WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- A Wausau Alder will resign her seat Vicki Tierney will resign as District 9 representative, effective December 31, citing family priorities. "Serving on the Council means a real commitment of time and energy, and Alderperson Tierney has given that to District 9 since 2024," said Mayor Din...

TOWN OF PINE RIVER, WI (WSAU) -- A vehicle registered in Marathon County burned in the Lincoln County Town of Pine River on Thursday. The fire was reported at about 11:45 AM. A Lincoln County sheriff's deputy was first on the scene and tried to knock down the flames with an extinguisher, but the entire cab was already ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- A Central Wisconsin man has been sentenced for federal drug trafficking charges after making multiple sales from his home while awaiting sentencing on state charges. Mark Wortham will serve ten years in federal prison for possessing more than 50 grams of methamphetamine and maintaining a drug traf...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- A Portage County man accused of child sex crimes is now scheduled for trial in January. Jordan Coyle faces first-degree child sexual assault and one felony count for interference with child custody after investigators say he took his girlfriend's daughter as she was getting off the school bu...

MEDFORD, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A farm-raised deer on a deer farm in Taylor County tested positive for chronic wasting disease. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources was notified by the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection about the positive result. The detection is within 10 miles of th...

ALMA CENTER, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A school employee is in custody in Jackson County for allegedly making terroristic threats at the school. The Jackson County Sheriff's Office was contacted Thursday evening by officials at Alma Center-Lincoln High School. They reported finding a handwritten message in a school bathroom tha...

MADISON, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously selected Dr. Tonjanita (Tonja) L. Johnson as the next UWs president. Johnson, 57, currently serves as senior vice chancellor for academic and student affairs at the University of Alabama System, a position she has held since 2019. Her ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Three other women have made accusations against Packers running back Josh Jacobs according to newly released documents. Jacobs was charged in connection with an incident in May at his home involving his ex-girlfriend. Jacobs pled no contest to two misdemeanors, and missed the first 6 weeks of th...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway is dropping out of the 2027 mayoral race. On Friday she said she's discontinuing her campaign because of threats directed at her and family members. Madison police confirm that they are investigating several threats. No arrests have been made. Rhodes-Conway said th...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The only scheduled debate between Democratic gubernatorial candidate David Crowley and Republican candidate Tom Tiffany was held Wednesday evening. The debate was hosted and moderated by WISN-TV. The hourlong debate covered a range of issues, including inflation, education, data centers, imm...

(Corrects to show location of Asia Pulp & Paper is Indonesia, not Singapore, in paragraph 8) By Dewi Kurniawati and David Stanway JAKARTA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Thousands of hectares of land on palm oil and pulpwood concessions run by large listed firms w...

By Cynthia Kim and Minwoo Park SEOUL, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Members of the K-pop group Stray Kids are set to perform in some of the biggest venues of their careers, as their extended "RUN IT" world tour moves into ​more stadiums across North America and E...

NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - India's capital Delhi overtook Lahore in Pakistan to become the world's most ​polluted city on Friday, with air ‌quality reaching hazardous levels and visibility dropping as smog blanketed the city of 20 million people. • ...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Democratic US Senator Chris Van Hollen said on Thursday he would run for Senate majority leader, challenging Chuck Schumer, who has led the Democrats in the Senate since 2017, after the Democratic Party ...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Wildfires that hit large parts of Indonesia from August to October and plunged much of Southeast Asia into hazardous smoke were made much worse ​by "record-breaking" heat caused by human-induced climate ch...

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Four people were killed and two injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on an industrial ​zone in Russia's southern city of ‌Volgograd, regional governor Andrei Bocharov said on Friday, the deadliest attack on the city so far. Vo...

MOSCOW, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Russia's Investigative Committee, which handles serious crimes, said ​on Friday that ‌it had opened an investigation into the explosion of a car in Moscow that ‌Russian ​media reported ⁠belonged to an ⁠exiled Ukrainian politi...

By Panu Wongcha-um BANGKOK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - ASEAN is under increasing pressure at its upcoming summit to ease a five-year ban on Myanmar's military-backed leaders attending high-level meetings, after Thailand and several other members stepped up eng...

By Julio Rodrigues PRAIA, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Cape Verde President José Maria Neves is expected to win a second term on Sunday, an outcome that would cement full control of government by the island nation's oldest political party after ​its victory in l...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards navy said a tanker carrying liquefied natural gas struck a ​naval mine and suffered an ‌explosion in the Strait of Hormuz on Friday while using what they described was an "unauthorised and dangerous route"...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) The Bucks, playing on back-to-back nights, fell to the Lakers 123-112. Luka Doncic had 32 points, Sandro Mamukelashvili added 23. The Bucks were led by Tyler Herro was 25. He didn't play Tuesday in New York because of a knee injury. Milwaukee had an early 7-2 lead before the Lakers took control bef...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) Brewers star right-handed pitcher Jacob Misiorowski in ths year's Cy Young winner, the award that goes to the best pitcher in baseball. He received all 30 of the first-place votes from the Baseball Writers' Association. Misiorowski had the lowest earned-run-average in baseball, and led the league ...

NEW YORK, NY (WSAU) The Bucks remain winless on the road after a 117-85 loss to the Knicks in New York. Jalen Brunson had 23-points. Karl-Anthony Towns had 21 and 1 rebound for New York. The Knicks have won four straight. The Bucks have dropped 10 of their 11 games this season. Jamie Jaquez Jr led the Bucks with 16. T...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - Fairfield led 4-0 early, then the Badgers rattled off 20 consecutive points for a blowout win, 89-42. Austin Rapp had 15 points off the bench. Braeden Carrington and Owen Foxwell each had 14. Jaden Brown led Fairfield with 10 points. The Badgers are off to a 3-0 start and play Coastal Carolina on S...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - For the third straight year, Pat Murphy of the Brewers is baseball's manager of the year. No other manager has won the award for three consecutive seasons. Only two other managers have won the award three times in their careers. The award is voted on by the Baseball Writers' Association. Votes we...

By Field Level Media Nov 13 (Field Level Media) - Former Hart Trophy winner Nathan MacKinnon and two-time Norris Trophy winner Cale Makar sustained lower-body injuries in the second period of the ​Colorado Avalanche's 4-3 overtime loss to the host Otta...

By Field Level Media Nov 13 (Field Level Media) - Matt Boldy scored a hat trick as the visiting Minnesota Wild rallied to defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs 5-2 on Thursday night. Boldy received a drop pass from Ryan Hartman and slipped a wrist shot under ...

By Field Level Media Nov 13 (Field Level Media) - Cade Cunningham scored a career-high 52 points and added 11 assists to help the visiting Detroit Pistons post a 144-140 double-overtime victory over the Washington Wizards on ​Thursday. Cunningham becam...

By Field Level Media Nov 13 (Field Level Media) - Two-time FIFA Women's World Cup champions Megan Rapinoe and Julie Ertz were elected to the National Soccer Hall of Fame in their first year of eligibility, and David Beckham also was chosen ​for inducti...

By Field Level Media Nov 13 (Field Level Media) - Houston Astros designated hitter/outfielder Yordan Alvarez and Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong were unanimously selected as the American and National League Most Valuable Players, Major ...

LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - From the fallout of Nvidia chief Jensen Huang's sudden resignation to Anthropic's upcoming listing, tech remains in the driving seat for financial markets. US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are schedu...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - European shares opened lower on Friday, retreating from record highs hit in the previous session, while uncertainty over the outlook for ​the AI trade rippled through global markets ‌following Jensen Huang's abrupt resignation as Nvi...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Consumer prices in France ​rose 3.7% ‌year-on-year in October on an EU-harmonised basis, revised ‌down ​by ⁠0.1 points ⁠from a preliminary estimate, statistics office INSEE said on ​Friday. The harmonised inflation ⁠rate in ⁠the bloc...

TOKYO, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Japan's core consumer inflation is expected to surpass the central bank's 2% target for the second ​straight month in October as the ‌impact from the US-Israeli war on Iran continues, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. • The nat...

By David Milliken LONDON, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Faisa Omar applied for more than 500 jobs in the UK and got nowhere - a slog she likened to "shouting into the void". It took a 10-week training course, tailored to the green energy sector, to finally land h...

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic reported higher than expected revenue ​for the third ‌quarter on Friday, boosted by a continued strong performance in its travel health business. Bavarian's outlook increasingly ‌hinges ​on whethe...

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Novo Holdings-backed Windward Bio said on Thursday it had raised $175 million in its US initial public offering ​after selling about 10.3 million shares ‌at $17 apiece. The IPO price was within its marketed range of $16 to $18. Basel...

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Barrick Mining is furloughing some employees and subcontractors at its Kibali gold mine in Democratic Republic of Congo after ​officials reported two Ebola deaths in a ‌nearby community, according to an internal company memo seen by ...

By Mrinalika Roy Nov 12 (Reuters) - Pfizer will no longer sell its hormone replacement therapy Premarin, which has been available as a vaginal cream and three strengths of oral tablets, in Canada ​following an internal review. Premarin vaginal cream, u...

Nov 12 (Reuters) - Health Canada on Thursday warned consumers not to inject or consume unauthorized peptides after laboratory testing found bacterial contamination in one injectable ​peptide product seized from an Ottawa wellness store. The ‌product wa...

By Will Dunham Nov 12 (Reuters) - The European Space Agency has released its first big collection of data from the orbiting Euclid telescope's mission to map the universe's large-scale structure, including observations of more than 900 million galaxies...

ACCRA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Ghana has made its first hydrocarbon discovery in a carbonate reservoir system, opening new possibilities for future exploration, President John Dramani Mahama said ​on Tuesday. • Speaking at a conference in the Western ‌Regio...

Nov 9 (Reuters) - SpaceX is planning a roughly $24 billion gas-fired power plant and super-compute facility in Starbase, Texas, according to a public hearing notice. The rockets-to-AI company's request comes as opposition ​to data centers grows, with ...

(Corrects November 5 story, correcting entity that operates the X36 satellite in paragraph 3 and specifying it is ICEYE US that Stevens heads in paragraph 6) By Cassell Bryan-Low and Joey Roulette LONDON/WASHINGTON, Nov 5 (Reuters) - A Russian military...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Nov 4 (Reuters) - An orbiting atmospheric research spacecraft has detected the pungent gas hydrogen chloride above surface fissures along a massive ancient volcano on Mars in a finding that suggests Earth's planetary neighbor...

By Eduardo Baptista BEIJING, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Nvidia has said US export controls have effectively shut it out of China's AI data-centre market, but a Reuters review has identified more than $3 billion in Chinese computing projects built around the Am...

By Foo Yun Chee and Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, Nov 13 (Reuters) - European Union leaders gather in Dublin on Friday for their first ever summit on artificial intelligence, to debate how the bloc can catch up ​with the United States and China and tackle fun...

HONG KONG, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Chinese AI server maker xFusion Digital Technologies has cleared a key Shenzhen Stock ​Exchange review for its planned $1.2 ‌billion listing on ChiNext, the exchange's growth board, according to a filing. • The exchange's ...

SINGAPORE, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Singapore has charged a fifth person in a case involving ​the alleged false representation of ‌the end users of AI servers purchased from Dell, Super Micro Computer and Asustek Computer. • The case ‌involves Aperia ​Intern...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Malaysia on Friday said it is working to determine whether any AI chips imported by a unit of cloud computing firm Megaspeed were re-exported, after a US ​senator alleged the firm may have been used to circumvent ‌US co...

By Joyce Lee SEOUL, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Stock brokerage Samsung Securities has found brand ambassadors who never skip rehearsal and are unlikely to make tabloid headlines: a four-member, AI-generated K-pop girl group called LUMINA. The band's debut musi...

By Francesca Halliwell LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - British actor Jamie Campbell Bower said joining "The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power" fulfilled a childhood dream as the cast gathered in London for the global premiere of the fantasy series' thir...

By Bill Trott Nov 10 (Reuters) - Actor Stacy Keach, who portrayed rugged characters such as fictional detective Mike Hammer and legendary American novelist Ernest Hemingway, died on Tuesday at the age of 85, his wife said in a statement to Hollywood tr...

By Danielle Broadway LOS ANGELES, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Nicolas Cage so fully transformed himself into NFL legend John Madden for the new biopic "Madden" that co-star Kathryn Hahn says ​she spent an entire production with him without ever ‌feeling she had...

LONDON, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Two media groups named British comedian and bestselling children's author David Walliams on Tuesday as the high-profile figure who had tried to prevent allegations of sexual misconduct being published by saying he would take ...