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The State Supreme Court justices have several options before them as they redraw Wisconsin’s legislative maps.  The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday threw out those maps and now, the state Supreme Court must draw a new map by April 15th, so election officials can know the boundaries as candidates file paperwork for a place on the ballot.  Among their options they can consider is to reapprove Democratic Governor Tony Evers’ maps, keeping a close eye on the Voting Rights Act.  They

The city of Waukesha is going to invest in some high-tech barriers to make sure it avoids another tragedy such as last year’s Christmas parade.  City officials say the barriers they’re going to buy — called modular vehicle barriers — can stop vehicles and be linked together to cover wide spaces.  Waukesha plans to purchase the high-tech barriers at a cost of 800-thousand dollars.

Eau Claire officials say they’re continuing to press for a solution to the persistent reports of criminal activity at the Regency Hotel on Hastings Way.  Most recently, the hotel was the scene of a confrontation between police and a man who was driving a stolen car.  Following a high-speed chase, John Martin was arrested and is charged with several offenses, including resisting arrest.  Eau Claire city officials have gone to court to close the hotel or find a new owner. 

Wisconsin’s unemployment rate is at a record low.  The Department of Workforce Development reported the state’s jobless rate declined to two-point-nine-percent last month, down from three-percent in January.  The state also added more than 20-thousand private sector jobs over that same time period.  Wisconsin’s two-point-nine-percent unemployment rate ties the previous record low set in January, February, and March of 2018 and again in March 2020.

Milwaukee Police say two teenaged girls are in custody and facing charges in the case of a three-month-old child who had been the subject of an AMBER Alert Wednesday.  The girls are aged 14 and 16.  The infant – Anthony Crudup Junior — was reported missing by his mother early Wednesday from a home near Sherman and Marion.  She said she had let several people spend the night at the home and when she awoke, they were gone along with

Officials in Medford say the success of their Parkfest concert last summer has led to plans for a permanent bandshell in the city park.  Members of the city’s Bandshell Committee laid out those plans before the city council this week.  The group says it’s looking at placing the bandshell on the north side of the park along the edge of the current gravel parking lot.  Meanwhile, organizers say they’re close to confirming a headline act for this year’s Parkfest.   

   The Ridgeland Area Library’s inventory has grown by about one-thousand books, thanks to the generosity of a couple who lives not quite an hour away.  Members of the library’s board say the couple who donated the books lives in Arkansaw.  They had collected books most of their lives and had read about the Ridgeland library in the Eau Claire Leader Telegram more than six years ago.  When they decided to find a new home for their collection, they remembered

Price County Sheriff Brian Schmidt reports on March 17, 2022, at about 10:40 p.m. the Sheriff’s Office was notified of a vehicle vs. pedestrian crash on State Highway 13 north of State Highway 111 in the Township of Worcester. The preliminary investigation revealed the pedestrian was walking in the vicinity of the northbound shoulder of the roadway when they were struck by a northbound pickup truck. The pedestrian, a 36-year-old male from Phillips, now identified as Troy Schulenberg was pronounced

It was just before 11 on Thursday morning, March 24th, when a traffic stop turned into an arrest for an Illinois man. Jacqueline Alarcon, 35 years of age, from Waukegan, IL has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with two children in the vehicle under the age of 16. A Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper conducted a traffic stop for a speed violation on I94 in Eau

Wisconsin home values are increasing at the fastest rate in decades.  The Wisconsin Policy Forum says real estate sales revenue went up nearly 36-million dollars from the 2020 fiscal year to the 2021 fiscal year.  That’s an increase of 37-percent.  The Wisconsin Police Forum says the increase has been driven by healthy real estate sales numbers and high residential property values.