WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Officials with Wausau Events and the city's Police Department want you to be ready for some traffic congestion this weekend, especially in the city's Southeast neighborhoods. That's where the municipal airport will host the annual Wings Over Wausau airshow. Parking on the event grounds will be rese...

UPDATED: Taylor Hackel has been found, according to a Facebook post from a family member. Several reports say the woman, who had been missing from her college in Washington DC, was found in the Eastern European country of Georgia. DCM police have not provided any further updates. This story will be updated as more inf...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Marathon County Sheriff's Office has announced a temporary safety zone and closures near Wausau Municipal Airport for the Wings Over Wausau Air Show on June 27-28, 2025. This will impact a large portion of Lake Wausau. Boaters should be aware that Lake Wausau will be closed from 5:30 p.m. t...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office believes a man reported missing in the Fox Valley is now somewhere in the Northwoods. Mitchell S. Reif was reported missing from Winnebago County on Sunday, June 22nd, when officers were called to his home for a welfare check. They were unable to find him and re...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Finance Committee voted to move forward with a proposal from the non-profit Bridge Street Mission to provide year-round overnight shelter services at their new location on First Avenue. Wausau Police Chief Matthew Barnes said the proposal is the only one they've received after two rounds...

Lionel Messi, arguably the most recognizable player in the Club World Cup, is steering viewership to his underdog team. Messi and his Inter Miami teammates are helping the expanded tournament draw U.S. television ratings that are roughly comparable to...

The next time the NHL decides to add new teams, the expansion fee is expected to be $2 billion-plus, Sportico reported on Thursday. While expansion isn't imminent, the league updated team owners at their Wednesday meeting in Los Angeles regarding the ...

New York Mets starting pitcher Griffin Canning was helped off the field Thursday night after sustaining a left ankle injury in the third inning of their home game against the Atlanta Braves. After the game, Mets manager Carlos Mendoza told reporters t...

Five pitchers combined for a three-hit shutout as the New York Mets overcame the loss of starting pitcher Griffin Canning to a left ankle injury to stop the visiting Atlanta Braves 4-0 Thursday night and earn a split of the teams' four-game series. Ca...

Former college basketball stars Ryan Kalkbrenner and Johni Broome went among the first five picks of the second round of the 2025 NBA Draft on Thursday night. Kalkbrenner, the 7-foot-1 center who won four straight Big East Defensive Player of the Year...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Officials with Wausau Events and the city's Police Department want you to be ready for some traffic congestion this weekend, especially in the city's Southeast neighborhoods. That's where the municipal airport will host the annual Wings Over Wausau airshow. Parking on the event grounds will be rese...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Marathon County Sheriff's Office has announced a temporary safety zone and closures near Wausau Municipal Airport for the Wings Over Wausau Air Show on June 27-28, 2025. This will impact a large portion of Lake Wausau. Boaters should be aware that Lake Wausau will be closed from 5:30 p.m. t...

MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office believes a man reported missing in the Fox Valley is now somewhere in the Northwoods. Mitchell S. Reif was reported missing from Winnebago County on Sunday, June 22nd, when officers were called to his home for a welfare check. They were unable to find him and re...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Wausau Finance Committee voted to move forward with a proposal from the non-profit Bridge Street Mission to provide year-round overnight shelter services at their new location on First Avenue. Wausau Police Chief Matthew Barnes said the proposal is the only one they've received after two rounds...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- For a second consecutive week, Wausau's Concert on the Square in the 400 Block will move to the Rothschild Pavilion. "The rainy forecast for today is greatly impacting our ability to have our Concert outside tonight," said Wausau Events Executive Director Alissandra Aderholdt. "It's ...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Supreme Court decided unanimously Wednesday that Governor Tony Evers overstepped his veto powers. The case is specifically referring to a bill that would fund new literacy programs designed to improve K-12 students' reading performance. Now, the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction (D...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Nearly half of Wisconsinites in a survey approve of the job Governor Tony Evers is doing however 55% do not want him to run again in 2026. That's according to the latest Marquette Law School poll survey released Wednesday. The survey was conducted June 13-19, 2025, interviewing 873 Wisconsin registered v...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- It's tick season in Wisconsin and health officials are warning of a rare virus spread by infected black-legged ticks. Nationally, Powassan virus cases are most common in the northeast and Great Lakes regions, including northern Wisconsin. According to national data from the CDC, Wisconsin has two human c...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The United States' recent bombings of Iran and Iran's subsequent attack on a U.S. military base in Qatar are sparking concerns of more retaliation, but not only in the traditional sense. A former FBI agent says there's a moderate risk Iran could respond with cyber attacks on U.S. infrastructure. Not nece...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- A new Miss Wisconsin has been crowned, and she's making history. Willow Newell, who competed in the annual pageant as Miss Racine, receives $13,000 in scholarships along with other gifts and awards. She will compete for the title of Miss America 2026 the first week of September in Orlando, Florida...

By Timothy Gardner and Shariq Khan WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. will not complete scheduled deliveries of crude oil into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve until the end of the year due to maintenance, as much as seven months behind schedule, the Depart...

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -The man charged with supplying explosives used to bomb a California fertility clinic in May took his own life while in pretrial custody, the Los Angeles County medical examiner ruled in autopsy results made public...

By Christian Martinez (Reuters) -New York City's incumbent Mayor Eric Adams launched his reelection campaign on Thursday following the surprise upset of progressive candidate Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary earlier this week. The mayor did no...

(Reuters) -Bill Moyers, a key member of Democratic President Lyndon Johnson's inner circle and later a guiding force in American journalism during more than 40 years in public television, has died at the age of 91, the Washington Post reported on Thurs...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Major automakers want Congress and the Trump administration to move faster to make it easier to deploy autonomous vehicles without human controls as new robotaxi tests expand. Congress has been divided for year...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday there would be "legal consequences" for organising or attending a Budapest Pride march in violation of a police ban on the event, planned for Saturday. "We are adults, and I recom...

(Reuters) -Traffic on the Don River in the Kalachevsky district of Russia's Volgograd region was temporarily restricted to eliminate wreckage from a "massive" Ukrainian drone attack, the regional governor's administration said on Friday. "Sappers are a...

(Reuters) -India and Russia discussed the supply of S-400 missile systems, upgrades to Su-30 MKI fighter jets, and the procurement of critical military hardware, the Indian government said on Friday. The defence ministers of both countries met on Thurs...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh told his Chinese counterpart that the two countries should seek a "permanent solution" to their decades-old border dispute, India's defence ministry said on Friday. Singh met China's Dong Jun o...

By Maggie Michael DAMASCUS (Reuters) -"Don't wait for her," the WhatsApp caller told the family of Abeer Suleiman on May 21, hours after she vanished from the streets of the Syrian town of Safita. "She's not coming back." Suleiman's kidnapper and anoth...

(Reuters) -Spain's European Union-harmonised 12-month inflation rate inched up in June to 2.2%, pushed higher by fuel and food and non-alcoholic beverages, preliminary data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) showed on Friday. The annual infla...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -The ECB should abandon targeting headline inflation and focus instead on price growth in discretionary spending to protect the bloc's poorest, a paper to be presented to policymakers at the bank's preeminent research conference arg...

LONDON (Reuters) -A momentous first half of 2025 comes to an end with trade, Federal Reserve independence and geopolitics staying high on the market watch list for the second half. And there's plenty to chew over: U.S. jobs data, a European Central Ban...

(Reuters) -French consumer prices rose more than expected in June, ending a streak of declining inflation as service costs accelerated and energy price falls moderated, preliminary data from statistics agency INSEE showed on Friday. France's harmonised...

(In last paragraph, corrects net profit growth to 45% instead of 4.5%) MILAN (Reuters) -Italian merchant bank Mediobanca said on Friday it would return 4.9 billion euros ($5.74 billion) to shareholders, mostly in cash, over three years to 2028 as it se...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Indian drugmaker Biocon has abandoned plans to market generic versions of Novo Nordisk's hot-selling diabetes and weight-loss drugs in China due to local competition, a senior executive said. "We decided not to do it in China, not s...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said on Friday there have been no recorded cases of synthetic drug fentanyl being seized by the customs department, neither as illegal exports nor illegal imports, in six years through 2024. Kat...

By Amina Niasse NEW YORK (Reuters) -UnitedHealth Group's health services segment, Optum Health, will be led by Patrick Conway, according to an internal company memo. A spokesperson for UnitedHealth said Conway's experience in value-based care, where pa...

By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) -CVS Health's pharmacy benefit manager unit must pay the U.S. government $95 million after a federal judge found it overcharged Medicare for prescription drugs. Chief Judge Mitchell Goldberg in Philadelphia ordered the pay...

(Reuters) -The external committee advising the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on vaccine policy voted that all adults in the country receive a seasonal flu shot in single-dose forms that are free from mercury-based preservative thimero...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Along the eastern shore of Hudson Bay in Canada's northeastern province of Quebec, near the Inuit municipality of Inukjuak, resides a belt of volcanic rock that displays a blend of dark and light green colors, with flecks of p...

By Cecile Mantovani and Olivia Le Poidevin GENEVA (Reuters) -Researchers at ETH University in Zurich have developed a new method to efficiently recover rare earth elements from electronic waste, advancing sustainable recycling and reducing mining relia...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Our species arose in Africa roughly 300,000 years ago and later trekked worldwide, eventually reaching some of Earth's most remote places. In doing so, our ancestors surmounted geographic barriers including treacherous ocean e...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -In addition to providing a trove of information about the early universe, the James Webb Space Telescope since its 2021 launch has obtained valuable data on various already-known planets beyond our solar system, cal...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Commission on Wednesday put forward the EU Space Act, a long-awaited overhaul of regulations affecting its fast-growing space industry. The legislation aims to create a single market for firms offering space services in...

By Yantoultra Ngui SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Japan's Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp (NTT) has lodged a preliminary initial public offering prospectus for its data centre real estate investment trust NTT DC REIT on the Singapore stock exchange, accordin...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Xiaomi won more orders than expected for its new YU7 electric sports utility vehicle in the first hours after it went on sale, sending the company's shares up 8% to an all-time high. The Chinese EV and smartphone maker on Thursday p...

TOKYO (Reuters) -SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son said on Friday that he wants the investment group to become the biggest platform provider for "artificial super intelligence" within the next 10 years. "We want to become the organiser of the industry i...

By Jun Yuan Yong SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Singapore's case against three men linked by local media to the illegal transfer of Nvidia's AI chips from Singapore to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek has been adjourned until Aug 22, the court rul...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Hawaiian Airlines said on Thursday that some of its IT systems were disrupted by a hack, adding its flights were operating as scheduled. In a statement, Hawaiian Airlines said "some of our IT systems" had been affected by a "cyber...

(Reuters) -Argentine musician Lalo Schifrin, composer of the memorable "Mission: Impossible" theme and the scores for dozens of Hollywood movies and TV shows, has died at age 93, media outlets reported on Thursday. Schifrin's son, William, confirmed hi...

(Reuters) -Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour on Thursday told employees that she will be seeking a new head of editorial content at American Vogue, according to several media reports. Wintour has begun the search for a new head of editorial content to...

By Sara Rossi VENICE (Reuters) -Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and journalist Lauren Sanchez were set on Thursday to start three days of lavish wedding celebrations in Venice, with tight security shielding their VIP guests from protesters. Oprah Winfrey, Kr...

By Luc Cohen NEW YORK (Reuters) -Closing arguments are due to kick off on Thursday in Sean "Diddy" Combs' sex trafficking trial, with prosecutors expected to tell the jury that he forced his former girlfriends to take part in sexual performances and th...

(Reuters) -Oscar-nominated Denis Villeneuve will direct the next "James Bond" film, Amazon's MGM Studios said on Wednesday, taking charge of one of Hollywood's most enigmatic spies and longest-running movie series. Villeneuve, the Canadian film directo...