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One of the Chippewa Valley’s state lawmakers is caught-up in another 2020 election story. State Senator Kathy Bernier was on Ginni Thomas’ 2020 election email list. Thomas sent Bernier an email asking her to choose new electors. Bernier says she doesn’t remember the email, saying it was one of thousands she got at the time.

There is a confirmed case of the monkeypox in St. Croix County. The county’s health department announced the case yesterday. It is their first. No one is saying just who caught the pox, or where. The CDC says there are 56 monkeypox cases in all of Wisconsin. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS.

Wisconsin is seeing fewer people in the hospital with the coronavirus that a week ago. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said 467 people are in the hospital with the virus, including 81 in the ICU. Both of those numbers are down from a week ago. Wisconsin had been closer to 500 hospitalizations for the past few weeks. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A new state audit says there are questions about where the state’s broadband money was actually spent. The Legislative Audit Bureau released its report yesterday. Auditors say the state’s Public Service Commission didn’t track just how much internet companies actually spent to expand broadband service across the state. Auditors also say there was no documentation to prove the work was actually done. In all, the Public Service Commission gave internet companies over 100 million-dollars in coronavirus stimulus money to work

The State of Wisconsin is offering free coronavirus tests.  The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says you can visit say-yes-COVID-home-test-dot-org to order five free tests.  There are also still around 500 free community coronavirus testing sites across Wisconsin.

 A group of University of Wisconsin Health nurses is going on strike.  SEIU Healthcare Wisconsin says its nurses will notify the hospital of the strike tomorrow and will go on strike September 13th.  The union says nurses are going on strike for more quality patient care, safer staffing, and to get union recognition.

Wisconsin Women in Conservation (WiWiC) is hosting a women’s field day in Amery on Saturday, Sept. 10, from 1-4pm, at Blackbrook Farm. Co-owner Ayla Graden-Dodge, who is a WiWiC Conservation Coach, will lead a farm tour, which will be followed by networking time and a farm-sourced snack. The event is FREE and open to all interested women farmers, landowners and conservationists. Children arewelcome with supervision. RSVP at WiWiC.org. “To be able to see the increase in toads, worms and all

A large number of fraudulent messages claiming to be Facebook customer service representatives or automated customer service systems have recently been reported to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP) Bureau of Consumer Protection. These messages claim that a recipient’s Facebook account has been hacked, stolen, or disabled, and urge them to click a link in order to recover their account. If the link is opened, users are asked to “log in” to a website that appears

A Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper and Jackson County Deputy responded to a pick-up truck vs.mini-bike crash on County Road C in the Town of Albion. Both of the unit’s involved in the crashwere traveling east on County Road C when the male subject that was driving the mini-bike turnedleft into his driveway. The pick-up truck struck the back of the mini-bike causing the driver to fall offwhich resulted in injury. The driver of the mini-bike was airlifted from the scene.

There are now shoplifting charges against the Chippewa County mom charged in her son’s death. Prosecutors on Monday charged Natasha Bratland with stealing from the Walmart in Lake Hallie. Police say she stole about 40 dollars’ worth of items. Bratland is looking at child neglect charges in Taylor County after her son was hit by a train last summer. Police say Bratland told them she was already going to prison, so she didn’t think stealing from Walmart would make much