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Eau Claire County is reporting a record spike in coronavirus cases.  The city/county health department yesterday said the county’s seven-day coronavirus count topped 14-hundred cases.  That is double what the county saw last week, and three-times what the county was reporting two weeks ago.  Almost all of the cases are omicron cases. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS

Governor Tony Evers isn’t surprised that the Supreme Court nixed President Biden’s coronavirus vaccine mandate.  Governor Evers yesterday said he always had doubts about the president’s order that companies with more than 100 workers would have to force their employees to get vaccinated or get tested each week.  Evers says the important thing is that people can still get vaccinated, and he said businesses in Wisconsin can make that happen.  The governor and the state’s Department of Health Services continue to say

Wisconsin is ending the week with just over 22-hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus.  The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said hospitalization numbers fell from their record high earlier this week.  Still, nearly 480 people are in intensive care units across the state.

A judge in Waukesha says the ballot drop boxes used in the 2020 election are “nice,” but he says they are not allowed in the state.  The judge yesterday said the state’s Election Commission does not have the power to allow local election clerks to use a drop box to collect people’s votes.  The judge said there are only two ways to vote in Wisconsin, in person or through the mail.  The ruling also means ballot harvesting, where people collect ballots

Wisconsin’s latest mega-millionaire has not yet stepped forward.  The Wisconsin Lottery yesterday said no one has claimed the 316-million-dollar Powerball jackpot from this month’s drawing.  Someone bought one of two winning Powerball tickets at a gas station in Green Bay.  The winner has until early July to claim their prize.

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers grants dozens more pardons.  Evers announced 54 pardons this morning, bringing the total for his administration to 391.  Evers recently became the governor with the most pardons in Wisconsin history.

 Biomedical company Exact Sciences plans to invest millions of dollars to update its Madison locations and bring in around 13-hundred new jobs.  The company says the expansion will take place over three years and cost 350-million dollars.  Expected updates include a new research center, more lab space, and more warehouse space.

Gov. Tony Evers signed Executive Orders #152 and #153 ordering the flags of the United States and the state of Wisconsin to be flown at half-staff on, Wed., Jan. 12, 2022, and Fri., Jan. 14, 2022, in honor of firefighter James “Jim” Ludlum and Captain Brian Busch of the Mineral Point Fire Department, who passed away on Jan. 6, 2022, in the line of duty. “Jim and Brian lost their lives in the pursuit of saving others, and that is

In accordance with the attached Presidential Proclamation, the flag of the United States and the flag of the State of Wisconsin shall be flown at half-staff at all buildings, grounds, and military installations of the State of Wisconsin equipped with such flags beginning at midnight tonight and ending at sunset tomorrow, January 13, 2022, in honor of former Senator Harry Reid.

Newly released mortality data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show an alarming upward trajectory of deaths directly linked to excessive alcohol use nationally. This is also the case in Wisconsin, but to a greater extent. Alcohol-induced deaths rose nearly 25% in Wisconsin in 2020, the biggest one-year increase in more than two decades. This was just slightly below the national increase during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Wisconsin started with a higher