The “Great Race of Portage County” was wrapping up Saturday morning.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Talks about merging the dispatch center for three local law enforcement agencies continue.

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.

Nekoosa police are searching for a man accused of breaking into a home and assaulting a woman.

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.

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

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.

A groundbreaking ceremony Wednesday marks a new landmark for the Hatley community.

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

Hmong refugee students are beginning to arrive in Wausau, and already they're learning classroom basics.

With just over two months to go before Election Day, the presidential campaigns are out in full force. But while George Bush and John Kerry have made several stops around the state, they've been absent from Central Wisconsin.

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.

The DNR is closing its Wausau office on Mondays and Wednesdays because of budget problems.

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

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.

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

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

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

The state is coming up with $1 million to fund job programs for incoming Hmong refugees.

A local man is being honored for his work at North Central Technical College.