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Wisconsin is ending the week with nearly 17 hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said just over 16-hundred and 50 people are hospitalized, including 410 in the ICU. Those numbers are just about where the state was to begin the week. The Hospital Association, of course, doesn’t track the number of people hospitalized with the virus, compared to the number of people hospitalized because of it. Meanwhile, public health managers in Madison are telling people

It’s now Ambassador Tom Barrett. The U.S. Senate yesterday confirmed Milwaukee’s mayor as the new ambassador to Luxembourg. President Biden nominated Barrett for the post back in August, but he’s been waiting for an official vote. That vote came yesterday. Both Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin and Senator Ron Johnson helped move Barrett’s nomination forward. Barrett’s departure kicks-off a special election for Milwaukee mayor. That field is already crowded.

There’s another chance to remember the people lost or hurt in the attack on Waukesha’s Christmas Parade. Downtown Waukesha business owners are hosting a lantern walk tonight, from 6 til 8. Organizers say the idea is to bring ‘light and hope’ to the city’s downtown that has been so dark and sad since police say Darrell Brooks Jr. drove through the parade nearly  month ago. You can bring your own lantern, or there will be some for sale in downtown.

Governor Tony Evers is celebrating good news on the employment front.  The Department of Workforce Development released U.S. Labor Statistics today showing the state’s preliminary unemployment rate tied for a record-low three-percent in November.  That is down two-tenths of a percent from October.  The last time the jobless rate was as low as three-percent was in November of 2018. 

Expansion and new jobs are coming to Green Bay.  Georgia Pacific is planning to invest 500-million-dollars to build new equipment using air-dried-technology.  The construction project alone will utilize up to 500 workers.  The new paper machine is expected to be in operation in 2024.

Authorities in Hobart say a man involved in a standoff with police following a domestic incident is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.  Hobart police were called to an apartment on Centerline Drive for domestic disturbance yesterday.  A woman who said she was threatened by her boyfriend was able to escape after he fired a shot in the apartment.  A long standoff ensued with the police and after hours of no contact police used a drone and found the man

To help accommodate storm clean-up, the Green Waste Facility on Jeffers Road will be open on Friday and Saturday, December 17 and 18, 2021. City of Eau Claire residents may dispose of brush and smaller tree limbs at no cost by taking them to the brush site at 5710 Jeffers Road in Eau Claire the following days and times this week: Friday, December 17: 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.Saturday, December 18: 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. For size restrictions and

The Eau Claire Police Department has been notified Sex Offender Brandon A. Gaston DOB 05/12/1976 will bereleased from prison on December 21, 2021. Gaston will be under supervision by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC). Gaston’s previous convictions include: 2nd Degree Sexual Assault; Intimidate Victim/Threaten Force; Felony Bail Jumping(11/29/2012) Eau Claire CountyGaston will be residing at a DOC monitored residence in the 100 block of Randall Street in the City of EauClaire. The primary focus of Gaston’s DOC release plan

HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital is celebrating one year of success for the Maternity onto Motherhood (MOM) program, and the operation of western Wisconsin’s first breast milk depot and dispensary. In the first year, the MOM program has assisted nearly 60 percent of all families who delivered a baby at HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital. The program helps families navigate the physical, emotional and lifestyle changes that come with parenthood from conception to baby’s first birthday. Together, the care team and baby’s

Altoona has resources to help with storm clean up. You can see details below.