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American families struggling with food insecurities, may not know a program created to help them has just updated its food offerings. Katie Gray Reports. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS.

Stressing the importance of offering nutritious meals to children during the summer months, the UW-Eau Claire Upward Bound announces the sponsorship of the Summer Food Service Program. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. The Summer Food Service Program (SFSP), which is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and is administered by the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, provides nutritious meals to children during the summer, when free and reduced-price school meals are typically unavailable. Free meals will be made

The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley and Triangle2 Solutions will perform a community interest assessment to test demand for a YMCA in Menomonie, WI. Our goal is to understand the needs of the communities within our area and determine how our organization can help answer the call…” -Derek White, President & CEO, YMCA of the Chippewa Valley. Over 400 homes throughout the Menomonie service area will be called in the coming weeks. Residents will be randomly selected to participate in

The woman who police say drove her car through the Christmas decorations in Chippewa Falls last winter is headed to a mental hospital for treatment.  A judge yesterday found Ebony Hudson unfit for trial. Police say she sped through the decorations at Irvine Park last December.  She’s also accused of ramming a city truck that tried to block her.  Hudson maintained that she is competent, and asked to go to trial.  The judge says she’s a threat to herself.  She’ll

There’s been a guilty plea in the drunk driving crash that killed an Eau Claire man and his baby.  Former Superior police officer Gregory Swanson pleaded guilty to two charges of homicide by drunk driving yesterday.  He resigned as an officer about a month after the crash back in 2021 that killed 23-year-old Michael Evans of Eau Claire. Evans’ baby died a few days later.  Swanson is looking at 10 years in prison when he is sentenced in July.

A former teachers aide in Polk County is looking at charges after investigators say she sent topless photos to a student.  Prosecutors this week filed charges against Sarah Monson.  Investigators say she sent topless pictures to a student SnapChat, and even suggested that they have sex.  Monson told police that the student threatened to kill her if she didn’t send the pictures, but other students sat Monson often flirted with the student.  Monsoon is a special education para-professional at the

A new report says UW-Madison’s rankings as a top university have slipped over the past decade or so.  The report from the university’s own Center for Research on the Wisconsin Economy said UW-Madison has slipped as both a top university in America, and a top university in the world. US News & World Report says UW-Madison is the 35th best school in the country, but the Wall Street Journal has it ranked as the 79th best school.  Internationally, UW-Madison has

The chorus of people who want to close the Green Bay Correctional Center is growing.  Local leaders from the Green Bay area met at the Capitol yesterday to push to close the aging and crowded prison.  Republican lawmakers, like Shea Sortwell, want to close Green Bay and replace it with a brand new prison.  Local leaders, like Allouez’s village president, want to redevelop the land where the prison currently sits.  Wisconsin has struggled for years with a large number of

The top Republican in the Wisconsin Senate is urging the state’s superintendent of schools to move ahead with literacy changes for school kids.  Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday wrote a letter to the Department of Public Instruction and Superintendent Jill Undelry.  He said the governor’s partial veto of a plan to send 50 million-dollars to schools across the state should not stand in the way of other reading reforms that were approved by lawmakers.  The governor changed the literacy