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
MERRILL, Wis (WSAU) Plans to renovate the Lincoln County courthouse have hit a snag.
The county wants to enlarge the second floor but the state historical society put a condition on the project last month. They say the second-story expansion needs to be larger than first proposed, so it blends ...More
UNDATED (WSAU) The relatively short winter and the mild weather means maple sugar season is early this year. Sap is already flowing in parts of Wisconsin.
Some maple sugar farms began tapping their trees two weeks ago. Usually the season doesn't begin until mid- or late-March.
The typical maple ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – Wausau has finalized a compromise with the state transportation department over a controversial highway reconstruction project.
The City Council voted 10-2 Tuesday night to endorse the compromise that will keep two access ramps when the DOT rebuilds the Highway 51-U-K interchange in 2013.
The DOT’s favored ...More
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAU) – A 76 year old Korean War vet will be getting his Wausau High School Diploma some 60 years after leaving for basic training.
Ted Ulrich was a senior at then Wausau High School when he dropped out and went to basic training in Milwaukee. Ulrich was a ...More
