The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development has released monthly employment and unemployment statistics for October. Given figures not seasonally adjusted, the Sheboygan Metropolitan Statistical Area experienced a monthly gain of 200 in its work force for a total of 64,100 employed in October, representing 500 mo...

Though conflict might seem far-removed from one's home or neighborhood, Samaritan's purse is encouraging donations from those enjoying relative safety and peace in order that they might provide a bit of much-needed relief from those others suffering from war, poverty, disease and disaster. Since 1993, the international...

Authorities have issued a Green Alert for a missing Manitowoc veteran whose vehicle was found in Lake Michigan. 43-year-old Jason R. Neumann was reported missing on Tuesday after it's suspected he disappeared sometime on Monday. His vehicle was found later Tuesday in shallow waters offshore near the Village of Clevela...

We all knew it couldn't last forever, and now the death knell is sounding for our extended mild autumn. Its demise comes as Old Man Winter settles in with the promise of a messy dose of slippery snow. The National Weather Service has issued a Winter Weather Advisory for all of eastern Wisconsin from Door County to the...

With Thanksgiving coming up next Thursday, the Sheboygan DPW wants you to be aware of an altered collection schedule. There are no changes until Thursday when there won't be any collection. You can put your turkey bones and other trash out - along with recycling - on Friday when the Thursday route will be collected. ...

By Rory Carroll LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - McLaren's Lando Norris said he was probably not ready to challenge Max Verstappen for the Formula One title this season and accepted that his hopes were effectively over after a demoralising defeat in Brazil ea...

(Reuters) - Triple Olympic swimming champion Adam Peaty said he is not ready to make a decision about competing at the 2028 Los Angeles Games after the Briton was left frustrated by illness and some of the team's decision-making in Paris. Peaty mis...

By Rory Carroll LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Formula One drivers were surprised by the sudden departure of race director Niels Wittich and are "a bit fed up" with the leadership of the governing FIA, Mercedes' George Russell said on Wednesday. The drivers...

Giannis Antetokounmpo scored 25 of his 41 points in the third quarter and the Milwaukee Bucks pulled away in the final minutes to beat the visiting Chicago Bulls 122-106 on Wednesday. Brook Lopez had 21 points and Damian Lillard added 20 points and 10...

Grant Nelson scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half and finished with eight rebounds and four blocked shots to help No. 8 Alabama cruise to a 100-87 victory over No. 25 Illinois on Wednesday night at Birmingham, Ala. Aden Holloway added 18 point...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The Democrat leader in the Wisconsin Assembly will return to her post. Racine Representative Greta Neubauer was unanimously elected to another term as Assembly Minority Leader Tuesday. Neubauer has led Assembly Democrats since 2021. The Assembly Democratic Caucus gained 10 seats in the fall el...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- The agency in charge of monitoring Wisconsin lawyers accuses a former State Supreme Court justice of multiple ethics violations. Political watchdog group, LawForward, filed that complaint with The Office of Lawyer Regulation against Mike Gableman for his part in an investigation of the 2020 pr...

MILWAUKEE, WI (WTAQ-WRN) -- An attorney who defended Jeffrey Damher has died. Gerald Boyle defended Milwaukee's infamous serial killer at his 1992 trial. His daughter Bridget posted to social media on Tuesday that her father died Sunday at age 88, writing that Boyle "dedicated his life to the relentless pursuit of...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- Wisconsin bear hunters saw a record harvest this fall with more than 4,000 bears taken. The Wisconsin DNR preliminary reports say 4,285 were harvested during the five-week season, a rebound from the below-average harvest of 2,922 bears taken during last fall's bear season. "Several factors likely le...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction published school and district accountability report cards for the 2023-24 school year Tuesday. The DPI publishes school and district report cards annually, as required by Wis. Stat. 115.385. Report cards include data for multiple school years across four pri...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...

By William James, Simon Jessop and Gloria Dickie BAKU (Reuters) -The United Nations climate body published on Thursday fresh options for the COP29 summit's primary goal of agreeing how much money richer countries should provide poorer ones to help them...

By Alexandra Alper WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Investment banker Howard Lutnick's exposure to China came into sharp relief on Wednesday, after Republican President-elect Donald Trump tapped him to lead the agencies that have become the tip of the spear ...

By Daniel Trotta (Reuters) - A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2 million on Wednesday to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, Sotheby's said, furthering the universal conversation about ...

By Erwin Seba HOUSTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said on Wednesday that 27,000 pounds (13.5 tons) of deadly hydrogen sulfide gas was released at Pemex's Deer Park, Texas, refinery on Oct. 10, causing the deaths of two contract...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Thursday that a new U.S. ballistic missile defence base in northern Poland will lead to an increase in the overall level of nuclear danger and was on a Russian targeting list for potential destru...

(Removes extraneous words in headline) BELGRADE (Reuters) - The High Prosecutors Office in the Serbian city of Novi Sad said on Thursday that 11 people were arrested in connection with the collapse of a railway station roof earlier this month that ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia is ready to consider any "realistic" peace initiative on the conflict in Ukraine which takes into account Russia's own interests and the situation on the ground, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on...

By Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) - Taiwan is not involved in military assistance for Ukraine as it is "too sensitive" but would like to establish a representative office in the country, Taiwan Deputy Foreign Minister Francois Wu said. Taiwan has off...

By Alasdair Pal and Panarat Thepgumpanat SYDNEY/BANGKOK (Reuters) - An Australian teenager died on Thursday after drinking alcohol contaminated with methanol in Laos, Thai police and Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, the fourth forei...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novartis' CEO said on Thursday that the delayed launch of blood-cancer drug pelabresib from the takeover of Morphosys could be achieved in 2027 or later, but any approval would depend on further safety data. "It will take us a...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Novartis on Thursday raised its medium-term sales guidance, predicting 6% annual growth through 2028, driven by strong momentum of launched drugs and the prospect of upcoming market introductions. The Swiss drugmaker was previ...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

(Reuters) -The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Jazz Pharmaceuticals' drug for the treatment of a type of biliary tract cancer, the company said on Wednesday. The drug zanidatamab-hrii, sold under the brand name Ziihera, is approved for use i...

By Stephanie Kelly and Nathan Layne (Reuters) - U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will likely choose Johns Hopkins surgeon and writer Martin Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wedne...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's Neuralink said on Wednesday it has received approval to launch its first clinical trial in Canada for a device designed to give paralysed individuals the ability to use digital devices simply by thinking. The brain chip star...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists unveiled on Wednesday the first blueprint of human skeletal development as they make progress toward the goal of completing a biological atlas of every cell type in the body to better understand huma...

By David Stanway SINGAPORE (Reuters) - An unusual cluster of typhoons in the West Pacific and a series of powerful hurricanes in the Atlantic are raising questions about the impact that climate change is having on tropical storms across the globe. ...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists working in an international collaboration have tracked how the structure of the cosmos has grown over the past 11 billion years, providing the most precise test to date of how gravity behaves at very...

(Reuters) - Elon Musk's SpaceX launched its sixth Starship test flight to space on Tuesday from Texas, eyeing an array of improvements on the rocket as U.S. President-elect Donald Trump watched in person. The roughly 400-foot-tall (122-meter-tall) ...

SEOUL (Reuters) - SK Square, the holding company of SK Hynix, a maker of artificial intelligence chips, on Thursday announced a plan to buy back shares and nominate an independent director as part of efforts to boost shareholder value. The plan cam...

(Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors on Wednesday argued to a judge that Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data, and search results with rivals, and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on online search. The proposals are wide-rangin...

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean police said on Thursday an investigation confirmed that hackers linked to North Korea's military intelligence agency were responsible for an Ethereum cryptocurrency heist in 2019, worth 58 billion won ($41.5 million) ...

By Fanny Potkin (Reuters) - China's Huawei plans to start mass-producing its most advanced artificial intelligence chip in the first quarter of 2025, even as it struggles to make enough chips due to U.S. restrictions, said two people familiar with ...

By Jody Godoy (Reuters) - Alphabet's Google must sell its Chrome browser, share data and search results with competitors and take a range of other measures to end its monopoly on searching the internet, U.S. prosecutors argued to a judge on Wednesd...

By Minwoo Park and Daewoung Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - K-pop music may be South Korea's buzziest export but the industry needlessly creates mountains of plastic in its home market by churning out CDs that most fans don't even listen to, critics say. Wha...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Cirque du Soleil will kick off its first permanent European show next year in Berlin's central Potsdamer Platz, the Canadian circus company announced on Wednesday, promising a production that would push the boundaries of the imag...

(Reuters) -Comcast plans to divest the bulk of its once-coveted NBCUniversal cable TV assets, including MSNBC and CNBC, as the rising dominance of streaming platforms relegates legacy media businesses to the cutting room floor. Shares of the company r...

By Malgorzata Wojtunik TORUN, Poland (Reuters) - Alec Baldwin's Western "Rust" premiered at a low-key Polish film festival on Wednesday, three years after cinematographer Halyna Hutchins died when Baldwin pointed a gun at her, in Hollywood's first ...

By Ben Makori AMERSHAM, England (Reuters) - The former members of boy band "One Direction" were among the mourners at the funeral of their band mate Liam Payne on Wednesday, just over a month after he died aged 31. Harry Styles, Zayn Malik, Niall H...