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- Tonight on Newswatch 12:
We'll take you live to Wausau where a traveling wall honoring Vietnam veterans is being displayed.
Northwoods State Senator Tom Tiffany today rolled out a set of bills he's calling the "Homeowners' Bill of Rights." He tells us why the bill is important.
And we show you a camp in St. Germain where autistic children can step away and enjoy life with their families.
We'll bring you the details on these stories and more tonight on Newswatch 12 - news from where you live.
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RHINELANDER - Food pantries all over the country help to build hunger free communities.
One Northwoods food pantry is celebrating a huge milestone it reached earlier this month.
The Rhinelander Area Food Pantry has distributed more than five million pounds of food in its twelve years of operation.
That comes out to about five tons of food going out the doors each week.
"Five million pounds of food is unreal. It's…the community has been wonderful. This community has always supported us, not only with money and with donations, but with volunteers," said Treasurer Ginger Chrobak.
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ARCADIA - Parts of Wisconsin remain underwater or in cleanup mode after flooding.
That now, that includes western Wisconsin.
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MERRILL - As soon as two days after police found 55-year-old Kevin Monroe dead in a Merrill home in January 2016, they started treating the death as a homicide.
But for the next year and a half, no one was charged in the case.
That changed on Friday, when the county prosecutor charged Monroe's 21-year-old son, Tyler, with his father's murder.
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RHINELANDER - Those looking for jobs in manufacturing don't have to go to a big city to get a job. There are a lot of opportunities right here in the Northwoods.
Nicolet College held a manufacturing expo with both educators and employers Wednesday to show the community what opportunities are available in the field.
"It's just a really good opportunity to see what the education pathway looks like for manufacturing, but then also that end game at the very end to see what the sacrifice was worth when you look at employment opportunities," said Nicolet College Career Coach Angeline Kesler.
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WASHINGTON - Doctors say Arizona Sen. John McCain has a brain tumor associated with a blood clot that was removed last week.
In a statement late Wednesday, doctors reveal that McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer. The statement says the 80-year-old senator and his family are reviewing further treatment, including a combination of chemotherapy and radiation.
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RHINELANDER - The Oneida County Department on Aging wants to make sure that when people get up in years, their activity levels don't go down.
The department wants to stress that it's not a retirement home. In fact, it's a place that's filled with life and activity.
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