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There’s a clean-up underway in the Menomonee River in Milwaukee. Heavy equipment-maker Komatsu yesterday confirmed that its crews spilled 400 gallons of oil into a storm drain that goes into the river last week. Originally the company thought it was just a small spill, but now says it was much larger than first thought. The company says crews are cleaning the oil out of the river. Wisconsin’s DNR and the EPA are monitoring the clean-up effort.

The Eau Claire Police Department has been notified Sex Offender Bradley S. Gallentine DOB 05/14/1958 will be released from prison on December 14, 2021. Gallentine will be under supervision by the Wisconsin Department of Corrections (DOC). Gallentine’s previous convictions include: 2nd Degree Sexual Assault (01/18/2008) Eau Claire County Repeated Sexual Assault Of Same Child (07/01/2008) Eau Claire CountyGallentine will be residing at a DOC monitored residence in the 100 block of Randall Street in the City of EauClaire. The primary

A snow emergency for the City of Marshfield will be in effect starting Friday (9 p.m.), December 10th, 2021 and will remain in effect until 4 p.m. Saturday, December 11th , 2021. The snow emergency will allow the Street Division to complete all snow and ice removal operations. When a snow emergency is in effect, parking on City of Marshfield streets and alleys is prohibited.

The traveling public is reminded to exercise caution and drive with care. Clearing a small patch to see through a windshield or rear window is not enough. In winter weather, the driving hazard that’s even worse than snow and ice is your inability to see what’s ahead. To help with visibility remember to clear snow and ice from the headlights and hood of your vehicle. Be careful and go slow. Use courtesy and common sense. The legal speed limit may

Winter! We remember how this goes in Wisconsin…with school delays, closings, and snow shoveling…oh my! There are some changes to “normal schedules” that you can see below. For a full list of closings and delays from WEAU 13 NEWS, CLICK HERE.

Police in Green Bay are trying to figure out if three shootings yesterday are related, or are related to other recent shootings in the city. All three shootings happened within an hour of each other last night. No one was hurt in any of the shootings. Investigators are not saying if they are related, though they did all happen in the same area of the city. Police are asking anyone who knows anything to please come forward.

 Wisconsin’s state superintendent is telling the Republicans who wrote the state budget that they’ve lost the ‘game of chicken’ over millions of dollars in money for schools that stayed open last year. Superintendent Jill Underly wrote a defiant letter to the heads of the legislature’s budget writing panel yesterday. She blamed them for a standoff over 77 million-dollars in coronavirus money for schools, accused them of not following the law, and accused them of playing politics. Underly’s letter is in

 Tuition is going-up for some UW students. University regents yesterday gave the green light to tuition increases for out-of-state and graduate students at UW-Madison, UW-Eau Claire, UW-Oshkosh, UW-Platteville, UW-River Falls, UW-Stout, and UW-Whitewater. Regents will take the official vote on the plan to raise out-of-state student tuition by 743 dollars today.  Right now, out-of-state students pay about 39 thousand-dollars a year for tuition at UW-Madison, compared to the nearly 11 thousand-dollars in tuition for in-state students.

College students in Wisconsin are going to have to continue to bring a valid ID with them when they vote. A federal judge in Madison yesterday upheld Wisconsin’s voter ID law for college students. The lawsuit wanted to change some of the requirements for what’s considered a valid college ID. But the judge said college student IDs are no different than other forms of ID, and should not be held to a different standard.

Wisconsin is ending the week with over 16 hundred people in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association yesterday said the numbers haven’t changed much this week. There continue to be over 400 people in ICU’s across the state. Wisconsin’s coronavirus hospitalization numbers are up by over 160 people from last week. The Hospital Association does not track who is hospitalized with the virus, as opposed to those who are hospitalized because of it.