a nine-month high last week, as the Iran war kept oil prices elevated, ​fueling inflation concerns and pushing benchmark U.S. Treasury ‌yields higher. The average 30-year fixed-rate...

LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - New television drama "Star City" goes behind the Iron Curtain to look at the Soviet perspective of the Cold War space race. The eight-part series, premiering on ​Friday on Apple TV, is a spin-off of U.S. ‌sci-fi show "For All...

HANOI, May 27 (Reuters) - A heatwave gripping Vietnam has already placed immense pressure on the national power grid, the country's industry ministry said, adding the problem could get worse as the El Nino weather pattern is forecast ​to return from Ju...

By Colleen Howe BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) - China's latest carbon data suggests it has changed the way it calculates carbon emissions, reducing by half the emissions growth the country previously reported from 2020 to 2025, climate researchers argue in...

By Stine Jacobsen and Kate Abnett COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Financial institutions and investors have urged the European Union to maintain its opposition to new Arctic oil and gas drilling, as the bloc weighs revising its stance to ​prior...

By Nicolás Misculin May 27 (Reuters) - Leaders within Peronism, Argentina's main opposition movement, are looking to capitalize on President Javier Milei's declining popularity and push to form a broad alliance ahead of next year's presidential electio...

LONDON, May 27 (Reuters) - Britain will sign a new defence and security treaty with Poland on Wednesday to combat threats, including from an increasingly aggressive Russia, part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer's efforts to bolster ties with the rest ​of...

JOHANNESBURG, May 27 (Reuters) - Ghanaian nationals queued at Johannesburg's OR Tambo International Airport early on Wednesday to board one of the first flights home after waves of anti-immigrant protests in South Africa heightened ​safety concerns. Th...

ISTANBUL, May 27 (Reuters) - The reinstated chair of Turkey's main opposition party Kemal Kilicdaroglu said on Wednesday the party ​will hold a congress once ‌legal conditions are met, after a court ousted the previous leadership, triggering an interna...

By Gabriel Stargardter PARIS, May 27 (Reuters) - Paris prosecutors have opened a probe to determine whether three hard-left mayoral candidates were targeted by a foreign state seeking to meddle in French elections, they said on ​Wednesday, in a move th...

May 27 (Reuters) - The rate on the most popular U.S. home loan rose to a nine-month high last week, as the Iran war kept oil prices elevated, ​fueling inflation concerns and pushing benchmark U.S. Treasury ‌yields higher. The average 30-year fixed-rate...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Non-European satellite operators such as Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business can bid for European mobile ​satellite spectrum next year but the bulk of ‌the frequencies will b...

May 27 (Reuters) - Capri Holdings forecast annual profit above Wall Street estimates on Wednesday ​as the company bets ‌on its turnaround strategy focused on reviving Michael Kors to offset declining demand. Shares of the New ‌York-based ​firm rose 1% ...

BERLIN, May 27 (Reuters) - The head of Airbus Defence ruled out the complete failure of the crisis-hit ​Franco-German FCAS fighter jet ‌project, saying at least a networking system for weapons and drone programme would go ahead. • Plans to develop the ...

By Mike Dolan May 27 (Reuters) - What matters in U.S. and global markets today By Mike Dolan, Editor-at-Large, Finance and Markets The chips are indeed blue. The market scramble for AI stocks seems to know no bounds. Memory chipmaker Micron Technology ...

By Nancy Lapid May 27 (Reuters) - People who skip colorectal cancer screening because colonoscopy or stool testing seems too burdensome now have a blood test option from Guardant Health among recommendations by the American Cancer Society for detecting...

GENEVA, May 27 (Reuters) - Christian aid group Samaritan's Purse hopes to open within a week a 50-bed Ebola treatment centre ​in the area of the outbreak ‌in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, its President told Reuters. The World Health Organi...

May 27 (Reuters) - The vaccine arm of Australian biopharmaceutical giant CSL said on Wednesday it will discontinue ​sales of an injectable ‌medicine used to treat bacterial infections, citing the availability of several generic alternatives. CSL's Seqi...

By Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA, May 27 (Reuters) - The number of cases of Hantavirus linked to ​a cruise ship at the ‌centre of an outbreak has increased to 13, the head of the World Health Organization said on Wednesday. "Spain reported ‌a ​new case amo...

BEIJING, May 27 (Reuters) - Merck said its vaccine against bronchitis in chickens has ​been approved by the ‌Chinese agriculture ministry for use in the world's largest chicken-rearing country, which is home to over 5 ‌billion ​birds. Any chicks ⁠that ...

May 27 (Reuters) - Schaeffler and U.S.-based satellite operator Spire Global have signed a memorandum of ​understanding to jointly develop ‌space hardware and satellite platforms for European defence, weather and security applications. The companies in...

By Gianluca Lo Nostro and Akash Sriram May 27 (Reuters) - SpaceX's upgraded Starship launch on Friday delivered enough progress to keep the momentum intact behind Elon Musk's $1.75 trillion IPO, while warning that full reusability of the rocket remains...

May 26 (Reuters) - NASA awarded contracts to space firms including Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and Astrolab to send ​robotic landers, rovers and drones to ‌support the upcoming lunar exploration missions. The U.S. space agency said on Tuesday it had awarde...

By Mike Stone WASHINGTON, May 26 (Reuters) - The U.S. Space Force has awarded SpaceX a $2.29 billion contract to build a secure, high-speed satellite ​communications network to connect military sensors and ‌weapons platforms across the globe, the servi...

By Angelo Amante and Giuseppe Fonte ROME, May 26 (Reuters) - Canada's Telesat held preliminary talks with Italy to provide satellite services to ensure ​encrypted communications for the government, diplomats ‌and defence officials operating in high-ris...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, May 27 (Reuters) - Non-European satellite operators such as Elon Musk's Starlink and Amazon's low-earth-orbit satellite business can bid for European mobile ​satellite spectrum next year but the bulk of ‌the frequencies will b...

May 27 (Reuters) - Schaeffler and U.S.-based satellite operator Spire Global have signed a memorandum of ​understanding to jointly develop ‌space hardware and satellite platforms for European defence, weather and security applications. The companies in...

By Shashwat Chauhan May 27 (Reuters) - U.S. small-cap technology stocks are surging after years of underperformance, a sign of how the AI frenzy is pushing technology investors to look beyond the Nvidias and Intels of the world. Record U.S. equity infl...

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Abigail Summerville NEW YORK, May 27 (Reuters) - GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen shared few details when he said he would do "whatever we need to do" to buy eBay after the e-commerce company rejected his $56 billion unsolicited takeo...

By Mathieu Rosemain and Leo Marchandon PARIS, May 27 (Reuters) - Bollore CEO Cyrille Bollore on Wednesday urged Universal Music Group to reject Bill Ackman's takeover proposal, saying the offer undervalued ​the label, relied on the company's own cash a...

May 26 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment is in talks with FIFA to stream and broadcast the 2026 World ​Cup in the country, the company ‌said in a statement on Tuesday. • The announcement, which provided no financial details, comes as talks between ...

May 26 (Reuters) - Bad Bunny's upcoming Madrid concerts are boosting restaurant bookings in central leisure ​districts compared with the ‌same period last year, Tripadvisor-owned online restaurant reservation platform TheFork said on Tuesday. The Puert...

May 26 (Reuters) - Spotify said on Tuesday it is rolling out narrated articles from top publications including Rolling Stone, The Atlantic, Vogue, Variety and Vanity Fair ​for its audiobook users, as the platform diversifies its ‌content. The Swedish s...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, May 26 (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage says his new live-action series "Spider-Noir" will offer viewers a distinctive experience, with the option to watch it ​in black and white - "like an old movie" - or ‌in highly saturated...

By William Schomberg May 25 (Reuters) - Rollins had recorded the confidently titled "Jazz Colossus" album in 1956. But the saxophonist remained wracked with self-doubt. So, in the summer of 1959, he began to play on the windswept pedestrian walkway of ...