MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – Lincoln County supervisors will have to find an extra $500,000 to satisfy the state historical society as they move forward with a courthouse reconstruction project.
Interim Administrative Coordinator Tim Meehan says the county will have to add extra floor space to the courthouse, as well as ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A town of Maine babysitter who violated the trust of parents when she left children home alone twice last spring will spend 7 months in jail.
“Anybody serving in the child care business needs to know that there is zero tolerance for anything remotely related to what ...More
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) - A Merrill school board committee has approved a plan to start teaching financial literacy courses not only at the high school, but all through the curriculum.
Curriculum director Carol Whitt-Stark says the plan is not just to give high school students a simple course in balancing their ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Six people from central Wisconsin will help find the next chancellor for the UW Extension and Colleges.
UW System President Kevin Reilly appointed the 23-member search committee today.
The panel includes UW-Marathon County biology professor Lou Pech and academic advisor Libby Heidmann and Marathon County diversity affairs ...More
WUAPACA, Wis (WSAU) We could find out in June whether animal mistreatment charges will be re-instated against three Waupaca County men accused of killing deer with their snowmobiles. Rory-and-Robby Kuenzi and Nicholas Hermes were charged with both criminal mistreatment and hunting violations. But two circuit judges dropped the felony counts ...More
MADISON (WSAU) A Prescott High School senior will return to Madison this week, to see if he can get a bill moving that would punish schools which don’t drop their Indian mascots and nick-names.
The bill appears to be stuck in the Senate’s Education Committee, after it passed ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) The early spring has resulted in at least two motorcycle deaths in Wisconsin. The first was near Beloit last week. And the second happened during the weekend in Taylor County. A 37-year-old Withee man was found unresponsive Saturday night on a road in the town of Pershing. A ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) Greenheck Fan is announcing a major expansion in Mexico.
The Schofield-based company says it will double the size of one of its plants in Mexico to manufacture industrial fans and ventilators. The company says it's making the move so it can sell more products duty-free in Central ...More
STEVENS POINT, Wis. (WSAU) – U-W Stevens Point will change student loan programs this summer in a move that will require most students to sign new paperwork.
The university will switch from the Federal Family Education Loan Program (FFEL) to the William D. Ford Federal Direct Student Loan Program beginning June ...More
MERRILL, Wis. (WSAU) – Merrill high school students may soon be required to take classes on managing their money.
School board members will be meeting this morning to go over the Academic Requirements for Graduation. Notes from the last meeting of the Policy Committee show they'll likely recommend that students ...More