Merrill News

MERRILL - Two teens have been charged in connection to the April 2007 murder of a Tomahawk woman while a key suspect has reached a plea deal with prosecutors.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department says a 19-year-old man involved in a motorcycle crash in the Town of Corning has died from his injuries.

Controversy stemming from a proposed house on Merrillan's Oakwood Lake has left the future of the village's dam and scenic waterfall uncertain.

TOWN OF MERRILL - Fire crews are trying to determine what caused a fire this morning that destroyed a town of Merrill home.

MERRILL - Residents who live in the Merrill Area Public Schools district will help decide in the coming weeks the future of students' education by filling out a survey and talking with district leaders at two ...

Mike Lewis was enthusiastic about sharing his beer at the first Lincoln Lager Barleyfest on Saturday afternoon in Merrill.

Two of the largest Wausau-area school districts had significant increases in student enrollment while another two posted declines in their annual tally.

Friday, Oct. 3 'New Broadway 101,' a musical revue by the CenterStage Band and Show Choir, will weave together songs from popular modern musicals such as 'Suessical the Musical,' 'Young Frankenstein' and ...

Candidates for three local state Assembly races will square off Monday during a debate co-sponsored by the Wausau Daily Herald.

The City of Merrill paid about $91 in fire protection for every man, woman and child in 2006, well below the state average and what a recent report indicated, city officials said.

After Tracy Jopek gave Sen. Barack Obama a bracelet in honor of her son who was killed in Iraq, she asked Obama not to mention the bracelet on the campaign trail.

After nearly a half-century of cutting hair, Mark Resch hung up his scissors for good on Friday afternoon.

Massage could reduce anxieties and improve test results for women who are about to undergo a mammography, say researchers conducting a unique study in Wausau.

First-graders from St. Francis Xavier School in Merrill attended the historic school for a day, learning with old-style teaching methods from retired Merrill area teachers.

Warm, dry and windy weather this week could increase the wildfire danger. A town of Texas woman learned that the hard way Tuesday afternoon.

The Lincoln County Sheriff's Department says a woman is dead and a man is in critical condition after the motorcycle they were riding crashed into a semi Tuesday afternoon.

Three fire departments this afternoon continue to control a grass fire that covered about an acre of land.

Brewing memorabilia from around Wisconsin is featured in the Great Room of the National Brewery Museum in Potosi.

The need for child care outside of the home has been on the rise for decades, with both parents in many families working, and more single-parent homes.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development Wisconsin State Director Frank Frassetto delivered federal grants on Sept.