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Two people are dead and several others are hurt after an apartment fire in Kenosha.  The fire department says the fire broke out Monday night at the Saxony Manor, an apartment complex for seniors.  The fire department says a man and woman died in the fire and five people were taken to the hospital, two in life-threatening condition.  Around a dozen other people are now without a place to live.  The cause of the fire hasn’t been determined.

Researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison are working on a coronavirus vaccine that will cover all strains of the virus.  The school recently got seven-million dollars in federal money to fund the research.  Researchers say the goal is for the vaccine to be able to train the immune system to fight off most coronaviruses, including the one causing the pandemic.  They say the vaccine is likely five years from being ready.

Gas prices are slowly on the rise in Wisconsin.  Triple-A says the average price for regular unleaded is three dollars and six cents per gallon, up four cents from last week and up seven cents from last month.  Some parts of Wisconsin are see gas prices go up quicker than others.  In Madison gas is up just three cents from last week, but in La Crosse gas has gone up ten cents since yesterday and nearly 20 cents since last month.

Today, Senate Bill 371, designating Colby the official state of cheese, had a public hearing in the Senate Committee on Government Operations, Legal Review and Consumer Protection. State Senator Kathy Bernier (R-Chippewa Falls)and Representative Donna Rozar (R-Marshfield), the authors of the bill, issued the following statement after the public hearing. “In just a few generations Colby has gone from a farm family recipe to world famous, driving America’s love for cheese and putting Wisconsin on the cheese making map”, Senator

Jurors in Chandler Halderson’s trial are getting back to work today.  Halderson is facing life in prison for allegedly killing, then dismembering his parent’s bodies last summer. The judge in the case paused the trial last week after Halderson tested positive for the coronavirus. Prosecutors are expected to finish their case in the next few days. It remains to be seen what kind of defense Halderson’s lawyers are planning.

Eau Claire Police say the woman who drove into a bar on Madison Street early Sunday morning was drunk. Officers arrested 26-year-old Maly Khang about 1 a.m. Sunday. She had just crashed her car into the Amber Inn Bar & Grill. Police say she had a child in her car at the time as well and was drinking at another bar before she headed-over to the Amber Inn.

 You can vote and join the military at age 18, and now one Wisconsin lawmaker wants to allow people to carry a gun at that age as well. Republican Shae Sortwell has a plan to lower the age for concealed carry permits down to 18. Right now you have to be 21 in order to legally carry a concealed weapon in Wisconsin. Sortwell says 18-year-olds are legally adults, and they should be treated as such.

 The latest coronavirus count in Wisconsin is over 35 thousand new cases. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the new cases push Wisconsin’s seven-day average to nearly 18 thousand cases-per-day. Nearly all of Wisconsin’s new coronavirus cases are omicron cases. Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization count dipped over the weekend. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just over 22 hundred people are in the hospital with the virus across the state. That includes 452 people in intensive care. Both of those numbers are down

Wisconsin lawmakers are once again looking to make Colby cheese the state’s official cheese. A state Senate panel will take-up the plan later this morning. Supporters say since Colby cheese was developed in Colby, Wisconsin, the state should recognize it as the true-Wisconsin-cheese that it is. But other lawmakers say Wisconsin produces so many different cheeses, that naming one the ‘official cheese,’ will be an insult to other cheesemakers. The plan has been floated in the past, but has always fallen short.

Researchers at UW-La Crosse will be spending a lot more time on the water in the next year or so. The university yesterday announced a gift that will pay for a new Mississippi River research vessel. The idea is to study the river and look at ways to maintain and protect the Mississippi. The half-million dollar gift will be used to build a custom boat for the university. Researchers say it will take a year-and-a-half to design and build, they