WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau's Human Resources Committee has voted in favor of another test run for summer hours at City Hall. After a trial in 2024 showed promising results among city staff, Alders have voted to collect more data by opening 45 minutes earlier and closing at 12:15 on Friday afternoons. City Clerk Kaitly...

TOWN OF KINGSTON, WI (WSAU) -- An 80-acre wildfire in Juneau County briefly evacuated more than 40 homes, according to the Wisconsin DNR. Officials have named it the Warthog Fire, which is burning in the Town of Kingston and Mather. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials note that dry conditi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The former Town of Bergen Clerk has pleaded not guilty to nearly a dozen charges related to the theft of public funds from the township. Gloriann Doyle is accused of writing multiple unauthrized checks to herself, totaling more than $100,000, after other leaders found irregularities in the town's f...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Jordanian man accused of raping a Wausau woman who he met on a Muslim dating site and married through Sharia law will go to trial in August. Mohammad Alsayouri faces three counts of second-degree sexual assault-causing injury. According to the victim, the 37-year-old forced himself on her after s...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny says operations at the city's temporary overnight shelter located in the basement of First United Methodist Church have been smooth. Diny spent time helping with registration and other check-in operations during the first few days at the shelter. "I'm extremely impressed...

The Texas Rangers recalled veteran infielder Jake Burger from Triple-A Round Rock and optioned first baseman Blaine Crim as the team prepared to host the Colorado Rockies in the first of a three-game set on Monday. Burger struggled out of the gate wit...

The Pittsburgh Pirates activated shortstop Isiah Kiner-Falefa from the 10-day injured list while also optioning Liover Peguero to Triple-A Indianapolis on Monday. Kiner-Falefa was placed on the injured list on May 3, retroactive to May 1, with a right...

Philadelphia was immediately installed as a consensus touchdown favorite when it was revealed Monday that the Eagles will open their Super Bowl title defense at home against Dallas on Thursday, Sept. 4. Most regulated sportsbooks have the Eagles as an...

The Cleveland Browns placed linebacker Jeremiah Owusu-Koramoah on the reserve/physically unable to perform list on Monday, putting an end to hopes he could return for the 2025 season after suffering a neck injury in October 2024. Owusu-Koramoah hasn't...

The Arizona Diamondbacks are calling up their top prospect in shortstop Jordan Lawlar, multiple outlets have reported. Lawlar, the No. 4 overall prospect according to MLB.com, will make the jump from Triple-A Reno, where he batted .336 with 15 doubles...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau's Human Resources Committee has voted in favor of another test run for summer hours at City Hall. After a trial in 2024 showed promising results among city staff, Alders have voted to collect more data by opening 45 minutes earlier and closing at 12:15 on Friday afternoons. City Clerk Kaitly...

TOWN OF KINGSTON, WI (WSAU) -- An 80-acre wildfire in Juneau County briefly evacuated more than 40 homes, according to the Wisconsin DNR. Officials have named it the Warthog Fire, which is burning in the Town of Kingston and Mather. The cause of the fire is still under investigation, but officials note that dry conditi...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The former Town of Bergen Clerk has pleaded not guilty to nearly a dozen charges related to the theft of public funds from the township. Gloriann Doyle is accused of writing multiple unauthrized checks to herself, totaling more than $100,000, after other leaders found irregularities in the town's f...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Jordanian man accused of raping a Wausau woman who he met on a Muslim dating site and married through Sharia law will go to trial in August. Mohammad Alsayouri faces three counts of second-degree sexual assault-causing injury. According to the victim, the 37-year-old forced himself on her after s...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- Wausau Mayor Doug Diny says operations at the city's temporary overnight shelter located in the basement of First United Methodist Church have been smooth. Diny spent time helping with registration and other check-in operations during the first few days at the shelter. "I'm extremely impressed...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Two national online suppliers of aquatic animals have been convicted for ignoring warnings from the Wisconsin DNR and repeatedly shipping illegal invasive species to schools, residents and businesses throughout the state. In March and April 2025, the two companies based in North Carolina and Indiana, res...

WAUPUN, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- A Milwaukee woman was arrested after allegedly making hundreds of threats toward employees of the Waupun Correctional Institution. Trina Brown, 32, was taken into custody Monday following a search warrant where electronic devices were seized. Investigators say multiple prison employees receive...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- When the Milwaukee Public Museum reopens in its new home, it will also have a new name. The museum announced Tuesday that it will change its name to the Nature & Culture Museum of Wisconsin and adopt a new logo when it opens the doors to its new home at the corner of N. Sixth Street and...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- Five police officers from Ohio have been cleared of wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a man near the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WITI-TV reports. The Milwaukee County District Attorney's Office ruled that the officers were justified in shooting 43-year-old Samuel Sharpe l...

MARQUETTE COUNTY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- No adults are in custody at this time after a seven-year-old boy fatally shot his three-year-old sister over the weekend, the Marquette County Sheriff says. Sheriff Joseph Konrath says the children are not from the area and were visiting with family members in Crystal Lake Saturday n...

By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Here are five takeaways from Monday's first day of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' New York trial where he faces federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, could face life in...

By Sarah N. Lynch WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI ordered agents on Monday to step up the amount of time they devote to immigration enforcement and to scale back investigating white-collar crime, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters. In...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday urged localities to "take back the streets" from homeless encampments, proposing language for every city and county to use in a local ban on camping in public. Newsom, a Democr...

By Virginia Furness LONDON (Reuters) -Global banking regulators on Monday agreed to intensify efforts to better understand the financial risks posed by climate change amid pushback from the United States. The oversight body of the world's forum for ban...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Energy on Monday proposed to eliminate or change more than 40 regulations and programs to align them with President Donald Trump's efforts to relax federal rules and gut diversity initiatives. The moves will save U.S. ...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Armed clashes erupted on Monday evening and gunfire has echoed in the city center and other parts of the Libyan capital Tripoli following reports that an armed group leader was killed, three residents told Reuters by phone. The ...

By Mariko Katsumura and Kyung Hoon Kim TOKYO (Reuters) -It's a cold, wet morning and frigid air is seeping through the open doors of a college gymnasium in Tokyo. But that doesn't seem to worry Soichiro Kakimoto and 30 other young businessmen as they g...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke on Monday and agreed to strengthen trade, commercial, and defence ties, according to a statement from the Canadian prime minister's office. The tw...

By Sergio Goncalves and Miguel Pereira LISBON (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of devotees of the Virgin Mary on Monday gathered at the sanctuary of Fatima in Portugal to pray for newly-appointed Pope Leo XIV and global peace. Church officials sa...

By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Here are five takeaways from Monday's first day of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' New York trial where he faces federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, could face life in...

LONDON (Reuters) -British shoppers overcame their worries about a global trade war and sharply increased their spending in April with Easter and sunny weather boosting sales of food, gardening equipment and clothing, data showed on Tuesday. Sales repor...

(Reuters) -A coalition of American film industry unions and guilds, joined by veteran actor Jon Voight, has asked U.S. President Donald Trump to consider implementing tax incentives in his push to promote domestic film productions, according to a lette...

(Reuters) -Alphabet's Google has been demonstrating to employees and outside developers an array of different products, including an AI agent for software development, ahead of its annual developer conference, The Information reported on Monday. The ag...

(Reuters) - Argentina's monthly inflation rate is seen hitting 3.1% in April, a dip from the 3.7% rate recorded in March, according to the median forecast of a Reuters poll published on Monday. Inflation in the South American country has slowed dra...

(Reuters) -Amazon has signed up FedEx to handle some parts of its package deliveries, it said on Monday, days after rival UPS cited reduced shipping volumes from the e-commerce giant as a reason to cut 20,000 jobs. FedEx shares rose 1.2% after the clos...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said on Monday that it would announce a list of 15 drugs eligible for a third round of Medicare price negotiations by early February next year. For the first time, the list would incl...

(Reuters) -DaVita beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter profit on Monday, driven by steady demand for its kidney dialysis services. The company provides these services for patients with chronic kidney failure through a network of outpatient clin...

(This story has been corrected to fix the spelling of the company name in the headline, and to add a dropped word 'to,' in paragraph 3) MADRID (Reuters) -Grifols's net profit almost tripled from a year earlier, which the Spanish drugmaker said reinforc...

By Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Pentagon is halting gender-affirming healthcare for transgender troops as it moves to implement President Donald Trump's plan to kick them out of the U.S. military, according to a memo seen by Reute...

By Leah Douglas and Tom Polansek (Reuters) - Hundreds of veterinarians, support staff and lab workers at the animal health arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture have left under the Trump administration's push for resignations, according to thre...

By Borja Suárez MADRID (Reuters) -Spanish technology company GMV has unveiled a GPS-like navigation system for the moon that aims to make lunar missions as intuitive as a drive across town with apps such as Google Maps or Waze. Called LUPIN, the projec...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Tuesday said SpaceX's proposal to increase the annual number of Starship launches from Texas to 25 would not have a major impact on the surrounding environment, green-lighting the compan...

PARIS (Reuters) -The European Space Agency said on Monday it was studying the impact of U.S. budget proposals that include cuts to NASA moon programmes in which it has a role and remained open to co-operation with the U.S. space agency. Ministers from ...

By Elizabeth Pineau PARIS (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Monday a 500 million euros ($566.6 million) incentive package to boost European science research, as Europe hopes to lure top U.S. scientists disg...

(Reuters) -SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday in an X post that the company's satellite system Starlink is now available in Congo. Democratic Republic of Congo said on Friday that it had become the latest African country to grant a license to Starlink...

By Casey Hall and Sophie Yu SHANGHAI (Reuters) -Chinese e-commerce giants Alibaba and JD.com have opened a new front in the ongoing battle for market share, with both expanding aggressively into so-called instant retail centred around delivery speeds o...

(Reuters) -Amazon has signed up FedEx to handle some parts of its package deliveries, it said on Monday, days after rival UPS cited reduced shipping volumes from the e-commerce giant as a reason to cut 20,000 jobs. FedEx shares rose 1.2% after the clos...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. auto safety investigators asked Tesla to answer questions on its plans to launch a paid robotaxi service in Austin, Texas, in June, in order to assess how the electric vehicle maker's cars with full s...

(Reuters) -Perplexity AI is in advanced talks to raise $500 million in a funding round that would value the startup at $14 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter. Venture capital firm Accel is set to...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) -EU antitrust regulators, who are examining European satellite company SES's $3.1-billion bid for Intelsat, have asked the two companies' customers whether Elon Musk's Space X-owned Starlink is a credible rival to the...

By Lisa Richwine (Reuters) - Here are five takeaways from Monday's first day of music mogul Sean "Diddy" Combs' New York trial where he faces federal charges of sex trafficking and racketeering. Combs, who has pleaded not guilty, could face life in...

(Reuters) - Universal Music Group, the world's biggest music label, said on Monday it has appointed Matt Ellis as its new chief financial officer. Ellis, a former finance chief at Verizon Communications, will succeed Boyd Muir, who was made chief o...

By Miranda Murray and Hanna Rantala CANNES, France (Reuters) -Movie legends from Tom Cruise to Denzel Washington will gather in Cannes this week for the 87th incarnation of its film festival, as the industry tries to shake off worries over dwindling au...

CANNES, France (Reuters) -The Cannes Film Festival will roll out its red carpet on Tuesday with Tom Cruise, Pedro Pascal and Scarlett Johansson among the stars expected at the 78th incarnation of cinema's biggest showcase. Below are some facts about th...

By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) -Stanley Tucci is no stranger to hosting a television series, but when asked how it compares to acting, the Oscar nominee is clear: "Hosting is harder because you have to be yourself. "And the reason actors be...