WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The next step in finalizing the 2027 Wausau School District budget was completed on Monday, when the Board of Education reviewed the numbers at its annual meeting. Assistant Superintendent for Operations Dr. Elizabeth Channel says district leaders have worked to present a balanced budget for the se...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, WI (WSAU) -- Wisconsin Rapids Mayor Matt Zacher says one step remains in the debate over a proposed data center from PNK Group. After failing at the plan commission level, the proposal still goes to the city council in October. Zacher says the vote of no confidence stems from gaps in the developer's p...

RINGLE, WI (WSAU-WAOW) - Three birds rescued after the Ringle F-3 tornado in April were released back into the wild at Riverside Elementary. A red-tailed hawk, a merlin and an American kestrel took flight as students watched from the playground. Before the release, students heard from Raptor Education Group, Inc. Exec...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) A woman was rescued from the Wisconsin River near downtown Wausau on Saturday night. How or why she went into the water is unclear. First responders say she was clinging to a buoy when she was pulled to safety around 7pm. The woman may have entered the water near the Bull Falls gazebo, a well-known h...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The city of Stevens Point has confirmed a cybersecurity incident caused telephone and email outages this week. Mayor Mike Wiza says staff received a Wednesday alert about issues with several servers. The IT department determined there was unauthorized access to the city's network and quickly...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- Another big-time concert is coming to the UW Madison campus as Metallica brings the M72 World Tour to Camp Randall on Saturday, June 12th. Tickets will go on sale next week, with presales beginning Monday, September 21st. General on sale is Friday, September 25th. The announcement was part of a No...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - Josh Jacobs, the star starting running back of the Green Bay Packers, appeared in Brown County court on Thursday morning to plead no contest to misdemeanor battery and property damage charges stemming from a May domestic altercation with his now-ex-girlfriend. According to ESPN's Rob Demovsky, th...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany is explaining why his campaign declined to participate in this cycle's Wisconsin Broadcasters Association debate. In an interview with "The Dan O'Donnell Show" on Tuesday, Tiffany said, "I think one debate will be sufficient to cover the ...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - The Wisconsin Broadcasters Association gubernatorial debate will no longer take place after one of the candidates failed to accept the invitation. According to a press release from the WBA, "Two invitations were sent, and both had to be accepted to have a debate. That did not happen." The...

FOND du LAC, WI (WSAU) Additional charges have been filed against Benjamin Larson after several human skulls and bones were found inside his home. He was initially charged last month with felony stalking. Investigators said he repeatedly changed his story about the human remains that were discovered. It's now believed...

BANGKOK, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Thailand's flag carrier Thai Airways struggled to resume regular services on Tuesday following heavy rain, though the government said floodwater in ​the capital Bangkok was expected to recede within three ‌days if no more r...

By Andrew Goudsward WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A second US Justice Department lawyer working on a criminal probe into whether U.S. President Donald Trump's rights were violated ​in previous investigations into the president has resigned ‌from the ...

By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Sept 28 (Reuters) - A group of 15 states and a Texas county on Monday sued the US Federal Aviation Administration over an environmental review of planned commercial drone package ​delivery rules. The states - including N...

By Dominique Patton PARIS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Global beauty brand L'Oreal Paris staged a star-studded runway show in the ​French capital on Monday, with pop ‌icon Celine Dion making a guest appearance to close out the evening. The event held at the st...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Pennsylvania's measles outbreak continued to worsen, with 68 new infections reported since Wednesday last week, bringing the ​total to 903 on Monday, health ‌department data showed, as the state grapples with the worst measles resur...

By Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD, Sept 29 (Reuters) - US forces are set to pull out from their last bases in Iraq by Wednesday, a departure celebrated as a victory by Iran and its allies who now have deep influence in the country where 4,500 Americans died dur...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Myanmar's military-backed government has arrested 21 people it said had transferred money to an online fundraising platform linked to the ​opposition National Unity Government (NUG), the state-run Global New ‌Light of Myanmar newspa...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Vietnam police have arrested three people, including a Norwegian citizen and an Australian national of Vietnamese origin, accusing them of terrorism, in an operation that a pro-democracy group says was ​conducted in Cambodia. The th...

By Hasnoor Hussain, Rozanna Latiff and Jeremy Seng LUMUT, Malaysia, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Malaysia began the process of deporting around 1,500 Myanmar nationals on Tuesday as part of a refugee repatriation programme, defying objections from the United Na...

OSLO, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Norway is increasing its support for humanitarian efforts to help deported ​Ukrainian children, detained civilians and ‌prisoners of war through UNICEF and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the Nordic countr...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers completed their regular season with a league-best 103 wins. They beat the Cardinals, 6-4. The team ended the season on a 5-game winning streak. They're off until Saturday, when they'll host either the Cubs or the Padres in the divisional round of the playoffs. On Sunday Jacob Misiorow...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Brewers beat the Cardinals, 3-2, on Saturday night. It was their 102nd win of the season. Brice Turang hit a two-run home run in the 5th. Kyle Harrison (11-5) worked four innings. He allowed no runs and struck out four. The Cardinals had an early 2-run lead on Slec Burleson's home run. The Br...

STATE COLLEGE, PA (WSAU) - Trailing 17-0, Wisconsin rallied in the 4th quarter to beat Penn State, 24-20. The Badgers rallied with two late touchdowns, taking the lead for good when Colton Joseph threw a 72-yard touchdown pass to Jacob Harris. Penn State had a final chance to win the game, when quarterback Rocco Becht ...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- Milwaukee picked up win #101 thanks to a big day from Brice Turang and David Hamilton, who combined for five hits in an 8-4 victory over St. Louis. Turang went 5-for-3 with three RBI, including an RBI double in the first inning to open the scoring. Hamilton went 2-for-3 with a double and a run s...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - Marshfield went on the road and edged Wausau-West, 26-21. The Warriors have lost two straight. In other week six games: SPASH 41 - Eau Claire North 21 Hudson 43 - D.C. Everest 19 Stratford 31 - Colby 25 Wausau East 19 - Mosinee 0 Wisconsin Rapids 39 - Eau Claire Memorial 25 Stanley Boyd 33 - Auburn...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Novak Djokovic said he was encouraged by the way his body was responding ahead of the China Open as the 24-times Grand Slam champion looks to regain momentum at ​a happy hunting ground after recent fitness concerns. Djokovic will re...

By Field Level Media Sep 29 (Field Level Media) - Bronny James is looking forward to playing against his dad, LeBron James, on Christmas Day, but until then, he will focus on improving his ​game and emerging from his legendary father's shadow. On Oct. ...

By Field Level Media Sep 29 (Field Level Media) - The St. Louis Blues announced Monday that defenseman Logan Mailloux will miss at least the first eight ​weeks of the season after needing hand surgery. The ‌23-year-old Mailloux, expected to team up wit...

By Field Level Media Sep 29 (Field Level Media) - Yankees slugger Aaron Judge, who missed the last 10 games of the regular season, took batting practice on Monday and hopes to play ​Tuesday when New York opens the playoffs. Ahead of the Yankees' ‌Ameri...

By Field Level Media Sep 29 (Field Level Media) - Quincy Porter's season is ​over before it began, ‌as the Notre Dame wide receiver will have surgery to address a knee injury. Porter ‌transferred ​from Ohio ⁠State but has ⁠not played in 2026 due to lin...

BEIJING, Sept 29 (Reuters) - China's factory activity likely swung back to growth in September after two months of contraction, a Reuters poll showed on Tuesday, though a cabinet meeting on Monday underscored the need for further policy support to shor...

SYDNEY, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Australia's central bank raised its cash rate to a ​15-year high of 4.60% ‌on Tuesday in its fourth hike of the year, saying inflation was too high and ‌it ​was prepared ⁠to hike further ⁠if needed. Wrapping up its September...

By Sophie Kiderlin and Dhara Ranasinghe LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The fortunes of the euro, trading not far off its lowest levels of the year against the dollar, are in the grip of a global energy shock and growing political risk in Europe. The euro...

By Dhara Ranasinghe, Sophie Kiderlin and Naomi Rovnick LONDON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - The world's biggest sovereign bond markets are heading for their worst month in years as soaring energy costs fan inflation and the AI boom lifts economic growth, leavi...

A look at the day ahead in European and global markets from Tom Westbrook Anthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy and that public ​investors will pay to underwrite it. The prospectus of the ‌US AI company, seen by Re...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Novo Nordisk will pay $300 million upfront to Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals for the rights to an experimental GLP-1 pill, the ​Chinese drugmaker said on Tuesday. The deal gains ‌Novo a further potential revenue stream in the boomi...

(Corrects the first name of BPJS Kesehatan official to Prihati, not Priharti, in second ​bullet) JAKARTA, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Indonesia's ‌government will inject 20 trillion rupiah ($1.11 billion) into health insurer BPJS Kesehatan to help the state ag...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Australian biotechnology firm CSL said on Tuesday it is collaborating with Amazon's cloud arm to ​harness AI and cloud technology ‌across its research and clinical development pipeline. Here are some more details: • The partnership ...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - HUTCHMED (China) said on Tuesday that Anglo-Swedish drugmaker AstraZeneca had ​applied to the ‌US Food and Drug Administration for approval of the ORPATHYS-TAGRISSO combination to treat patients with ‌advanced ​lung cancer. ORPATHYS...

By Roshan Thomas and Rajasik Mukherjee Sept 29 (Reuters) - Australian hearing implant maker Cochlear said on Tuesday it had been served with ​a shareholder class action in Victoria's ‌Supreme Court over its fiscal 2026 underlying net profit forecast, a...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - NASA chief Jared Isaacman said ​on Monday ‌that parts of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will be ‌redesigned ​ahead ⁠of a crewed ⁠flight in 2028, and he added in a ​briefing that Starliner ⁠will fly ⁠up to ​five crewed missions ​to th...

By Joey Roulette and Steve Nesius STARBASE, Texas, Sept 28 (Reuters) - SpaceX's giant Starship rocket reached orbit for the first time on Monday and deployed new Starlink satellites, achieving milestones in its 14th test flight despite an engine failur...

By Joey Roulette STARBASE, Texas, Sept 28 (Reuters) - - SpaceX's next-generation Starship rocket lifted off from Texas on Monday for its debut flight ​to orbit and first operational release ‌of satellites, marking its 14th launch ahead of a routine ser...

Sept 28 (Reuters) - Satellite maker Astro Digital said on Monday it had agreed to go public through a ​merger with blank-check company Proem ‌Acquisition Corp I, in a deal valuing the company at about $587 million. Here are some details: • Early-stage ...

By Leo Marchandon Sept 28 (Reuters) - OVHcloud and CGI have won a 30-month European Space Agency contract to build computing infrastructure to store and ​process Europe's Earth observation satellite data, the ‌companies said on Monday. The award reflec...

By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google has challenged two EU orders to help AI rivals such as OpenAI access its services and search engine competitors ​to access its search data, saying these would ‌undermine privacy safeguards...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - Australian electronics components maker Codan on Tuesday forecast a sharp rise in first-half profit and higher revenue for its communications division, sending its shares ​to a record high. The company now expects group ‌net profit ...

HONG KONG, Sept 29 (Reuters) - Chinese automation equipment maker RoboTechnik Intelligent Technology fell as much as 8.5% in its Hong Kong ​trading debut on Tuesday, after raising ‌HK$5.18 billion ($660.35 million) in its share sale. The stock dropped ...

Sept 29 (Reuters) - OpenAI said on Tuesday ​that its ‌AI models accessed Australian government websites ‌and ​systems ⁠without authorisation during ⁠internal training and evaluation exercises in June. The ​company said the ⁠activity ⁠involved websites ...

SEOUL, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A Samsung Electronics executive said on ​Tuesday that high-bandwidth ‌memory (HBM) is expected to account for nearly 30% of Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) ‌chipmakers' ​total wafer ⁠capacity next year, ⁠up from about 20%...

By Helen Reid PARIS, Sept 28 (Reuters) - Maxhosa Africa creative director Laduma Ngxokolo unveiled a collection that celebrated pan-Africanism on Monday, as his label became the first South African brand to stage a full ​runway show on the official Par...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Sept 27 (Reuters) - Taylor Swift's showgirl-inspired "The Fate of Ophelia" claimed the most prestigious trophy at MTV's annual Video Music Awards on Sunday, and the singer dedicated the honor to the late country music lege...

By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES, Sept 25 (Reuters) - A woman who accused musician Jay-Z of rape in a 2024 lawsuit has recanted her claim and said she never met the billionaire rapper. The ​woman, who was identified as Jane Doe in court papers, had ‌accuse...

By Arpan Chaturvedi NEW DELHI, Sept 25 (Reuters) - India's Zee Entertainment has asked the Delhi High Court to initiate contempt proceedings against Reliance-Disney joint venture JioStar, alleging it continued to use copyrighted content ​despite a cou...

By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - U2 marked 50 years as a band on Friday by returning to the school where they started playing together as teenagers and delighted current students with a ​concert featuring hits such as 'With Or Without You'...