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A new community COVID-19 testing site is beginning on Saturday, September 25th at Jacob’s Well Church(3211 N 50th Ave, Lake Hallie, WI) in northern Eau Claire County. Drive-thru testing is FREE for residents. “This new site will provide an additional location for residents in northwestern Wisconsin to access COVID-19 testing,” says Aimee Wollman Nesseth, Coordinator for the NW Wisconsin Healthcare Emergency Readiness Coalition. Northwest WI Community Testing Site Hours• Saturdays: September 25th & October 2nd from 11:00am-6:00pm• Monday, September 27th

A popular exit off of Highway 53 will temporarily close for lighting repairs. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation will close the exit ramp 86 tunnel at the Highway 12 and 53 interchange. The ramp will close on September 27th, and will reopen on Friday, October 15th. New LED lights will be installed as part of Wisconsin’s DOTs retrofit program.

A new Hy-Vee will open in Eau Claire in a week. To help make checkout easier, a new app called Hy-Vee Scan and Go will allow customers to scan items as they shop. You can check out on your phone and bring your own bag or go to the Scan and Go area located in the store and scan a QR code to complete your purchase. The new Hy-Vee will open on Claremont Avenue on September 28th.

Fall colors are starting to appear in Eau Claire.  Travel Wisconsin’s fall report predicts Eau Claire County’s leaves will peak around the third week of October.  It’s the first day of fall today.

The man accused of killing the four people found dead in Dunn County says he snapped. Prosecutors in Minnesota yesterday filed second-degree murder charges against 38-year-old Antoine Suggs. He told police he snapped when he killed the four earlier this month, but there are not any other specifics. Suggs’ father, Darren Osborne, is looking at charges here in Wisconsin for hiding the four bodies in a cornfield in Dunn County. Investigators say they linked Suggs to the killings because they found his

An Eau Claire man won’t be going to prison for trying to run down his ex-girlfriend and her mother back in July. A judge sentenced 28-year-old Henri Leavesseur to four years probation. Police say he tried to hit the two women with his truck. Part of his probation requires him to stay sober and stay away from the ex and her mother. Leavesseur had been in jail since his arrest in July.

It was a tornado that knocked down a barn at a home in Trempealeau County Monday night. The National Weather Service yesterday confirmed a tornado touched down just south of Strum. Forecasters say it was an EF-0 tornado with wind speeds of up to 105 miles-per-hour. The tornado was part of a line of strong and severe storms that cut across the state Monday. There are no reports of any injuries.

The latest lawsuit over Wisconsin’s wolf hunt is coming from the state’s tribes. Six Native American nations yesterday filed a lawsuit to try and stop the hunt which is scheduled for November. The tribes say the hunt violates treaties with the government going back to the 1800’s. Those treaties guaranteed the tribes half of the state’s wolf quota. Tribal leaders say they now want to protect the wolves from hunters.

The end of the enhanced federal unemployment benefits has some people heading back to restaurants and shops, but Wisconsin businesses are going to be looking at a worker shortage for a while to come.  Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce’s Kurt Bauer yesterday said Wisconsin didn’t have enough workers before the coronavirus, and the state doesn’t have enough workers now. He says that extra 300 dollars-per-week didn’t help things. Bauer said manufacturers in Wisconsin continue to need workers, but the good news is that almost all of them are

Wisconsin’s hospitals say over a thousand people are in the hospital with the coronavirus. The state’s Hospital Association updated its numbers yesterday. Of the more than a thousand people hospitalized with the virus, 322 are in the ICU. That’s about where Wisconsin’s hospitalization numbers have been for the past week. Doctors continue to urge people to get their coronavirus shots. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.