The bipartisan infrastructure legislation that Biden recently signed includes $15 billion to replace lead pipes across the country. Montana Birt unspooled a flexible metal line, bit by bit, as a worker in a dug-out hole below fed it into a pipe buried about 10 feet...
As school boards—many times influenced by groups funded by national conservative organizations—decline to enact COVID safety protocols, local parent groups are pushing back. As parents and others in Wausau watched the number of new COVID-19 cases rise and...
Wausau will take in as many as 85 Afghan refugees who fled the Taliban takeover of their home country. Wednesday’s announcement that as many as 85 Afghan refugees could be resettled in Wausau is welcome news to supporters of that action, who say those newcomers will...
Insensitive depictions of Native Americans are demeaning and further negative views that help lead to violence against indigenous people, advocates said. After gaining support for a resolution against the use of race-based school mascots in 2019 that garnered...
“This sends the message that some people don’t matter as much as others in our community,” one official said. Supporters of a controversial resolution declaring Marathon County a “Community for All” said they worry the County Board’s repeated failure to pass the...