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Ice Castles are set to open in Lake Geneva next week, the attraction announced Friday, despite the warmer winter Wisconsin has experienced.

Ice Castles are set to return to Lake Geneva this month. The award-winning frozen attraction is aiming to open at the end of January or beginning of February, officials said. The attraction was hoping to open earlier this winter, but warm weather has prevented it. The ice castles are located in six cities across North America. The experience is built…

The top headlines you need to know as you start your day on Dec. 3, 2019.

Fridays for Future school strikes — a movement led largely by teenage girls — has eclipsed the quiet, solitary protests started by its founder, 16-year-old Swede Greta Thunberg, in August 2018. Now upward of 2 million supporters from The Hague to Kampala, Uganda, regularly skip class on Friday and take to the streets to protest government inaction on climate change....

Swiss residents and tourists alike are partying like they haven’t since 1999. The town of Vevey has kicked off the 12th “Fete des Vignerons,” or Winemakers Festival, the latest installment in a centuries-old tradition of celebrating vineyard workers — which nowadays takes place only once a generation. Festival organizers have pulled out the stops for the celebration in Vevey, a...

The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...

The International Olympic Committee has formally opened its 145 million Swiss francs ($145 million) new headquarters exactly 125 years after the Olympic Games was revived. “On our 125th anniversary, we clearly see what a great visionary Pierre de Coubertin was,” IOC President Thomas Bach told guests Sunday at the inauguration. “By bringing the entire world together in peaceful competition, the...

For area residents looking for something fun to do this winter, a new construction project in Lake Geneva is sure to amaze you.

Three Wisconsin men found Wednesday morning near north suburban Antioch with guns, drugs and monkey masks inside their vehicle were on their way to retaliate against another group over an earlier confrontation, according to authorities.

A school board Monday heard an hour of passionate and at times heated comments about one part of a long cherished four-day 6th-grade trip that one family and their daughter believe should never be repeated.

A school board Monday heard an hour of passionate and at times heated comments about one part of a long cherished four-day 6th-grade trip that one family and their daughter believe should never be repeated. Dick Johnson reports.

A couple says their child was subjected to a racially insensitive exercise on a school field trip and they still can’t believe it happened.

A couple says their child was subjected to a racially insensitive exercise on a school field trip and they still can’t believe it happened. NBC 5’s Regina Waldroup has the details.

A grand jury has indicted a former Northwestern University professor and an Oxford University employee on first-degree murder charges in the July stabbing death of a hairstylist in the professor’s Chicago apartment, a judge announced Friday.

Prosecutors alleged Sunday that the men charged in the “gruesome” stabbing death of a 26-year-old hairdresser committed the crime as part of a sexual fantasy of “killing others and then themselves.”

Prosecutors alleged Sunday that the men charged in the “gruesome” stabbing death of a 26-year-old hairdresser committed the crime as part of a sexual fantasy of “killing others and then themselves.”

Prosecutors alleged Sunday that the men charged in the “gruesome” stabbing death of a 26-year-old hairdresser committed the crime as part of a sexual fantasy of “killing others and then themselves.” NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.

Lake Michigan could soon get its first floating water park.