PLOVER, WI (WSAU) -- Plover Administrator Steve Kunst is breathing a sigh of relief as construction wraps up on one of the biggest road projects in the village in recent memory. "We are finally seeing some orange barrels disappear," said Kunst. "County Highway B has been under construction from spring al...

MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - It's Christmas time at the Marshfield Children's Hospital, and Santa Clause himself stopped by with a ton of presents. Marshfield Children's Hospital's Child Life Program, which aims to normalize the hospital environment and provide patients with any kind of support they need, has gotten a ...

SCHOFIELD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) -The City of Schofield hopes a grant will help them expand an existing park. The Wisconsin DNR says the city applied for a 50 percent matching grant from the Knowles-Nelson Stewardship Program. The money would help buy a 0.13 acre parcel of land, and create a public access on Lake Wausau. If t...

STRATFORD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - This week we learned Rubi Vergara, one of the victims of Monday's shooting at Abundant Life Christian School in Madison, has ties to our area. Since then, community members have stepped forward to assist her family. Fans held a 50/50 raffle during Friday night's boys basketball game between ...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The owners of Just Right: Cakes, Coffee, Gifts have announced that they will be closing their shop permanently next month as they plan to move closer to home in 2025. They said they had an opportunity too good to ignore in a Facebook post on Thursday night saying, "This decision was incre...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Joe Biden signed 50 bills into law on Tuesday that include making the bald eagle the country's official bird and one that stops members of Congress from collecting their pensions if convicted of crimes. Biden also e...

By Keith Coffman Santa Claus took off early Christmas Eve aboard his reindeer-powered sleigh to deliver presents around the world. That is according to the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), a joint-U.S. and Canadian military command at ...

(Reuters) - An earthquake of magnitude 5.7 struck Catamarca in Argentina on Tuesday, the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (EMSC) said. The quake was at a depth of 133 km (82.64 miles), the EMSC said. (Reporting by Pretish M J in Bengal...

PARIS (Reuters) - French officials raised the death toll in Mayotte to 39 from 35, about 10 days after the islands were battered by a devastating cyclone. Authorities have said thousands may have died in Storm Chido when it hit the islands, a Frenc...

By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - The man accused of killing a woman on a New York City subway train by setting her on fire was charged with murder and arson in an initial court appearance on Tuesday. Sebastian Zapeta, a 33-year-old man who po...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Wednesday condemned comments by the Philippine defence minister about China, calling them "baseless accusations" that "maliciously attacked" China's ruling Communist Party. Gilberto Teodoro said on Tuesday that the Phil...

By Minwoo Park GWACHEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korea's suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol did not respond on Wednesday to a second summons by anti-corruption authorities who, along with prosecutors, are investigating his short-lived martial ...

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israel's military intercepted a missile early on Wednesday that was launched from Yemen and crossed into Israeli territory, the army said. Sirens were activated due to the possibility of falling shrapnel from the interception, the army...

QUITO (Reuters) -Ecuador's attorney general's office will seek charges against 16 military personnel over their suspected involvement in the forced disappearance of four minors, it said in a message on Tuesday. The four minors, aged between 11 and 15 y...

By Muvija M LONDON (Reuters) - The Church of England's second most senior cleric Stephen Cottrell will call in a Christmas sermon on Wednesday for repentance and change within an institution reeling from child abuse cover-up scandals. This year's f...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) -- The Green Bay Packers had no problems with the New Orleans Saints as they went off for a 34-0 victory on Monday Night Football at Lambeau Field. The Packers led 21-0 at the half and were never threatened. The Packers got three rushing TDs, one each from Josh Jacobs, Emanuel Wilson and Chris Broo...

CHICAGO, Ill (WSAU) -- Playing without Giannis or Damian Lillard for the second straight game was no problem for the Milwaukee Bucks as they rolled over the Chicago Bulls 112-91 on Monday night. The Bucks held the Bulls to 17 first quarter points and only 19 in the 4th quarter. Khris Middleton and Brook Lopez had 21 po...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers and Minnesota Vikings Week 17 matchup is being flexed to a new timeslot as the result could impact playoff seeding come January. In a post on X, the league announced that the NFC North rivalry game from U.S. Bank Stadium will now be "America's Game of the Week" on ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers will have one of their top weapons back for Monday Night Football after missing the team's last 10 games. After suffering an ankle injury in the 31-29 Week 4 loss to the Minnesota Vikings, Musgrave is being activated off injured reserve and will be eased back into the lineup...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - The 2025 season schedule for the Wausau Woodchucks has been announced featuring some key matchups. According to a press release by the team, on Monday, May 26, and Tuesday, May 27, the Woodchucks play the Kenosha Kingfish in their first away games of the season. On May 28, they play the Wisconsin Ra...

Aaron Rodgers has made it clear that if he plays a 21st NFL season in 2025, he'd like to do so with the New York Jets. But he's tried to turn the spotlight on the team's owner, Woody Johnson, when the topic of his future arises. Asked Tuesday whether ...

The Chicago Fire and midfielder Gaston Gimenez, who played for the club for the past five years, reached an agreement to terminate his contract on Tuesday. Gimenez, 33, joined the Fire in 2020 as a designated player after playing nearly a decade in hi...

Miami Dolphins linebacker Bradley Chubb will not be activated Wednesday when his 21-day window to return concludes, coach Mike McDaniel said Tuesday. The decision means Chubb will miss the entire 2024 season after trying to recover from a devastating ...

The Atlanta Falcons re-signed linebacker Rashaan Evans to the practice squad on Tuesday. Evans played in two games for the Falcons earlier this season and received one defensive snap and five on special teams. He was on the roster Weeks 9-15 before be...

The Arizona Cardinals' starting offensive tackles, Paris Johnson Jr. and Jonah Williams, will miss the rest of the season because of knee injuries. Cardinals coach Jonathan Gannon initially ruled them out on Tuesday for Saturday's game at the Los Ange...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Efforts will continue in 2025 to stabilise and prevent further declines in China's real estate market, China Construction News reported, citing a work conference held by the housing regulator on Tuesday and Wednesday. China will...

By Miho Uranaka, Makiko Yamazaki and Ritsuko Shimizu TOKYO (Reuters) - Private equity firms including KKR and Bain Capital offered from around 750 billion yen ($4.8 billion) to around 1.2 trillion yen ($7.6 billion) in a first round of bidding for ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's government is in final talks to compile a record over 115 trillion yen ($732 billion) general account budget for the fiscal year from April, Jiji news agency reported on Wednesday. The initial budget will likely exceed 110...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China approved a value-added tax law on Wednesday to take effect on Jan. 1, 2026, the official Xinhua said, bringing into one document previous regulations that have included exempting items from the tax. VAT, the largest tax ca...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -A leading indicator of Japan's service-sector inflation rose to 3.0% in November, accelerating for a second straight month, data showed on Wednesday, backing up the central bank's view that rising wages are prodding mor...

By Bhanvi Satija (Reuters) - U.S. retail investor fund flows into Novo Nordisk surged 32-fold on Friday, as the Danish drugmaker's weaker-than-expected obesity drug data offered a rare dip-buying opportunity, according to Vanda Research. Daily net ...

(Reuters) - China's WuXi AppTec said on Tuesday its subsidiaries have signed a deal with U.S.-based private equity firm Altaris LLC for the sale of its cell and gene therapy manufacturing unit, WuXi Advanced Therapies, for an undisclosed sum. (Rep...

By Ryan McNeill, Nafisa Eltahir, Lena Masri, Khalid Abdelaziz and Deborah Nelson LONDON/CAIRO/DUBAI (Reuters) - RCOM_World_Africa BLUSA1M OZATPM OUSHEM Famine in Sudan has expanded to five areas and will likely spread to another five by May, the globa...

LONDON (Reuters) -AstraZeneca has voluntarily withdrawn its marketing authorisation application with the EU's medicines regulator for its experimental precision drug for the treatment of a type of lung cancer, it said on Tuesday. The drug, datopotamab ...

(Reuters) - Merck will discontinue its drug for a bacterial infection that can lead to fatal diarrhea, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's website showed on Monday. The antibody drug, Zinplava, was first approved by the regulator in 2016 to pre...

(Reuters) - NASA's Parker Solar Probe was expected to make history on Tuesday by flying into the sun's outer atmosphere called the corona on a mission to help scientists learn more about Earth's closest star. "No human-made object has ever passed t...

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - Thirty Indian companies have answered the space regulator's call to build and operate constellations of Earth observation (EO) satellites in a groundbreaking private-public partnership to reduce the c...

YAKUTSK, Russia (Reuters) - Researchers in Siberia are conducting tests on a juvenile mammoth whose remarkably well-preserved remains were discovered in thawing permafrost after more than 50,000 years. The creature, resembling a small elephant with...

By Sebin Choi DAEJEON, South Korea (Reuters) - South Korean researchers have developed a lightweight wearable robot that can walk up to paraplegic users and lock itself onto them, enabling them to walk, manoeuvre obstacles and climb staircases. The...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Two Chinese astronauts this week completed a world-record spacewalk of more than nine hours, according to a statement from China's Manned Space Agency, marking another milestone for Beijing's rapidly expandin...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Apple has asked to participate in Google's upcoming U.S. antitrust trial over online search, saying it cannot rely on Google to defend revenue-sharing agreements that send the iPhone maker billions of dollars each year for...

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranian authorities have lifted a ban on Meta's instant messaging platform WhatsApp and Google Play as a first step to scale back internet restrictions, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday. The Islamic Republic has some of the...

(Reuters) - China's WuXi AppTec said on Tuesday its subsidiaries have signed a deal with U.S.-based private equity firm Altaris LLC for the sale of its cell and gene therapy manufacturing unit, WuXi Advanced Therapies, for an undisclosed sum. (Rep...

By Nivedita Bhattacharjee BENGALURU (Reuters) - Thirty Indian companies have answered the space regulator's call to build and operate constellations of Earth observation (EO) satellites in a groundbreaking private-public partnership to reduce the c...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's CATL, the world's largest electric vehicle battery maker, on Tuesday launched a new EV chassis that it says can withstand a 120-kph (75-mph) frontal impact without catching fire or exploding, as it touts safety as a key...

By Brad Brooks (Reuters) - A New Mexico criminal case against actor Alec Baldwin stemming from a fatal shooting on the set of his movie "Rust" in 2021 ended on Monday, with a prosecutor dropping her appeal of the case's dismissal. Special Prosecuto...

By Amy Tennery and Rory Carroll (Reuters) - A pair of Christmas Day games on Netflix will help the NFL build on its international footprint, league officials say, as the most popular professional league in the United States hopes to harness the str...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - FIFA and Netflix have signed a deal to broadcast the 2027 and 2031 editions of the Women's World Cup in the United States, world soccer's governing body said on Friday. FIFA said the Women's World Cup will be the first competit...

By Sarah Mills LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar-nominated Hollywood star Sigourney Weaver has made her West End debut as the magician Prospero in William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" and said she was glad she had taken on the role. The 75-year-old actor, kn...

By Danielle Broadway SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - Director Barry Jenkins believes it was important to revisit the Disney classic "The Lion King" with the prequel "Mufasa: The Lion King" for audiences to understand that the protagonist lion Mufasa was neve...