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As temperatures continue to drop and Daylight Savings Time comes to an end this weekend, the Health Departmentwants to remind residents to take action to prevent carbon monoxide poisoning. We “fall back” an hour on November 7. When you turn back your clocks, it’s a good time to put new batteries in your carbon monoxide detectors. “As colder weather arrives, we start seeing more carbon monoxide poisonings,” says Tate Zurbuchen, Environmental Health Specialist. “Now is the time for Eau Claire

The people in charge of elections in Wisconsin say they will answer the charges from a recent state audit next month.  Wisconsin Elections Commission Administrator Meagan Wolfe yesterday said the commission will present its answers to the report from the Legislative Audit Bureau. Wolfe says she wants to correct some ‘misconceptions and misunderstandings’ that came from the report. Wolfe continues to say last year’s election in Wisconsin was safe and secure. That audit led to a wave of Republican lawmakers to call for Wolfe to

 Drop the acting from Milwaukee Police Chief Jeffery Norman’s title. The city’s Fire and Police Commission yesterday named Norman as the city’s newest police chief. It wasn’t a surprise. FPC members have wanted Norman as chief for the past year, but needed to move former chief Alfonso Morales out of the way first. Norman was the only candidate for the job this time around. He says he wants to focus on changing the culture inside the Milwaukee Police Department.

A Barron County man is looking at decades in prison for killing his wife’s boyfriend last year. A jury on Wednesday convicted Andrew Brunette of Barron for shooting and killing Garrett Macone in September of last year. Macone was in a relationship with Brunette’s estranged wife. Police say Brunette shot Macone in the head while he slept. Brunette will be sentenced in January.

 It was not the best day for prosecutors in Kyle Rittenhouse’s trial. One of the prosecution’s own witnesses told jurors yesterday that one of the men who Rittenhouse shot and killed was being very aggressive, chased Rittenhouse down, and lunged at him on the night he got shot. Daily Caller videographer Richie McGinniss detailed the chase and the shooting, which he witnessed. He said the man who was shot was very angry and yelled at Rittenhouse as he lunged for

The search for a homicide suspect from northern Wisconsin ended in Racine County last night. Burlington Police arrested Derek Goplin last night after getting a tip that he was near the hospital there. Goplin is wanted for his mother’s stabbing death in Antigo last weekend and for abandoning his five-year-old son at a Waukesha County hotel earlier this week. He’s currently in the Racine County Jail, there’s no word when he will be sent north to face charges there.

Police in Chippewa Falls are giving the all-clear after an incident near Hillcrest Elementary School yesterday. Officers closed part of the road on the West Hill yesterday afternoon after getting a 9-1-1 call about a man in a truck who was talking about guns. Police say the man in the truck was having a mental health issue. They talked him out, found that he wasn’t armed, and deescalated the situation. The incident is under investigation, and there are no charges

Eau Claire may not have a new city manager by mid-January. The search committee tasked with finding a new city manager says people are still applying for the job, and they’re not sure they can complete interviews and such by January 15th. So far, the Recruitment Committee says 13 people have applied to be Eau Claire’s next city manager. City Council Vice President Catherine Emmanuelle says it will likely be a “little past” the mid-January deadline before they make their

WE Energies will stop using coal for its power plants earlier than first planned. The company yesterday said it will switch away from coal by 2035. WE Energies had previously said it would end its use of coal by 2050. The biggest change means the Oak Creek power plant will switch over to natural gas. WE Energies says it’s making the move to help the environment and get closer to its goal of zero carbon emissions by 2050.

Wisconsin is ending its week with a little more than 900 people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said there are 920 people hospitalized with the virus across the state. That’s up from the end of last week. Of them, 264 are in the ICU. The Hospital Association does not track how many people are hospitalized with the virus, as opposed to people who are hospitalized because of it. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.