Home

A new report shows 85 people lost their lives to domestic violence last year in Wisconsin. The report from End Abuse Wisconsin comes right before the end of Domestic Abuse Awareness Month this October. The ages of last year’s victims range from one year old to 84-years-old, and deaths occurred about once every four days.

For the first time in seven years, the Wisconsin Army National Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion (RRB) announced that it successfully met its annual recruiting target in 2024. In recent years, the tough recruiting environment has been shaped by national trends such as a strong economy, low unemployment, a pandemic and shifting attitudes toward military service. CLICK FOR MORE.

On Sunday, October 20th, 2024, at approximately 1:52pm, the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office and area fire departments were dispatched to a one vehicle crash with power lines down and a grass fire starting in the 10000 block of Olson Dr (County Highway Q), in the Township of Seymour. Upon arrival, the fire was quickly under control.  Eau Claire Energy also responded to assist with the downed power lines.  Deputies made contact with the driver and lone occupant of the

On Saturday, October 19, 2024 at about 5:50 PM, the Fairchild Police Department attempted a traffic stop on a person later identified as Kegan C Fogleson of Black River Falls. Fogleson immediately fled and a pursuit occurred in the Townships of Cleveland and Fairchild and the Village of Fairchild. During the pursuit, it was learned that Fogleson had a felony warrant for his arrest and he had caution indicators for violent tendencies. Fogleson drove at 70 mph in a residential

ABOVE PHOTO: UW-Stout’s mascot, Blaze, visits the Menomonie Culver’s, which will feature the custom flavor Blue Devil Food Cake on Friday, Oct. 25, to help celebrate homecoming. Ten percent of sales will be donated to the UW-Stout Student Emergency Fund. It’s homecoming week at University of Wisconsin-Stout, and Culver’s of Menomonie is joining the festivities with an exclusive Blue Devils-themed frozen custard flavor. Blue Devil Food Cake will be featured on Friday, Oct. 25, as the ButterBurger behemoth’s Flavor of

The nationwide meat and poultry recall is expanding.  The USDA is warning schools might have received the impacted products.  The BrucePac recall has now expanded to nearly 12-million pounds of ready-to-eat meat and poultry products over listeria concerns.  The list of recalled items is over 300-pages long and includes products sold at Wegmans, Trader Joe’s, Target, Walmart and many other retailers. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

Election Day isn’t for another two weeks, but voters across Wisconsin can start casting their ballots tomorrow. Early, in-person voting begins tomorrow in Wisconsin. Local clerks say they are ready for people to vote. Turnout is expected to be high this year. The Wisconsin Elections Commission said there should be more than two million voters in Wisconsin. The state is, of course, a battleground state in the race for the White House. But there are also races for the U.S.

No one is saying what started the fire in rural Eau Claire County that burned a couple of cabins and nearly 22 acres of land over the weekend. The fire started about 1 a.m. yesterday on some land near the Township of Clear Creek. By the time the fire was out, it burned three cabins, two out buildings, a large propane tank, and 22 acres. No one was hurt, but the fire did plenty of damage. Strum firefighters handled the

Olson Drive is open after firefighters closed it yesterday because of a crash and a fire. The crash knocked down a light pole, and the fire then burned in the woods. No one was hurt, but there was enough danger to move the sheriff’s office to close the road. In all, Olson was closed for about three hours. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE WITH WEAU 13 NEWS.

The owner of the brewery in Rice Lake that burned to the ground last week says she’s planning to rebuild. Dannyelle Moon says they lost everything when a fire tore through the Brewing Company. The fire also destroyed two other businesses in the same building. Moon says they have big plans to make a big comeback. Firefighters say a downed power line hit a gas line and sparked the fire. High winds then blew the fire through the rest of