1+ day, 47+ min ago   (119+ words) Hop on the bus and take a ride into the county and through history. The Friends of Wausau Historic Landmarks will host their third annual Tour de Marathon County on Sept. 26 This year, the tour will head west into the…...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (529+ words) Tariffs have cost Wisconsin an estimated $5.5 billion since January 2025, the 19th-highest total in the country, according to a report by the National Taxpayers Union Foundation. That amounts to about $2,179 per Wisconsin household, the report says. The import category most affected…...

21+ hour, 8+ min ago   (857+ words) Marathon County supervisors meet Thursday to vote on first-in-Wisconsin manure spreading rules, consent for up to $10 million in bonds for a Weston hotel, a new policy governing who may accept donations on the county’s behalf, and $302,119 in aid for town…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (845+ words) Seven farms across Wisconsin filed for bankruptcy in the first eight months of 2026. Filings have come in at a slower pace than 2025 but are still on an overall upward trend since the COVID-19 pandemic ended. By this same time in…...

22+ hour, 17+ min ago   (168+ words) The Never Forgotten Honor Flight organization based in Wausau will fly 93 veterans, 85 Vietnam and 8 Korea era veterans from central and northern Wisconsin to Washington, D.C., to see the memorials that honor their service on Sept. 21. It’s the organization’s 57th flight since the…...

22+ hour, 27+ min ago   (560+ words) WAUSAU — Marathon County Sheriff Chad Billeb intends to keep his 10 Flock cameras, he said Tuesday, as more than a dozen Wisconsin agencies cover, cancel or tear theirs down. “I intend to continue our contract with Flock,” Billeb wrote in an…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (385+ words) On Sept. 15, 1963, four Black girls were killed when a bomb went off during Sunday services at the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. (Three Ku Klux Klansmen were eventually convicted for their roles in the blast.) In 1835, Charles Darwin reached…...

23+ hour, 47+ min ago   (411+ words) Day after day, Wisconsin keeps breaking its all-time diesel gas price record. What started as a new all-time record Friday, Sept. 11 at $5.89 per gallon of diesel has now reached $6.11 per gallon on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Each day in between set a…...

1+ day, 17+ min ago   (798+ words) Metro Ride should leave its crowded, flood-prone Plumer Street bus garage and build a new facility on the Marathon County Highway Department property on West Street, according to a draft study going before the Wausau Transit Commission on Thursday. The…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (290+ words) RIB MOUNTAIN – Raising Cane’s announced an opening date for its new Rib Mountain location. Raising Cane’s will open Oct. 5 at 226422 Rib Mountain Drive. The Rib Mountain location will include a double-lane drive-through and will be open from 10 a.m. to…...