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The Eau Claire Children’s Museum is proud to highlight the success of its LEGO Spike Clubs, innovative after-school programs now offered at Flynn Elementary and Sam Davey Elementary Schools within the Eau Claire Area School District (ECASD). These engaging clubs run for six weeks, meeting twice weekly for 1.5-hour sessions, and provide children in grades 1, 2, and 3 with hands-on STEAM-based learning entirely free of charge. Each club serves 15 participants, with robust waitlists reflecting widespread interest—9 students for Flynn Elementary and 17 for

“First and foremost, we help them get the most out of their military and veteran education benefits,” University of Wisconsin-Stout’s long tradition of serving the military community has once again earned the university high honors as a Military Friendly® School.   Its silver designation through the program marked the 16th consecutive year that UW-Stout has been named a Military Friendly® School because of its efforts to offer service and support to meet the needs of military students.  UW-Stout is one of

Eau Claire’s new food truck area is now open for the season. The area, which is called “The Spot,” opened in the middle of last year and is ready to serve people for the first full season. “The Spot” is located off Hastings Way, near the Pinehurst Shopping Center. The area will have different food choices every week. For now, “The Spot” can only hold three to four trucks, but if successful will expand. CLICK HERE FOR MORE WITH VO.

Drift Cycle, La Crosse’s bike share program, is returning for its fifth year. The program kicked off its program yesterday and they are looking to expand throughout the city this year. At the launch, Drift Cycle showed off a new app that will make the program a lot easier from years past. Over a dozen stations will be scattered throughout the city for people to rent bikes. A new station was added for 2025 near Western Technical College’s campus.

The Republican party of Eau Claire is making a donation to the Eau Claire Police Department K-9 unit. The unit solely depends on donations to keep the unit afloat. The Republican party is donating one-thousand dollars to the unit. The K-9 unit has 2 dogs on the force right now. They are named Murphy and Monzo. CLICK HERE FOR MORE COVERAGE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

The day that many people in the City of Green Bay and State of Wisconsin have been waiting for is finally here. The City and State is ready to show everyone what Green Bay has to offer as the NFL Draft is getting ready to kick off. The NFL has many scheduled events for the weekend from parties to concerts. Fans are reminded that if they want to get into the NFL draft campus, they must register for a free

On Wednesday April 23rd, at approximately 10:33 AM the Eau Claire Fire Department was dispatched to a report of smoke and fire visible in an apartment at 920 Richard Dr. ECFD fire inspectors were first to arrive and reported little smoke but visible fire coming from a wall inside a second story apartment. Truck 5 was the first arriving fire crew, made entry, aggressively opened the walls and found heavy fire within the wall cavity extending to additional apartments. The

One of the teens accused of shooting his BB gun at moving cars got his case settled. Dominic Hepperle was charged last year when he was 17-years-old and had four total counts against him. Two people reported their cars were hit by someone shooting at cars. One of the people hit got some cuts on their face. Yesterday Hepperle was given a deferred agreement as part of a plea deal. As long as he follows the agreement and doesn’t commit

  A jury found a La Crosse man guilty in a human trafficking case. Drae Broadnax was accused of forcing a woman to come to La Crosse from Wausau and have sex with many men.  Broadnax had his bond revoked and will be sentenced on July 25th.

On April 20, 2025, at approximately 9:23pm, a Lake Hallie Police Officer responded to an  address in the 4000 block of 131st after the Chippewa County Communications Center received a  911 call from an individual, identified as Scott Brun, (59 years old from Lake Hallie). Brun gave  little information and quickly ended the phone call. The Officer was in full uniform and a  marked patrol vehicle, knocked on the front door with no response and knocked on the garage  door.