Wausau News

She booked flights, scouted hotel reservations and met other needs for corporate clients, taking calls on a headset and clicking options on her computer screen. But a spare room in her rural Eland farmhouse was a distinctly unconventional office setting...

I was one of the Marathon County Republicans who thought that Stevenson had been treated unfairly by the party. However, after his September 14th column in the Wausau Daily Herald, "GOP leaders unfair to Mielke," I have changed my mind....

Oktoberfest will be in full swing Sunday with cold beer and brats served at the Arrow Sports Club in Weston. Copper Box, will kick off the party at 1 p.m. with their music blended from rock, zydeco and polka and...

The sheriff's sale for Chicago gangster Al Capone 's reputed hideout in northern Wisconsin ended with only one bid -- the minimum of $2.6 million. Sawyer County Sheriff's Secretary Margie Schull said more than 30 people showed up at the...

Nelles, 84, Wausau, died Friday, Sept. 25, 2009, at the Palliative Care Unit of Aspirus Wausau Hospital...Survivors include her two sons, Paul (Debra) Nelles, Knowlton, and Daniel (Julie) Nelles, Merrill; three daughters, Mary (David) Hall, Fitchburg, Louise (Kevin) Wolf, Wausau,...

Negotiators with Marathon County and organized labor have reached a tentative agreement to delay a portion of workers' upcoming raises, saving taxpayers about $183,000 in 2010's tight budget. The county's Human Resources Committee will consider Monday the proposal to delay...

A row of old cars, trucks and vans sat at the south end of Brickner�s of Wausau until last week, the words �junk� and �clunker� scrawled across their windshields. A flat-bed truck came by periodically to haul them away, while...