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Governor Tony Evers  now has the most pardons for any Wisconsin governor.  Evers announced 30 new pardons Tuesday, bringing the total for his administration to 337.  Previous Governor Scott Walker didn’t grant any pardons during his eight years in office.

Kwik Trip is set to open its 800th location this week in west-central Wisconsin.  The store will be in Holmen, in the 17-hundred block of Temte Street near Highways 53 and 35.  Kwik Trip says the store will open at five o’clock Thursday morning.  It’ll be nine-thousand square feet and include a car wash and grocery market.

Hospitals in Madison say they’re close to becoming overwhelmed because of the Omicron coronavirus variant.  University of Wisconsin Health released a statement today saying it’s struggling to deal with the number of patients its seeing.  Coronavirus hospitalizations are actually down at Madison hospitals from earlier this month.  As of Sunday 110 patients are in Madison and Dane County hospitals with the virus, down from 133 earlier this month.

The Chippewa County Department of Public Health has confirmed two cases of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) associated with COVID-19 in Chippewa County. The children are between three and twelve years old. To protect privacy, and out of respect for the families, no other patient information will be disclosed. “Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a rare, but serious condition that is seen with COVID infection in children. It is related to severe inflammation and can affect many

Lake Hallie Police say they caught a pair of catalytic converter thieves from Eau Claire. Officers say they found a freshly-stolen converter in the pair’s Jeep. Officers arrested Ryan Deveau and Timothy Cox shortly after the two left Wisconsin Auto Auction on Sunday night. Police say they found other car parts in their Jeep as well, police believe all of the parts were stolen. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM LAKE HALLIE AUTHORITIES

We are waiting on a ‘why’ in an arson fire at a Milwaukee apartment building. Everyone made it out of Sunday’s fire at the building not far from Marquette’s campus. A 19-year-old suspect is in custody. Yesterday, the Red Cross said most of the 140 people who live in the apartment complex have found a place to stay temporarily.  Volunteers say about 20 people remain without a place to stay.  Firefighters say the fire was contained to just one apartment,

If the particulars are right, and if everyone agrees, then Wisconsin’s governor could agree to bail changes in the state. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said in one of his many year-end interviews that he is open to talking about bail changes following the attack at Waukesha’s Christmas Parade last month. The suspect in that case was given a thousand-dollar bail, despite a lengthy and violent criminal history, just days before police say he ran down more than 60 people in the

Wisconsin’s State of the State speech is returning to the Capitol in 2022. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said he will once again deliver the speech in-person, and in the statehouse. The governor moved his speech to the governor’s mansion earlier this year. Governor Evers is due to deliver his speech on February 15th.

While some communities across Wisconsin are booked solid, Eau Claire has plenty of open coronavirus appointments. Public health managers say tests are available at the Pablo Center downtown. The city/county health department says there is PCR testing from noon until 5 p.m. on weekdays, and antigen testing from noon until 8 p.m. every day of the week. The Pablo Center will be closed for the New Year’s holiday weekend. There has been a change in guidelines as well. The CDC is cutting

Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers are holding steady. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there are 16-hundred people in the hospital with the virus. That is exactly the count the Hospital Association reported at the end of last week. The Hospital Association says there are just over 400 people in ICUs in the state. The Hospital Association does not track who is hospitalized with the virus and who is hospitalized because of it.