WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -- A new transitional housing program in Wausau is helping single mothers rebuild their lives after homelessness or domestic violence. Ruth's Home is an extension of the Hager House, offering mothers a more hands-off and realistic living experience as they prepare for independence. Hagar House E...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- For a second time in three weeks, Concerts on the Square are heading indoors. Tonight's performance with Johnny and the MoTones has been moved to the Rothschild Pavilion due to the threat of rain, according to a press release from Wausau Events. "Whenever weather may impact the event experienc...

WAUPACA, WI (WSAU) -- A 31-year-old woman has been bound over for trial in connection with the death of Jon "Jake" Morgan. Desiree Osman of Antigo is accused of providing the drugs that led the 23-year-old to overdose back in 2020. Police say she hid his body, which led to an extensive search effort involving...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau man will serve prison time for firearms-related charges in connection with a 2023 shooting incident near the M and R Station. Joseph Slater will serve five years in prison and five years on extended supervision as part of a plea deal announced on Monday. The sentence comes after the 45-yea...

TOWN OF MERRILL, WI (WSAU) -- A Merrill man is facing disorderly conduct, battery, and reckless endangerment charges after a report of someone shooting a nail gun at the Rock Island Resort. Witnesses said Daniel Zulliger was becoming obnoxious with a group of people on a boat, including pushing someone overboard. He wa...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU) - Wisconsin and Waukesha County have lost a long-time political executive and leader. According to WISN, Waukesha County Executive Paul Farrow, 61, has passed away after a years-long fight with Stage 4 mucinous adenocarcinoma, a rare and incurable kind of stomach cancer thought to have begun in the ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - On Wednesday, a sentence was handed down in the case involving former Milwaukee County Judge Hannah Dugan. According to Fox News' Bill Melugin, Eastern District of Wisconsin Federal Judge Lynn Adelman rejected the prosecution's recommendation for a 15- to 21-month prison sentence, instead fining ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - To maintain, repair, and improve local roads and connecting highways, the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT) and Governor Tony Evers announced on Wednesday that counties and municipalities across the state received more than $180 million in the third quarterly payments for 2026 General...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - A new lawsuit filed by two prominent Wisconsin media organizations accuses the Evers administration of breaking open records laws. According to a post on X by Wisconsin Right Now, the outlet, along with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, filed the complaint on Tuesday after Gov. Tony Evers' administra...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - A new study on U.S. and statewide AI Data Center regulations has uncovered how foreign governments and companies are influencing voters and local lawmakers to reject AI Data Center construction in the United States, including in Wisconsin. According to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a non-profit, non...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - A zoo in southwestern China locked lions, bears and wolves in their cages as deadly flooding triggered by Typhoon Maysak swept through the region, a decision that the animal rights group PETA ​on Friday called "unconscionab...

By William James and Muvija M LONDON, July 10 (Reuters) - The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in nearly 1,000 years ahead of a sell-out exhibition at the British ​Museum, travelling under police escort during a meticulously ch...

TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - Japan's weather ​bureau ‌said on Friday that the ‌El ​Nino ⁠phenomenon has ⁠been observed since spring and that ​there was ⁠a ⁠100% chance ​it will ​continue through the ‌Northern Hemisphere autumn. El Nino ⁠is a warming of o...

By Emma Pinedo MADRID, July 10 (Reuters) - At least 11 people died in a wildfire in Almeria in southern Spain, a popular holiday destination, and 19 were missing, with firefighters on Friday still battling to bring one of the country's deadliest blazes...

By Joseph Campbell and Kim Kyung-Hoon ISHIGAKI, Japan, July 10 (Reuters) - A large and powerful typhoon approached a remote chain of islands in Japan's southwest on Friday, prompting authorities to warn of violent winds, torrential rain, landslides and...

BANGKOK, July 10 (Reuters) - Thailand's Labour Court on Friday accepted a petition from three Thai sailors seeking damages after a deadly attack on their cargo vessel in the Strait of Hormuz in March, during ​the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran, their lawyer ...

DAKAR, July 10 (Reuters) - Senegal's top court has struck down changes to the country's constitution that would have altered the ​balance of power in government, ruling ‌against an amendment adopted by parliament last month. • Thursday's Constitutional...

By Uditha Jayasinghe COLOMBO, July 10 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's efforts to reduce prison overcrowding by reopening a colonial jail and recruiting more staff after a deadly riot left 28 people dead need to be underpinned by a commitment to international ​...

By El Tayeb Siddig KHARTOUM, July 10 (Reuters) - In the year since the Sudanese army recaptured the capital Khartoum from a paramilitary force that had seized it at the outset of civil war in 2023, more than 2 million of the 5 million people who fled t...

BEIJING, July ​10 (Reuters) - ‌China's ‌President ​Xi ⁠Jinping ⁠met with ​North ⁠Korea's ⁠Premier ​Pak ​Thae Song ‌in ⁠Beijing on ⁠Friday, ‌Chinese ⁠state ​broadcaster ‌CCTV ​reported. (Reporting ⁠by Beijing ​Newsroom;)...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers have their first player on the 2026 NFL Top 100 list. During Thursday morning's announcement, running back Josh Jacobs was ranked 74th in the league after rushing for 929 yards and 13 touchdowns for the Packers last season. Jacobs finished 33rd on the list for the 2024-2025 ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers will be without one of their top pitchers for an extended period of time. According to the team, an MRI revealed new damage to Brandon Woodruff's anterior capsule, which will be surgically corrected after the 2023 season. The Brewers intended to refer Woodruff to surgeon Dr....

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers have announced that one of their top young pitchers will be returning to the rotation this week to face the division rival Cardinals. According to Brewers insider Adam McCalvy, Logan Henderson, who has been on the injured list with a back strain since late May, will return t...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Bucks and five other teams have agreed to a deal sending a variety of picks and players to new teams. According to ClutchPoints Brett Siegel, the Bucks have acquired veteran guard Caris LeVert and two second-round picks from the Pistons, while also sending veteran players Taurean Pr...

ST. LOUIS, MO (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers defeated the St. Louis Cardinals 4-3 in Game 1 of Tuesday's doubleheader, thanks to another outstanding performance by their ace, Jacob Misiorowski. Misiorowski, who earned his tenth win of the season, struggled to begin the game, allowing a two-run home run to Jordan Walker...

July 10 (Reuters) - Kaylee McKeown has withdrawn from this year's Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games due to medical issues, saying she has struggled ​with fatigue, shortness of breath and a loss ‌of appetite for several months. The 24-yea...

Framber Valdez threw seven innings of one-run ball to lead the Detroit Tigers to a 4-1 win over the visiting Athletics on Thursday night. Valdez (5-6) retired the first 11 hitters he faced and allowed just three hits, struck out nine and issued no wal...

Philadelphia Phillies interim manager Don Mattingly made it clear Thursday that he's open to staying on beyond this season. Talking to reporters after ESPN reported ​his interest on Wednesday, Mattingly confirmed the ‌possibility. "I like doing it," ...

One group from the Boston Celtics and another from the San Francisco 49ers are the leading candidates to buy the reigning Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks, Front Office Sports reported on Thursday. Current Celtics minority owner Aditya Mittal and ...

Amid a tough season for him and the New York Mets, Mark Vientos is expected to be placed on the injured list after fracturing ​a bone in his right hand on a ‌hit by pitch Thursday. In a 7-3 home win over the Kansas City Royals, Vientos was struck on t...

July 10 (Reuters) - S&P 500 and Nasdaq futures eased on Friday, halting a strong Wall Street rally as investors weighed Middle East tensions and awaited the highly anticipated Nasdaq debut of South Korean chip bellwether SK Hynix. The main U.S. indexes...

By Rocky Swift and Ankur Banerjee TOKYO, July 10 (Reuters) - Japan is calling its capital home, a move that investors say will ripple across global markets and could finally lift the yen and direct money into the prime minister's artificial intelligenc...

July 10 (Reuters) - Volkswagen reported a 8.6% decline in global deliveries in the second quarter on Friday, ​as a sharp drop in ‌China outweighed gains in North America and Western Europe. Deliveries in China, the automaker's largest market, fell 36.6...

July 10 (Reuters) - BMW reported a 4.9% decline in global vehicle ​deliveries in the ‌second quarter on Friday, hit by a sharp drop in sales in ‌China. • ​The group ⁠sold 590,962 vehicles ⁠in the quarter • In China, deliveries plunged 30.2% year-on-yea...

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 10 (Reuters) - Japan is steering its Government ​Pension Investment Fund, ‌the world's biggest pension fund, to boost investment in domestic assets, Finance Minister ‌Satsuki ​Katayama said on ⁠Friday. The fund h...

By Clement Bonnerot BUNIA, July 10 (Reuters) - Four out of every five new Ebola cases in parts of Democratic Republic of Congo have no known link to existing patients, a senior World Health Organization official said, warning that the true ​scale of th...

By Andreas Rinke and Maria Martinez BERLIN, July 10 (Reuters) - Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday approved a bill ​to overhaul the creaking health insurance ‌system that has drawn fierce opposition from drugs companies which fear tougher pr...

PARIS, July 10 (Reuters) - The Philippines has reported an outbreak of ​highly pathogenic H5N1 ‌bird flu among backyard birds in its Oriental Mindoro province, the World Organisation ‌for ​Animal Health (WOAH) ⁠said on Friday. The ⁠spread of avian infl...

July 10 (Reuters) - Bayer said on Friday it had secured €3 billion ($3.4 billion) in equity from ​Apollo-managed funds in a deal ‌tied to its long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARC, business, aiming to bolster its capital structure while prese...

By Christine Chen SYDNEY, July 10 (Reuters) - Australia on Friday confirmed the first case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in a local seabird, raising concerns that the disease is beginning to spread more ​widely after it landed in the country last m...

BEIJING, July 10 (Reuters) - China on Friday successfully tested an experimental rocket retrieval system using a net attached to a sea platform, state media reported, in the hope of breaking U.S. dominance in reusable rockets. The Long March 10B rocket...

By Steve Gorman July 9 (Reuters) - Wally Funk, the trailblazing aviator who became the oldest person to fly to space some 60 years after first undergoing astronaut training with 12 other American women at the dawn of the Space Age, has died in Texas at...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - In about 5 billion years, our sun will begin its death throes by expanding in size and engulfing the innermost planets - possibly including Earth - before expelling its outer layers and forming a stellar re...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, July 8 (Reuters) - A quasar - among the universe's most luminous and energetic objects - is a supermassive black hole caught in the act of guzzling matter at the heart of a galaxy. Scientists have now found quasars dating to ...

By Kantaro Komiya TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) - Japanese moon transport company ispace said on Wednesday it would start a new, lower-cost lunar cargo business using the Starship heavy rocket and moon lander developed by ​Elon Musk's SpaceX. Tokyo-based is...

By Wen-Yee Lee TAIPEI, July 10 (Reuters) - Taiwanese memory chipmaker Nanya Technology said on Friday it plans capital spending of more than T$200 billion ($6.2 billion) next year, ​roughly four times this year's figure, amid soaring demand ‌for memory...

By Gregor Stuart Hunter SINGAPORE, July 10 (Reuters) - At least 10 fund managers, including major issuers Direxion and ProShares, have filed ​registrations to list single-stock exchange-traded funds ‌tracking SK Hynix soon after the chipmaker begins tr...

(Corrects SK Hynix and Micron's price per forward earnings in paragraph 14) By Utkarsh Shetti July 10 (Reuters) - SK Hynix's U.S. trading debut on Friday following a $26.5 billion share sale will be a key test of investors' belief in the durability of ...

By Valentina Za and Elvira Pollina MILAN, July 10 (Reuters) - Italy has picked an unlikely champion to develop its technology infrastructure and protect digital sovereignty: its national postman. Poste Italiane, the postal service which pays out pensio...

By Fanny Potkin and Kane Wu SINGAPORE, July 9 (Reuters) - Chinese gaming and internet ​company Tencent is ‌in talks to become Manus' largest shareholder as investors seek alternatives after Beijing ordered Meta ‌to ​unwind its $2 billion ⁠acquisition o...

July 9 (Reuters) - Streaming firm FuboTV on Thursday named Disney executive Alisa Bowen as CEO effective July 10, while ​removing company veteran David Gandler as ‌top boss. Bowen, 53, joins FuboTV from Walt Disney, where she served as president of the...

WASHINGTON, July 9 (Reuters) - IHeartMedia resolved a Federal Communications ​Commission probe ‌into allegations its radio stations pressured artists to ‌perform ​at ⁠station-hosted music ⁠shows or festivals in exchange for more favorable ​airtime f...

By Sarah Young LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - The gravelly tone that made Bonnie Tyler's singing instantly recognisable was the result of an accident. After an operation to remove vocal cord nodules in 1977, she was ordered to rest her voice. But one day s...

LONDON, July 9 (Reuters) - Mick Jagger said the Rolling Stones hope to tour their new album "Foreign Tongues", as the veteran rockers launched their latest record ​with a starry drone lights show in London ‌on Wednesday night. "Foreign Tongues" is set ...

By Dawn Chmielewski and Jody Godoy July 8 (Reuters) - U.S. states concerned that Paramount's $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery will hurt competition could sue to block the deal as soon as next week, two sources familiar with the ​matte...