STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) – Stevens Point authorities will release more details Thursday morning about a series of suspicious fires in the city over the last year-and-a-half, including the most recent one early Tuesday.
The fires include house and garage fires that were intentionally set by suspects whom police are trying ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Local volunteers are $100,000 shy of their goal to raise $1 million to improve Wausau’s City Square.
The SquareUp committee has raised $900,000 dollars as of yesterday, said volunteer Phil Valitchka. The fundraising campaign runs through June.
The committee also announced that three city ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Marathon County hunters packed into John Muir middle school's lecture hall last night looking for answers from the DNR in their annual deer management meetings.
Biologist Courtney Schaeffer told the crowd that harvest numbers were down across the state, but that was in line with what ...More
RIB MOUNTAIN, Wis. (WSAU) – NASCAR driver Scott Wimmer and his father have gotten approval for a series of upgrades to State Park Speedway ahead of the summer racing season.
Ron Wimmer made the pitch to Rib Mountain officials last night at the plan commission. On the table for improvements will ...More
AMHERST, Wis. (WSAU) – A 17-year-old Amherst High School student is under arrest for e-mailing verbal threats to school officials today from a private computer.
The Portage County sheriff’s department tracked the threats to the teen’s computer and arrested the student.
Authorities planned to hold the teen pending a ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) At least five Wisconsin cities are now interested in hosting an experiment by Google that could speed up local Internet service by up to 100 times.
Madison and Superior were the first in Wisconsin to apply to host Google Fiber – a test fiber-optic network that would carry the ...More
TOWN OF RUSSELL, Wis. (WSAU) – A fire that started in an attached garage quickly spread to a home in the town of Russell late last night, causing heavy fire, smoke and water damage.
Two people were at home at the time and safely escaped. The family pets also got out ...More
NEILLSVILLE, Wis (WSAU) A central Wisconsin judge says an Amish farmer does not have to register his livestock premise with the state, as required by a five-year-old law. Emanuel Miller Junior of Loyal said the law violates his religious beliefs. And in a ruling yesterday, Clark County Circuit Judge Jon ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) The D-N-R holds two hearings today on Wisconsin's deer population and last season's deer hunt.
One meeting will be in Wausau from 5 to 7pm at John Muir Middle School. A second meeting will be in Stevens Point from 6 to 8pm at the Portage County ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis (WSAU) The CenterPoint Marketplace Mall in downtown Stevens Point will be sold at auction on May 3rd. Dial Properties, the mall's owner, has fallen behind on its payments. The bank, Valley Bank of Illinois, took over management of the property last summer and announced the start ...More
