When the war between Russia and Ukraine began this time last year, a Marathon County couple reflected on their experiences working with Ukrainians rebuilding from the fall of the Soviet Union.
After a year of building a resettlement agency and setting up new lives for 160 people seeking refuge, the Multicultural Community Center - Wausau is celebrating those lives and the community that has supported those efforts.
America’s involvement in Afghanistan stretches back decades and that involvement has shaped the lives of the people finding refuge in central Wisconsin.
It has been nearly a month since the first two families from Afghanistan to be resettled in Wausau arrived at the Central Wisconsin Airport. Those few weeks have been busy as they reestablish a new life in a new community and country.
The president of the group looking to purchase the paper mill in Wisconsin Rapids said he is cautiously optimistic about a Scandinavian company acquiring Verso, the current owner of that mill.
The director of the Multicultural Cultural Center of Wausau is still in the process of building the foundations of the new organization that will resettle refugees in the area, but one piece of the puzzle that has not been an issue putting together is having employers willing and able to hire them.
For the first time, a formal refugee resettlement agency has an office and a director in Wausau, and he is sharing the plans for the agency and more about the refugees first with NewsChannel 7.
Dozens of people in Wausau are working to build the infrastructure needed to help support people who have fled their home countries in search of safety in central Wisconsin. It is a large web of resources; one major strand supporting the effort is the Marathon County Literacy Council, or McLit.
Tucked amongst the tree and hills of Thailand near the Laotian border in the 1970s, a camp called Ban Vinai was the largest encampment of Hmong refugees fleeing the North Vietnamese. That is where Yauo Yang was born in 1980, but that is not where his story begins.
As Sen. Ron Johnson and Wisconsin republican state representatives toured Fort McCoy Wednesday, they cast doubt on the vetting process for Afghan refugees. White House representatives affirmed the process NewsChannel 7 has reported over the last week, saying “No one gets on a flight to the United States without clearing that screening, period.”
As the first wave of refugees land at military bases like Fort McCoy in Wisconsin, the federal government is beginning to share more details about how those bases will serve Afghan refugees.
Non-profit resettlement agencies around the state and country were in meetings Friday to learn more about when Afghan refugees could be coming to Wisconsin and which organizations will be asked to help with resettlement.
War veterans are expressing their feelings as they watch everything unfold in a place that took a piece of them, literally and figuratively. Including one local man who left Afghanistan after being shot in the face.
NewsChannel 7′s Share Your Holidays campaign is having an effect on a global scale. One dedicated WSAW viewer in Australia completely changed his career path because of it and as the campaign continues a little differently this year, he encourages people to give because it provides joy to more than just the receiver.
In the more than six-minute-long video seen by Associated Press journalists, the students’ captors tell one boy to repeat the kidnappers’ demands that the government call off its troops and aircraft hunting for them.
The court halved the four-year ban proposed last year by the World Anti-Doping Agency in a landmark case that accused Russia of state-ordered tampering of a testing laboratory database in Moscow.
The World Health Organization reported late Sunday the largest single-day increase in coronavirus cases by its count, at more than 183,000 new cases in the latest 24 hours.
Workers are preparing the Eiffel Tower for reopening next week, after the coronavirus pandemic led to the iconic Paris landmark’s longest closure since World War II.
An award-winning journalist critical of the Philippine president was convicted of libel and sentenced to jail Monday in a decision called a major blow to press freedom in an Asian bastion of democracy.
Experts say a number of factors have helped New Zealand wipe out the disease, including its isolated location in the South Pacific that gave it vital time to see the devastating spread of the virus in other countries.
A raging fire swept through a train in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab Province on Thursday killing 74 people and survivors said afterward it took nearly 20 minutes for the train to stop amid contradictory reports about the condition of the train’s brakes.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson grudgingly asked the European Union late Saturday to delay Brexit after the British Parliament postponed a decision on whether to back his divorce deal.
By NASSER KARIMI and JON GAMBRELL Associated Press
U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper said the U.S. will send fighter jets and additional air defenses to the Saudis to help defend the kingdom against Iran amid the heightened tensions.
By MEHMET GUZEL and SARAH EL DEEB Associated Press
No U.S. troops were hurt in Friday's explosion at the small U.S. outpost, and the artillery strike marked the first time a coalition base was in the line of fire since Turkey's offensive began.
North Korea said Thursday it has carried out its first underwater-launched ballistic missile test in three years, in an apparent bid to dial up pressure on the United States ahead of a weekend resumption of their nuclear diplomacy.
A British-flagged oil tanker held by Iran since July was released Friday and was heading toward the United Arab Emirates, the company that owns the vessel said.
Canadian leader Justin Trudeau's campaign for national elections was hit Wednesday by the publication of a yearbook photo showing him in brownface makeup at a costume party in 2001.
A charity rescue ship with 82 migrants aboard said Saturday it has received permission to sail to a tiny southern Italian island, in a possible sign Italy's hard line against such vessels might be easing somewhat under the new government.
Pope Francis will visit Thailand and Japan in November in a visit expected to highlight his call for complete nuclear disarmament and honor the small Catholic communities in each country.
In a session that ran past midnight, Parliament enacted a law to block a no-deal Brexit next month, ordered the government to release private communications about its Brexit plans and rejected Johnson's call for a snap election to break the political deadlock.
North Korea said Saturday its leader Kim Jong Un supervised another test-firing of a new multiple rocket launcher system that could potentially enhance the country's ability to strike targets in South Korea and U.S. military bases there.
Gunfire broke out and a stampede ensued as fans celebrated at a rally Monday for the NBA champion Raptors, leaving four people shot and thousands fleeing less than a block from where the players and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau sat on stage.
It marks the first sweep of arrests to target individuals perceived as critics of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in October.
Elimination of the last IS stronghold in Baghouz marks the end of the militants' self-declared caliphate, which at its height blanketed large parts of Syria and Iraq.
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