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Expect high water levels and currents to remain on Wisconsin River, say...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) - Officials at the company in charge of coordinating the Wisconsin River's water levels are working hard to keep up with the recent rains.Wisconsin Valley Improvement Company...
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Shawano woman missing since last week
SHAWANO, Wis. (WSAU) -- A Shawano woman is still missing, and authorities need your help finding her. She’s 32-year-old Heather Szekeres. She has brown eyes and long brown hair. Szekeres was last seen...
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Senator Tiffany likes what budget does for northwoods
RHINELANDER, Wis. (WXPR) -- State Senator Tom Tiffany says the biennial budget that passed the legislature last week has some positives for northern Wisconsin. The Senate approved the Assembly-passed...
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Mother of man charged in jail attack arrested
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) -- First a man goes to jail for attacking two Marathon County corrections officers. Now his mother is charged with crimes.20-year-old Fredrick Morris is the man charged with...
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What to wear? Anything is better than nothing!
WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. (WSAU) -- Losing your shorts can cost you. Literally.37-year-old Tammy M.Ladwig was ordered by the court to pay $586 dollars in fines, and she must take her prescriptions and...
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Dept. of Justice preparing anti-heroin campaign
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) -- Wisconsin’s Department of Justice is preparing an educational campaign to combat heroin use. Attorney General J.B Van Hollen says part of that campaign includes a total of...
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Former Wausau nightclub demolished
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) -- What used to be a night club is now an empty lot. IC Willy’s old building at Grand Avenue and Kent Street is gone.IC Willy’s was closed after the City of Wausau chose not to...
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Stevens Point and Portage County dispatchers now in same room
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) -- The process of combining the Portage County and City of Stevens Point emergency dispatch centers had a small delay Monday. Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Kontos says...
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Worker charged with mini-mart embezzlement
SARATOGA, Wis (WSAU) An employee at the Mini Mart in Saratoga is accused of embezzling more than $30,000. 33-year-old Sanya Benal of Wisconsin Rapids had been under investigation for several months,...
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Driver causing fatal crash claims medical issues, remembers nothing
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) -- It will take about two weeks to get results from blood tests on the man who drove his sport utility vehicle into a car and truck in Wausau Monday. Wausau Police Chief Jeffrey...
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Wausau Paper and Experia close sale on Mosinee and Rhinelander mills
MOSINEE, Wis. (WSAU) -- The deal is done. Wausau Paper confirmed today that they have closed on the sale of their Mosinee and Rhinelander mills to Experia Specialty Solutions LLC, which is the new...
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Motorcyclist dies after crash near Park Falls
PARK FALLS, Wis. (WXPR) -- A motorcyclist has died in a Price county traffic mishap.Sheriff Brian Schmidt reports the crash happened early Monday afternoon on County Road "E" in the town of Lake. The...
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Help the Woodson through the grape vine
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) - The Marathon County Historical Society is hoping to preserve a piece of growing history by selling cuttings of a very old grapevine.It's the grapevine that grows along the pergola...
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Merrill woman facing additional meth charges
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) -- A Merrill woman will face the judge for additional drug charges Thursday afternoon.55-year-old Julie Chartier is scheduled to make an initial appearance in Lincoln County,...
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Summer camp for art students underway at UWSP
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) -- Not all summer camps involve tents, canoes, lakes, and campfires. Camp COFAC is a week-long summer camp at the UW Stevens Point campus for high school aged students...
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Intensive anti-drug effort continues at Lac du Flambeau
LAC DU FLAMBEAU, Wis. (WSAU) -- Lac du Flambeau police have teamed up with several law enforcement agencies to arrest twenty people on drug charges.The early morning raids involved forty officers from...
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Municipalities say "what if" tornadoes strike here like Oklahoma
MARSHFIELD, WI (WSAU) -- How would cities in Central Wisconsin fare if they faced a catastrophic emergency like the recent Oklahoma twisters? Dennis Tweedale CEO of the League of Wisconsin...
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Marshfield welcomes Fur Takers of America
MARSHFIELD, Wis. (WSAU) -- Marshfield welcomes the “Fur Takers of America National Convention and Rendezvous” for a four-day run in Marshfield starting on Thursday. Marshfield’s Convention and...
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Wausau State Representative supports federal effort for immigration reform
MADISON, Wis. (WSAU) -- Some Wisconsin state Legislators are urging federal lawmakers to keep working on resolving the immigration issues.One of them is State Representative Mandy Wright of Wausau,...
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Storm brings hail, heavy rain
UNDATED (WSAU) Many areas north of Wausau reported heavy rain and some hail damage from thunderstorms last night.In Merrill hail between an-inch and a half-inch fell yesterday -- big enough to cause...
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