Problems with the nation's bridges have been in the news lately, especially after 68 bridges were identified by the National Transportation Safety Board for risk assessment. While Sheboygan's 8th Street Bridge wasn't among those, the State of Wisconsin doesn't let inspections lapse, with a thorough going-over every tw...

A New Holstein area child has lost their life in a fire. The Calumet County Sheriff's Office along with the State Fire Marshal's office is investigating how a fire started in a home on Honeymoon Hill Road near County Rd. T., about 3 miles north of the City of New Holstein. Crews performed life saving measures to the ...

Most people know that scams aren't unusual over the telephone or internet these days, but apparently many still aren't savvy enough to avoid falling victim to the increasingly shrewd criminals plying their trade. Manitowoc Police are reporting a dramatic increase in scamming there, and they detailed the lengths some p...

A Washington County Sheriff's Deputy appears to have landed on the wrong side of the law. Sheriff Martin Schulteis said that it was "with profound disappointment and a deep sense of anger" that he had to tell citizens of Washington County that one of his patrol deputies was accused of retail theft while on d...

Sheboygan's Above and Beyond Children's Museum has a new Director of Operations. Allie Tasche has been chosen to run operations at the museum she grew to enjoy as a child in the 1990's. Upon her appointment, Tasche said that she was "...excited and honored to build bridges across the community and make sure every...

By Lori Ewing (Reuters) - American figure skater Ilia Malinin was not even born when France's Surya Bonaly thumbed her nose at the International Skating Union's restrictive rules by famously performing a banned backflip at the 1998 Nagano Olympics....

BERLIN (Reuters) - Kuwait's Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, who was last year banned for 15 years from all positions within the International Olympic Committee over ethics breaches, is no longer an IOC member, the Olympic body said on Thursday. The...

The last-place Philadelphia Flyers fired head coach John Tortorella on Thursday with nine games remaining in his third season with the club. "Today I made the very difficult decision to move on from John as our head coach," general manager Daniel Brie...

The Minnesota Twins placed third baseman Royce Lewis and three others on the injured list prior to Thursday's Opening Day game at St. Louis. Lewis (left hamstring strain) and shortstop Brooks Lee (lumbar strain) landed on the 10-day IL and right-hande...

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The crocodiles that inhabit the Fitzroy River appear not to be too much of an issue but the water current could scupper plans to stage the rowing at the 2032 Olympics in Rockhampton, some 600 kilometres north of Brisbane. The pro...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) - Even before President Donald Trump put pen to paper, word of his plans to slash the Department of Education has sparked debate in Wisconsin. Now that it's official, state leaders are weighing in on the move. Thursday's executive order comes after the agency initiated a nearly 50% cut to its ...

GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- American citizens pay into it every paycheck and every year, it pays out billions of dollars in retirement benefits and disability insurance to millions: social security. But many say it's not an easy system to navigate. "Social security, disability claims process is already bewilderin...

MADISON, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) -- The Wisconsin Assembly's Government Operations, Accountability and Transparency Committee, or GOAT for short, is beginning its work in Madison. "We're learning. We don't always know what the next rock, what's under the next rock and what we're going to find," said committee member S...

(WTAQ-WLUK) - Cuts to a program which helps pay for new electric vehicle (EV) charging stations could be coming. District 8 Rep. Tony Wied wants to repeal the 'National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure' (NEVI) federal program. He's supporting legislation called the 'Unplug EV Charging Stations Program Act.' Wied said to...

(WTAQ-WLUK) -- With less than four weeks to go before the election, voters were more tuned in to the state Supreme Court race than the state superintendent of public instruction race, a poll found. The latest Marquette University Law School poll found that majorities of Wisconsin voters had not heard enough about most ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. senators on Thursday criticized the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to act for years to address helicopters in "dangerous proximity" to commercial airplanes near Reagan Washington National Airport. "Why did t...

(Reuters) - Some U.S. health regulators who review medical devices and tobacco products for safety and efficacy are struggling to meet deadlines mandated by Congress due to Trump administration layoffs, three scientists working on the projects told...

LONDON (Reuters) -British climate protest group Just Stop Oil, whose high-profile stunts have included throwing soup at a Van Gogh painting and disrupting sporting and theatre events, said on Thursday that it would end its campaign of direct action. Th...

(Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to significantly cut the size of the agency, reducing about 10,000 full-time jobs and closing regional offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing documents. Kennedy is set...

(Reuters) - Federal authorities arrested a leader of the violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang in Virginia on Thursday, Trump administration officials said. The FBI, along with state and local authorities, took the 24-year-old suspect into custody ...

By Giulia Segreti ROME (Reuters) - Italy is concerned but not "terrified" of any new tariffs the United States could impose on wine, the country's agriculture minister said on Thursday, adding he hoped diplomatic efforts could avert damage to a key...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Washington has told the European Union it should not expect any trade negotiations before the United States has imposed more tariffs on the bloc next week, EU diplomats said on Thursday. U.S. President Donald Trump's administra...

(Reuters) - Military-ruled Myanmar is preparing to hold an election in December, its junta chief said on Thursday. Min Aung Hlaing during a speech at the annual armed forces day parade also urged urged anti-junta groups to renounce violence and pur...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish authorities deported a BBC News correspondent on Thursday after detaining him for 17 hours and branding him a "threat to public order". Mark Lowen had been in Turkey to cover mass street protests triggered by the arrest a...

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday that now was not the time to lift sanctions against Russia, speaking after a meeting with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and other leaders in Paris. Starmer met leaders ...

By Deena Beasley (Reuters) -Eli Lilly on Thursday expanded its direct-to-consumer online platform LillyDirect to include telehealth providers to diagnose and care for patients with Alzheimer's disease, potentially boosting sales of its drug Kisunla. "T...

(Reuters) -Shares of Soleno Therapeutics jumped nearly 40% in premarket hours on Thursday, after the company's drug for a rare metabolic condition became the first such treatment to receive U.S. regulatory nod. Soleno's Vykat XR was approved late on We...

(Reuters) -Bausch + Lomb said on Thursday it will recall some of its implantable eye lenses after receiving reports of complications, the cause of which could not immediately be known. The company said it is recalling these lenses, which are part of it...

(Reuters) - Some U.S. health regulators who review medical devices and tobacco products for safety and efficacy are struggling to meet deadlines mandated by Congress due to Trump administration layoffs, three scientists working on the projects told...

(Reuters) -U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is set to significantly cut the size of the agency, reducing about 10,000 full-time jobs and closing regional offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday, citing documents. Kennedy is set...

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Scientists using the James Webb Space Telescope have identified an ancient and faraway galaxy that provides evidence that an important transition period that brought the early universe out of its "dark ages" oc...

By Will Dunham (Reuters) - Fossils unearthed during construction of a water pipeline in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia have revealed one of the oddest members of a rather strange group of dinosaurs, a creature whose two-fingered hands sport a pair of ...

(Reuters) - Firefly Aerospace has partnered with Blue Origin's Honeybee Robotics to supply a rover for its third lunar mission in 2028 to study the Gruithuisen Domes, the Texas-based rocket maker said on Monday. The agreement with Honeybee Robotics...

OSLO (Reuters) - German startup Isar Aerospace said on Monday it has postponed the launch of a space rocket from Norway due to adverse weather conditions and will try again at a later time. The Spectrum rocket is intended to become the first orbita...

By Cecile Mantovani and Denis Balibouse JUNGFRAUJOCH, Switzerland (Reuters) - The biggest glacier in the Alps could yet be partially saved if global warming is capped below two degrees Celsius, Swiss scientists said on Friday, although significant ...

By Echo Wang (Reuters) -CoreWeave plans to reduce the size of its U.S. initial public offering and price shares below range, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday, dampening expectations that the listing would encourage a broader d...

(Reuters) - Chipmaker Wolfspeed said on Thursday it appointed industry veteran Robert Feurle as its CEO, months after its board ousted former top boss Gregg Lowe. Feurle, who has previously spent a decade in executive roles at Micron Technology, wi...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cleo AI agreed to pay $17 million to settle U.S. Federal Trade Commission charges that the cash advance company deceived customers about how much money they could obtain and how fast it would be, the regulator said on Thursday....

(Reuters) - Shares of Kyndryl fell more than 11% on Thursday, after a research report from short-seller Gotham City alleged the IT services provider has manipulated certain financial metrics. Gotham City said Kyndryl manipulated its reported adjust...

(Reuters) - Three Intel board members will not stand for reelection at its 2025 annual meeting, the chipmaker said in a regulatory filing on Thursday, amid a historic transition under newly appointed CEO Lip-Bu Tan. Since late last year, the compan...

ROME (Reuters) - A Disney TV crime series will return to its original name after an Italian court annulled a decision that had forced the show to adopt a new title, the global entertainment giant said on Tuesday. "Avetrana - This is not Hollywood" ...

By Natasha Mulenga and Hanna Rantala LONDON (Reuters) - Popular K-pop group Tomorrow X Together, also known as TXT, is making its European tour debut feeling inspired and more connected after two months away from the spotlight, its members said. Th...

By Juliette Jabkhiro PARIS (Reuters) - French movie star Gerard Depardieu admitted in court on Tuesday to grabbing by the hips a woman who accuses him of sexual assault, but denied this was assault and said any crude comments he may have made were ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's unwitting appearance in "Borat Subsequent Moviefilm" was named one of the year's worst performances by voters for the annual Razzie prizes on Saturday. The Razzies, or Golden Raspberry A...

By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) - French actor Gerard Depardieu was expected in court as his trial over alleged sexual assaults on a film set begins on Monday, a case placing one of the world's best known movie stars at the heart of France's b...