MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin Badgers fall to the Minnesota Golden Gophers by 17-7, wrapping up the 2025 season. UW's Ben Barton came up with a block on the 38-yard field goal attempt from Minnesota to try to keep the game scoreless for the whole quarter Minnesota opened the scoring with a 33-yard field goal, gi...

WAUSAU, WI -- (WSAU-WAOW) - There were thousands of runners in terrible weather for united way's Turkey Trot, Thanksgiving Day. Last year organizers say they raised $86,000 and had over 2,200 participants. The event is the largest fundraiser for the Hunger Coalition. United Way officials sat 100% of registration fees w...

RHINELANDER, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - A family in the Northwoods is dealing with the aftermath of a devastating fire that destroyed their home over the Thanksgiving weekend. Fire crews from multiple departments responded to a house fire on Lakeshore Drive in Rhinelander early Thanksgiving morning. Video from the Pine Lake Fire...

RIB MOUNTAIN, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Winter sports enthusiasts in central Wisconsin are thrilled as Granite Peak Ski Area opens for the season. The ski area will welcome skiers and snowboarders starting at 9am Friday for a three-day weekend. The recent natural snowfall and cold temperatures allowed the team to work around th...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Wausau police say on Monday evening officers seized over a quarter-pound of methamphetamine, underscoring their ongoing efforts to keep the city safe. "This is NOT an approved Thanksgiving ingredient," the department said, in a post Thursday showing the haul. Police say the WPD's Comm...

WAUKESHA, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - The Slenderman stabber, Morgan Geyser, is back in Wisconsin. Last weekend she cut off her monitoring device and fled from a group home in Madison. She and a 42-year-old took a bus to Illinois, and were caught at a truck stop near Chicago. Geyser, now 23, is being held in the Waukesha County ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Supreme Court will appoint two three-judge panels to determine if the state's congressional districts must be redrawn. The pending lawsuits claim the current maps are unconstitutional, and unfairly favor Republicans. 6 of Wisconsin's 8 seats in the House of Representatives are held by...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ) -- One of the women convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing in Waukesha, Morgan Geyser, has been found in Illinois after absconding from a Madison area group home. Madison police say Geyser cut off her GPS monitoring bracelet on Saturday night. Posen, Illinois Police confirmed to Madison's 12 News...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) - Charges have been brought against the mother of six-year-old Ruby Lehmann, who was the subject of a multi-day AMBER Alert last week. Chelsie Lehmann is accused of encouraging Jordan Coyle to have contact with Ruby, to the point of moving in with him at his home in Almond. Coyle, 34, wasn't al...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- As cold and flu season approaches, Gov. Tony Evers has signed an executive order aiming to ensure access to vaccines in Wisconsin. The order directs the state Department of Health Services to monitor medical evidence and guidance on the COVID-19 vaccines. If needed, the order instructs DHS to issue stand...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Walt Disney's animated "Zootopia 2" racked up an estimated $556 million in global ticket sales over the U.S. Thanksgiving weekend, providing a strong kickoff to Hollywood's crucial holiday moviegoing sea...

By Matt Tracy Nov 30 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump has commuted the seven-year sentence of former GPB Capital Holdings CEO David Gentile, with a White House official on Sunday countering the claims at trial brought by the Biden administration that...

By Ted Hesson and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security ...

WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - White House economic adviser Kevin Hassett said on Sunday that he would be happy to serve as the next chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve if chosen by President Donald Trump. Hassett's comments, which were made on Fox Ne...

By Uditha Jayasinghe KELANIYA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's death toll from Cyclone Ditwah climbed to 212 with 218 missing, officials said on Sunday, as flood waters breached a dam and rescue operations continued into a fourth day. Nearly a million p...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Venezuela's National Assembly will form a special commission to investigate U.S. President Donald Trump's deadly strikes on suspected drug trafficking boats off the Venezuelan coast and in the eastern Pacific Ocean, the congressional...

HALLANDALE BEACH, Florida, Nov 30 (Reuters) - A meeting between U.S. and Ukrainian officials in Florida on Sunday was "very productive," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, adding that work still remains towards ending Russia's war in Ukraine. "T...

By Ted Hesson and Jasper Ward WASHINGTON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - U.S. authorities believe the Afghan immigrant accused of ambushing National Guard members in Washington, D.C., was not radicalized until after he came to the United States, Homeland Security ...

By Joshua McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT TO BEIRUT, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Pope Leo said on Sunday that the only solution in the decades-long conflict between Israel and the Palestinian people must include a Palestinian state, reaffirming the Vatican's po...

BISHKEK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Allies of Kyrgyzstan's President Sadyr Japarov won a large majority of seats in a snap parliamentary election held on Sunday, preliminary results released by the electoral commission showed. (Reporting by Felix Light and Ai...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The Wisconsin Badgers fall to the Minnesota Golden Gophers by 17-7, wrapping up the 2025 season. UW's Ben Barton came up with a block on the 38-yard field goal attempt from Minnesota to try to keep the game scoreless for the whole quarter Minnesota opened the scoring with a 33-yard field goal, gi...

NEW YORK, NY (WSAU) - The return of Giannis Antetokounmpo wasn't enough. The Bucks lost their 6th straight game, falling to the Knicks in New York 118-109. Giannis had been out for two weeks with a groin injury. He scored 30m had 15 rebounds and 8 assists. Jalen Brunson scored 37 points and the Knicks, who advanced to...

SAN DIEGO, CA (WSAU) - The Badgers basketball team fell to Texas Christian in the finals of the Rady Children's Invitational in San Diego. The Badgers got off to a slow start and never recovered. The Badgers got within 7 points in the second half. John Blackwell scored 30 for the Badgers in defeat. Nick Boyd had 14. Da...

DETROIT, MI (WSAU) The Packers made key plays on 4th down, and the Lions did not, in a key 31-24 win. The Packers scored touchdowns on two 4th down tries, and completed a key pass late in the game to run out the clock. The Lions were stopped on two 4th downs by the smothering Packers defense. Jordan Love threw four to...

SAN DIEGO, CA (WSAU) - The Badgers basketball team returned to its winning ways with a 104-93 win over Providence. Wisconsin will play Texas Christian in the championship game of the Rady Children's Invitational. The Badgers have won the last three holiday tournaments they've played in. Nick Boyd led the team with a ca...

By Alan Baldwin DOHA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Formula One champion Max Verstappen revelled in McLaren's strategy horror show at the Qatar Grand Prix on Sunday as the Red Bull driver won again, days after the team's boss compared him to a movie monster who k...

By Alan Baldwin DOHA, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Oscar Piastri said it hurt more to finish second for McLaren in Qatar on Sunday than to be disqualified from the Las Vegas Grand Prix a week earlier. The Australian had qualified on pole position for Sunday's ni...

The Big Ten Conference championship game will be a battle of the top two teams in the Associated Press Top 25 poll as No. 1 Ohio State faces No. 2 Indiana at Indianapolis on Saturday. Beyond that pair, the top five of the most recent poll Sunday was a...

Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford used the team's first drive against the Carolina Panthers to set an NFL record for consecutive touchdown passes without an interception. Stafford threw his 28th consecutive touchdown pass without an interc...

Coastal Carolina fired head coach Tim Beck on Sunday after three seasons. Defensive coordinator Jeremiah Johnson will serve as interim head coach for the Chanticleers, who lost three in a row to fall to 6-6 this season. Beck, 59, guided Coastal Carol...

By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group has agreed to sell its last South American business Banmedica to Brazilian private equity group Patria Investments for $1 billion, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Sunda...

Dec 1 (Reuters) - Australian home prices rose in November with large gains in several state capitals, amid a record level of housing unaffordability, property consultant Cotality said on Monday. Prices increased 1% in November from October to a median ...

By Ahmad Ghaddar, Alex Lawler and Olesya Astakhova LONDON/MOSCOW, Nov 30 (Reuters) - OPEC+ will likely leave oil output levels unchanged at its meetings on Sunday, four OPEC+ sources said as the group slows down its push to regain market share amid fea...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - British finance minister Rachel Reeves on Sunday denied she mislead the public over official forecasts ahead of this month's budget, saying she had been honest about the need to build up a bigger fiscal buffer. In a speech on Novembe...

By Gwladys Fouche and Nerijus Adomaitis OSLO, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Norway's $2 trillion wealth fund said on Sunday it would vote for a shareholder proposal at Microsoft's annual general meeting this week requiring a report on the risks of operating in co...

By Tatiana Bautzer NEW YORK, Nov 30 (Reuters) - UnitedHealth Group has agreed to sell its last South American business Banmedica to Brazilian private equity group Patria Investments for $1 billion, two sources with knowledge of the matter said on Sunda...

MADRID, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Eight more wild boar with suspected cases of African swine fever were discovered near Barcelona, La Vanguardia newspaper reported on Sunday, as Spain struggles to limit the damage to a pork export industry worth billions of e...

Nov 29 (Reuters) - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Marty Makary said on Saturday that data showed 10 children had died because of COVID-19 vaccination shots. "There were, it appears, 10 deaths of children from the COVID shots. Now th...

MADRID, Nov 29 (Reuters) - About one third of Spanish pork export certificates have been blocked after the first outbreak of swine fever for three decades, Spain's agriculture minister said on Saturday. "Of the 400 export certificates to 104 countries,...

MADRID, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Spain's northeastern region of Catalonia has barred access to a natural park after six wild boar found dead near Barcelona tested positive for African swine fever in the country's first outbreak since 1994. The Collserola par...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Scientists have solved the mystery of 3.4 million-year-old fossils called the "Burtele Foot" discovered in Ethiopia in 2009, finding they belonged to an enigmatic human ancestor that lived alongside another closely ...

By Matteo Negri POMPEII, Italy (Reuters) -Pompeii's ancient Roman frescoes, shattered and buried for centuries, could get a second life thanks to a pioneering robotic system designed to support archaeologists in one of their most painstaking tasks: rea...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -A Russian Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft with two Russian cosmonauts and one NASA astronaut on board successfully docked with the International Space Station on Thursday, Russian space agency Roscosmos said. But the agency later reported that...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) -Whether they are a Siamese, Persian, Maine Coon, or Domestic Shorthair, there are hundreds of millions of cats living with people around the world. But despite their popularity as pets, the history of cat domestication has rem...

By Cassell Bryan-Low LONDON (Reuters) -European nations agreed on Thursday to increase spending on space over the next three years by about 30% to 22.1 billion euros, part of an effort to try to catch up to the U.S., China and private firms zooming ahe...

BERLIN, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Deutsche Telekom and the Schwarz Group are planning to jointly build a gigafactory for artificial intelligence, German newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Sunday. An "AI gigafactory" is a facility designed specifically to supp...

Nov 30 (Reuters) - Data analytics firm Databricks is in talks to raise $5 billion at a valuation of $134 billion, which is roughly 32 times this year's expected sales of about $4.1 billion, The Information reported on Sunday, citing investor documents ...

SEOUL, Nov 30 (Reuters) - South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang said personal information from its 33.7 million customer accounts was exposed via unauthorized data access. Coupang, dubbed the Amazon.com of South Korea, is the country's top online retai...

Nov 29 (Reuters) - American shoppers spent a record $11.8 billion online on Black Friday, up 9.1% from last year, final data from Adobe Analytics showed. Adobe Analytics, which tracks over 1 trillion U.S. retail site visits, expects shoppers to spend ...

Nov 29 (Reuters) - Micron Technology will invest 1.5 trillion yen ($9.6 billion) to build a new plant in Hiroshima in western Japan to produce advanced high-bandwidth memory (HBM) chips, the Nikkei reported on Saturday, citing people familiar with the ...

LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Tom Stoppard, one of Britain's best-known playwrights, has died at the age of 88. Below are some tributes and reactions. MICK JAGGER "Tom Stoppard was my favourite playwright. He leaves us with a majestic body of intellectual...

By Barbara Lewis LONDON, Nov 29 (Reuters) - "What's it about?" was a frequent response from bemused theatre-goers to "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead", Tom Stoppard's first stage triumph. Tired of being asked, Stoppard is said to have replied to ...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) -Actor Kiefer Sutherland, whose career spans four decades, says he got to expand his repertoire in the new Christmas movie "Tinsel Town". Sutherland stars as past-his-prime Hollywood actor Bradley Mack. Deemed difficul...

(Reuters) -Streaming platform Netflix was down for about an hour for several users in the United States on Wednesday evening, coinciding with the release of the fifth and final season of its hit series "Stranger Things". There were less than 800 report...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) -Filmmaker Shih-Ching Tsou takes audiences to a bustling Taipei night market in family drama "Left-Handed Girl", weaving in personal and "collected" experiences. Chosen to represent Taiwan at the 2026 Oscars, the movie...