WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- While candidates for State Superintendent of DPI and Supreme Court sweat out close races Tuesday night, several local officials will be relaxed as the results come in because they're running unopposed. That includes a pair of Mayors and some City Council and School Board elections. In Schofield, lo...

STEVENS POINT, WI (WSAU) -- The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point has been gifted $2 million to create scholarship funds for students in STEM and business-related fields. The donation comes from Jeffrey and Sally (Class of 1961) Fiddler to provide scholarships valued at $2,000 or $4,000 for students majoring in sc...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) -- The University of Wisconsin is staying in-house for the next leader of the UW Milwaukee campus, naming current UWSP Chancellor Thomas Gibson to the post. The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents unanimously approved Gibson's appointment on Monday, following a recommendation made by a selecti...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) -- The Marathon County Health Department and Solid Waste Department are raising awareness for the proper disposal of vape devices. Public Health Educator Courtney Tvedten says the devices come with two major issues- chemicals and fire hazards. "The E Liquid or any [liquid] left in them can contam...

WAUSAU, WI (WSAI) - A new poll from the Trafalgar Group and InsiderAdvantage has Wisconsin's Supreme Court race at a statistical tie as voters prepare to head to the polls to vote in less than 24 hours. According to the poll, which surveyed 1083 likely voters, Judge Crawford leads former state Attorney General Brad Sch...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- As expected, Governor Tony Evers has vetoed a bill dealing with testing standards in Wisconsin's K-12 schools. The Republican authored legislation would have reset state report card standards to levels set in the 2019-20 school year, align grades 3-8 with national standards, and restore high s...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Even before President Donald Trump put pen to paper, word of his plans to slash the Department of Education has sparked debate in Wisconsin. Now that it's official, state leaders are weighing in on the move. Thursday's executive order comes after the agency initiated a nearly 50% cut to its ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- American citizens pay into it every paycheck and every year, it pays out billions of dollars in retirement benefits and disability insurance to millions: social security. But many say it's not an easy system to navigate. "Social security, disability claims process is already bewilderin...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Assembly's Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency Committee, or GOAT for short, is beginning its work in Madison. "We're learning. We don't always know what the next rock, what's under the next rock and what we're going to find," said committee member S...

(WTAQ-WLUK) - Cuts to a program which helps pay for new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations could be coming. District 8 Rep. Tony Wied wants to repeal the 'National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure' (NEVI) federal program. He's supporting legislation called the 'Unplug EV Charging Stations Program Act.' Wied said to...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week's devastating quake, while in Bangkok rescuers pressed on searching for life under the rubble of a collap...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Monday the EPA was closing a one-room museum at the agency's headquarters in Washington which he said cost $4 million to build and $600,000 pe...

By Kanishka Singh WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Cornell University student who participated in pro-Palestinian protests and was asked to surrender by U.S. immigration officials said on Monday he was leaving the United States, citing fear of detention an...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

By Jeff Mason, Gram Slattery and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case closed, even as the breach provoked bipartisan cr...

BANGKOK (Reuters) -Aid groups arriving in the worst-hit areas of Myanmar said there was an urgent need for shelter, food and water after last week's devastating quake, while in Bangkok rescuers pressed on searching for life under the rubble of a collap...

By Leika Kihara TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will continue to push strongly for the United States to exempt the country from auto tariffs, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Tuesday. In a news conference, Ishiba also said the government will take measures...

(Reuters) - The U.S. increase in duties on goods from China is unfounded, is damaging global markets and is damaging Washington's reputation, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said in remarks published on Tuesday. The tariffs will not help the Unite...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's Constitutional Court, which is reviewing President Yoon Suk Yeol's impeachment, will announce its decision on whether to remove him from office permanently or reinstate him on April 4, the court said in a statement on Tue...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers fell to the Kansas City Royals on Monday afternoon, 11-1, to become the first Brewers team since 2015 to begin the season 0-4. The Brewers' offense struggled to get going as Jackson Chourio was the only Brewer to record an RBI on Monday, as he went 1-4 with three more strike...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) - The Milwaukee Brewers pitching rotation will be down yet another arm as starting pitcher Aaron Civale is expected to be placed on the injured list. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's Curt Hogg, Civale injured his hamstring during the Brewers' 12-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday afternoo...

GREEN BAY, WI (WSAU) - The Green Bay Packers aren't closing the door on one of their top defenders staying with the franchise for the 2025 season. According to GM Brian Gutekunst, who spoke to the media on Monday morning, cornerback Jaire Alexander may be staying with the Packers after all, saying, "We have some t...

MADISON, WI (WSAU) - One of the Badgers' key young players, who was expected to become a featured player in 2026, is reportedly entering the transfer portal. According to 247 Sports' Sam Kayser, former four-star recruit Daniel Freitag will enter the transfer portal after just one season with the Badgers. He appeared in...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WSAU) -- The Atlanta Hawks blew out the slumping Milwaukee Bucks 145-124 on Sunday night at Fiserv Forum. Very little defense was played by both teams for most of the game but a 17 point third quarter doomed the Bucks on this night. Trae Young had 19 assists for Atlanta to go with 19 points. Giannis led ...

The Boston Red Sox agreed to a six-year, $170 million contract extension, according to multiple media reports. The deal will reportedly begin in 2026 and includes an opt-out after 2030. Across four seasons, the lefty pitched in 104 games for the Chicag...

Katie Volynets needed less than an hour to complete a 6-0, 6-0 rout of Canadian qualifier Katherine Sebov on Monday in the first round of the Credit One Charleston (S.C.) Open. Volynets, a 23-year-old California native, put 87 percent of her first serv...

Tennessee women's basketball coach Kim Caldwell agreed to a one-year contract extension with the school on Monday following a successful debut season. The school announced the deal, which will keep Caldwell in Knoxville through March 31, 2030. "From ...

Ja'Kobi Gillespie and Rodney Rice, two starters for Maryland's Sweet 16 team, reportedly entered the transfer portal Monday in the wake of coach Kevin Willard bolting the program for Villanova. Both guards played a single season for the Terrapins; Gil...

Providence transfer Bryce Hopkins has committed to Big East rival St. John's, coach Rick Pitino confirmed Monday. "We are so excited to have Bryce Hopkins part of our family," Pitino tweeted Monday. "He epitomizes everything I love in a basketball pla...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australia's central bank on Tuesday left its cash rate steady as widely expected, saying it was still cautious about the outlook, although the risk is U.S. tariffs could be a drag on global growth. Wrapping up its April policy me...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The Reserve Bank of Australia on Tuesday left its cash rate unchanged at 4.10% following a two-day policy meeting. The following is a chronology of the Reserve Bank of Australia's interest rate moves since 1990. Each move is meas...

By Anjana Anil and Anushree Mukherjee (Reuters) - Gold prices hit a record peak on Tuesday, as concerns that U.S. President Donald Trump's reciprocal tariffs might fuel inflationary pressures and impede economic growth drove safe-haven demand. Spot...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Average resale home prices across 100 Chinese cities fell at a sharper month-on-month pace in March, a private survey showed on Tuesday, signalling persistent challenges in the property sector despite modest gains in new home pr...

By Summer Zhen HONG KONG (Reuters) - Jane Street, one of the world's largest quant trading firms and market makers, is planning a sharp increase in Hong Kong office space, two people familiar with the matter said. The New York-based firm is negotia...

By Luc Cohen -A U.S. appeals court on Monday denied a request by the Trump administration to pause a lower court's decision blocking President Donald Trump's ban on transgender people serving in the military. U.S. District Judge Benjamin Settle in Taco...

(Reuters) -Reproductive health provider Planned Parenthood said on Monday the Trump administration would cut federal family planning funding as of Tuesday, affecting birth control, cancer screenings and other services for low-income people. Planned Par...

By Dietrich Knauth NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Monday rejected Johnson & Johnson's $10 billion proposal to end lawsuits alleging that its baby powder and other talc products cause ovarian cancer, marking the third time the compa...

(Reuters) -The plan to cut 10,000 jobs at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was abruptly delayed amid growing backlash over its execution by Brad Smith, the Department of Government Efficiency lead at HHS, Politico reported on Monday, ci...

(Reuters) - Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald, formerly headed by the Trump administration's Secretary Of Commerce Howard Lutnick, called for the dismissal of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Kennedy, a well-known vaccine sk...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -After nine months in space, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams are readjusting to Earth life with dog walks and family time, while resuming work with Boeing to test the capsule that stranded them on t...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled befo...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin said on Monday it is targeting "late spring" for the second launch of its giant New Glenn rocket, as the U.S. FAA closed an investigation into the rocket's landing failure that followed an ...

ROME (Reuters) -Italy is pressing ahead with a plan to set up its own low-orbit satellite constellation, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Monday. The dual use constellation - for civil and military uses - will be made up of over 100 satelli...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration on Monday said it closed out a review into SpaceX's explosive Starship test flight in January, while another investigation into the rocket's subsequent testing explosi...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Lightmatter, a startup valued at $4.4 billion, on Monday released two pieces of technology aimed at speeding up the connections between artificial intelligence chips. Instead of moving information between...

By Jeff Mason, Gram Slattery and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration sought to put the scandal over its use of the Signal messaging app behind it on Monday, calling it case closed, even as the breach provoked bipartisan cr...

By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday was set to launch a crew of four private astronauts led by a crypto entrepreneur on a mission to orbit Earth from pole to pole, a novel trajectory in which no humans have traveled befo...

By Stephen Nellis SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - In his first remarks as Intel's new CEO, Lip-Bu Tan on Monday outlined a leaner version of the iconic American chipmaker in which he would work directly with engineers to develop new products based on fee...

(Reuters) - OpenAI said on Monday it would raise $40 billion in a new funding round led by SoftBank Group at a $300 billion valuation to advance AI research, expand computational infrastructure, and enhance its AI tools. Microsoft-backed OpenAI s...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Oscar winner and former Bond villain Rami Malek plays an unlikely action hero in the espionage thriller "The Amateur". The movie is based on Robert Littell's 1981 book and film of the same name. The 2025 remake s...

By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) -President Donald Trump on Monday planned to sign an executive order aimed at protecting fans from "exploitative ticket scalping" and reforming the U.S. live entertainment ticketing industry, according to a White H...

LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday met the creators of "Adolescence", the Netflix drama about a boy charged over the killing of a female classmate which has sparked a national conversation about the impact of social media o...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean actor Kim Soo-hyun on Monday denied allegations that he dated the actress Kim Sae-ron when she was underage, breaking down in tears as he said he could not "admit what is not true." Brands including Prada have cut tie...

By Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) -Hollywood stars Jason Momoa and Jack Black used humour and big performances to bring to life a corner of Minecraft, the best-selling video game of all time, in "A Minecraft Movie." Known for its blocky imagery, the 20...