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Starting next year Lacrosse will be an official high school sport in Wisconsin.  Today the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association Board of Control unanimously approved sanctioning boys and girls lacrosse starting in the 2023-2024 school year.  The WIAA says it will release more details in the future.

Some love stories are spicy with young love and some “dip into” a more steady and regular routine. For this week’s Friday Feel Good we head to a grocery store, where an elderly Arizona couple had the perfect ingredients for a special love story all their own.  They decided to tie the knot where they first met . . . in the condiment aisle of their local grocery store.   The newlyweds Brenda and Dennis Delgado talk about their relationship and why it

The Eau Claire County District Attorney’s Office has determined that the actions of City of Eau Claire Police Officers Sam Sperry and Tre Johnson on September 4, 2022, in the course of their law enforcement duties in the City and County of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, were reasonable acts of self-defense and defense of others. TO READ THE FULL REPORT, CLICK HERE.

Visit Eau Claire is excited to announce the re-launch of the ‘Eau, Snow! Winter Challenge’ mobile pass for a second year. The ‘Eau, Snow! Winter Challenge’ is a free mobile-exclusive pass that features local winterrecreational activities throughout the Chippewa Valley. The pass utilizes geolocation technology, which allows pass holders to check in when they arrive at a featured location and participate in activities such as snowshoeing, sledding, cross-country skiing, and many others. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) activity levels in Eau Claire County and Wisconsin have increased over the past few weeks, reaching levels higher than usual for this time of the year.The Eau Claire City-County Health Department encourages the community to take several steps while these respiratory viruses are circulating at high levels:• Stay home when you feel sick.• Get up to date on flu and COVID-19 vaccines, including a COVID-19 booster dose if you’re eligible.• Get tested if you

A Fort Atkinson woman will spend the rest of her life in prison for killing her grandmother, then setting her house on fire. A judge yesterday sentenced Elizabeth Durkee to life with the possibility of parole. Durkee admitted that she killed her grandmother last year to keep her from returning to a nursing home. She set the house on fire to cover-up the crime. Durkee, who is 37-years-old, will be allowed to apply for parole after 22-years in prison.

 We’re getting a better picture of the violent past of downtown Madison’s latest accused shooter. Police records show 40-year-old Lamar Jefferson was arrested a week before last week’s deadly shooting after he threatened to kill someone. The police report from his arrest says Jefferson told officers someone hit him, and said he was going to kill that person. Jefferson was eventually arrested for disorderly conduct. He shot and wounded a man on State Street Tuesday afternoon. Jefferson remains on the

The western Wisconsin man who threatened to kill people to get his child back is looking at charges. Prosecutors in Buffalo County yesterday said charges will be coming against Samuel Holmes. He’s the man arrested on Wednesday after the sheriff’s office says he threatened employees of Buffalo County Health and Human Service, and after he called Lutheran Social Services in Eau Claire.

Wisconsin’s governor is looking to take the first step toward setting regulations for the so-called forever chemicals. Governor Tony Evers is expected to ask the Department of Natural Resources Board for permission to create standards for PFAS pollution. There are currently no state regulations at all because the conservatives who control the DNR board scuttled a proposal to set those limits earlier this year. DNR is hoping for better luck this time because the federal EPA recently set its own

The D.A.s in Milwaukee, Madison, and Sheboygan want a judge to dismiss Attorney General Josh Kaul’s lawsuit against Wisconsin’s abortion law. The three prosecutors yesterday asked a judge to toss the case, saying Kaul doesn’t belong in the case. Sheboygan County D.A. Joel Urmanski said in his argument that Kaul should be asking lawmakers to change the 1849 law, not the court. The other two D.A.s say Kaul has not been ‘injured’ by the old law. Kaul filed his lawsuit not