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This weekend is Free Fishing Weekend in Wisconsin and the Department of Natural Resources is offering some ice fishing tips.  The DNR reminds anglers to dress warm and always assume no ice is 100 percent safe.  The DNR says even though fishing licenses aren’t required this weekend size and bag limits are still in effect.  After this weekend fishing licenses cost 20 dollars a year. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DNR

A Helping hand can make all the difference sometimes. Whether you are the one who has fallen on hard times and someone lends one, or you see someone in need and reach out to lift them up.  For this week’s Friday Feel Good we take a minute to dish up a story about a restaurant owner who is going well beyond filling the food orders that his customers have.  The restaurant in Texas is making headlines for serving free meals to anyone, with

In-person visits at Wisconsin prisons are suspended because of coronavirus.  The Wisconsin Department of Corrections says visitors won’t be allowed in Wisconsin prisons until at least early February.  There is an exception for religious reasons and emergency workers, but visitors will need to test negative for coronavirus before entering a prison.  The Department of Corrections says about six percent of prisoners in the state have the virus.

A Madison man accused of killing a woman over the summer is headed to trial.  On Thursday a judge ruled there’s probable cause for Gregg Raether to go to trial.  He’s accused of killing Patricia McCollough back in July and using her food stamp benefits after her death.  McCollough’s body wasn’t found until September.  Raether’s charged with reckless homicide.

Authorities in St. Croix County say alcohol was a factor in a deadly wreck there.  It happened just after midnight yesterday near St. Joseph Township.  The sheriff’s office says 34-year-old Bridget Clifton died when a pickup truck driver smashed into her minivan.  Investigators say the truck driver, 39-year-old Benjamin Blietz, showed signs of impairment.  The St. Croix County District Attorney’s Office is now weighing possible homicide charges in the case.

There’s a lawsuit over one of the scrapped designs for the Sonnentag Center.  Southside Holdings and Big River Education Center are suing the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, they say because the Foundation canceled their plans for a development next to the new center.  The two sold a piece of property to the university, which they say was part of a deal to allow them to develop the old Student Transit Center property.  That property is now going to become a parking

The Wisconsin National Guard is taking on a new role, as nurses in hospitals and nursing homes across the state.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday announced plans to send more than 200 troops to hospitals and care facilities across the state.  The soldiers are being trained as certified nursing assistants.  The move comes as Wisconsin saw another day of spiking coronavirus hospitalizations.  Roughly 22-hundred people are in the hospital with the virus at the weeks end.

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.