Updated: 8:38 PM It should have been a day to enjoy the big balloons and raise money for a good cause, but a freak accident put a damper on a balloon rally in Wisconsin Rapids and left a family without their mother.

Updated: 8:31 PM Despite the deadly crash, the organizers of the balloon rally say it must go on.

Updated: 8:29 PM Some local mothers of soldiers fighting the war in Iraq are going through a tough time, but they're finding comfort in each other.

Updated: 8:27 PM The “Great Race of Portage County” was wrapping up Saturday morning.

Updated: 6:14 PM The program is Habitat for Humanity, and while that's nothing new, enlisting the help of a class of local high schoolers to build a house is.

Updated: 5:50 PM The beat will go on for a local nightclub, but not exactly how the owner had hoped it would.

Updated: 10:37 PM Big slabs of Wisconsin granite are being transformed into works of art. A world-class sculptor and a local man are teaming up to bring these works of art to downtown Milwaukee.

Updated: 8:48 PM The owner of a Stratford area bar will pay the state $15,000 for dumping the contents of a holding tank in an area where they may have flowed into a nearby river.

Updated: 8:47 PM Just five years ago, it was a thriving dairy business. Now, it's an empty home and barn, filled only with a lot of unanswered questions.

Updated: 8:44 PM Talks about merging the dispatch center for three local law enforcement agencies continue.

Updated: 8:44 PM Officials say it's time to crack down on Whooping Cough, which is on the rise in Wisconsin, before children return to school and infect classmates.

Updated: 8:34 PM Nekoosa police are searching for a man accused of breaking into a home and assaulting a woman.

Updated: 10:18 PM Some Hmong families in our area are waiting anxiously to hear from their loved ones at a refugee camp in Thailand. Hundreds of refugees living at the camp are reportedly being detained by the Thai Army.

Updated: 8:01 PM A Wausau man accused of assaulting five teenage girls waives his right to a preliminary hearing is due back in court next month.

Updated: 7:59 PM A Shawano County man convicted of taking his son out of the state without permission will spend six months in jail and three years on probation.

Updated: 7:32 PM A groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday marks a new landmark for the Hatley community.

Updated: 7:28 PM Soldiers have detained 2,000 Hmong living at a refugee camp in Thailand. News agencies began reporting the detainments late Tuesday.

Updated: 7:23 PM Hmong refugee students are beginning to arrive in Wausau, and already they're learning classroom basics.

Updated: 8:09 PM A Nekoosa man accused of sexually assaulting a child in the basement of a church says he's not guilty by reason of mental disease.

Updated: 8:08 PM The DNR is closing its Wausau office on Mondays and Wednesdays because of budget problems.

Updated: 8:06 PM A Wausau area company is buying a boat maker and may put up a new factory, creating 15 new jobs.

Updated: 8:05 PM The Marathon County Board's decision to “ok” the power line through part of Nine Mile recreation area is the latest twist in a debate that's been going on since 1999.

Updated: 8:04 PM Whether it’s preschool, kindergarten, or elementary school, separation anxiety can take hold of students and sometimes parents.

Updated: 8:02 PM A vote cast by the Marathon County Board Tuesday is helping the new power line proposed from here to Duluth clear a major hurdle.

Updated: 1:35 PM Even Wausau East High School students that are only children will have a big brother watching over them this school year.