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If you are looking to celebrate the Halloween season in a unique way, an exhibit in Menomonie proves that scares come in all sizes! The Historic Halloween Haunted House Challenge is back. Twenty-eight haunted houses and stories were submitted last year and now the 2021 entries are on display at Rassbach Museum.! Local community members create a spooky, haunted and creepy looking house or building to make a Historic Halloween Haunted Village walk at the museum. Entries will be on

ABOVE PHOTO: YInMN, the first new inorganic pigment discovered in more than 240 years. Provided by Andrew Smith. Andrew Smith enjoys color and science, asking questions like, what causes color? How is color formed? How are pigments made? Combining his interests in graduate school at Oregon State University gave him a new perspective. “I started to understand what color was and how to manipulate it, which was no trivial task. And best of all, it led me into a career

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Foundation has received a $10 million gift, the largest investment in an endowed fund in the university’s history. This lead gift is helping launch the public phase of the Foundation’s Sustaining Human Innovation capital campaign.An anonymous donor on the Foundation’s board of directors announced their initial campaign gift to the Foundation at its recent annual meeting and as the board finalized plans for the $125 million capital campaign. The gift will create an endowed fund

Community members are encouraged to safely dispose of expired or unwanted medications during the National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. 70% of people who misuse prescription opioids got their first pill from a family member or friend. Help prevent misuse in our county by safely disposing of medication. This year’s event will be held on Saturday, October 23rd from 10am to 2pm in Altoona at the Police Department (1904 Spooner Ave) and in Eau Claire at Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire (curbside

Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce (WMC) – the combined state chamber and manufacturer’s association – and a coalition of business groups sent a letter to Gov. Evers urging him to launch a talent attraction campaign aimed at addressing Wisconsin’s workforce shortage. The letter calls on the governor to utilize $3 million in funds from the Wisconsin State Budget and additional money from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA).  WMC recommended the talent attraction campaign be modeled after the campaign launched in

Milwaukee Police do not know where three-year-old Major Harris is, but they believe they are piecing together what happened to his mother. Investigators say they’ve arrested several people in connection to Mallery Muenzenberger’s death. She’s from Onalaska, but police found her last Thursday at a home on Milwaukee’s north side, where she had been shot to death. Police say the main suspect in her death killed himself as officers closed in last weekend. No one is saying where her son

It could be next week before we know the suspect in this month’s attack on a young mom in De Pere. The D.A. in Brown County yesterday asked for an extension to file formal charges against the 17-year-old being held for the attack. A judge has ordered the teen held on one million-dollars bond and is allowing prosecutors to wait until next Thursday to file formal charges. The young man is accused of attacking a mom and her baby along

The investigation into Eau Claire County’s Department of Human Services is ramping up. The county’s sheriff this week served warrants to DHS managers as part of the ongoing look into finances at the department. Sheriff Ron Cramer said in a statement yesterday that DHS managers have not cooperated with the investigation. He said deputies have been hit with denials and delays. The sheriff started looking into DHS back in May of 2020 after reports of missing or misspent money started

Eau Claire is hoping to bring a new grocery store and apartment building downtown. The city’s Redevelopment Authority has given the green light for developers to build an apartment building with a grocery store on the first level in the empty parking lot near Phoenix Park off of Barstow Street. The plan calls for 190 new apartments upstairs, and a 98-hundred square foot store for the Menomonie Market Co-op.

Wisconsin’s latest round of building money includes cash for mental health projects in the Chippewa Valley. State Senator Kathy Bernier says some of the 124 million-dollars from the Wisconsin State Building Commission will mean more beds at local hospitals. Yesterday she said Sacred Heart Hospital and St. Joseph’s Hospital will be adding 22 new mental health beds for both adolescents and adults. That will bring the total number of mental health beds at HSHS 33 for adults, and 18 for teens and