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Residents of the Chippewa Valley area will be able to enroll in the Transportation Security Administration’s TSA PreCheck® application program inside Chippewa Valley Regional Airport (EAU) from Monday, Aug. 9 through Friday, Aug. 13. The temporary enrollment center will be held in north end of the airport terminal. In response to the coronavirus, cleaning protocols have been increased on high-touch surfaces including door handles, keyboards, counters and chairs. Staff will sanitize their hands between each customer interaction and disinfect surfaces

Effective Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, face coverings are expected indoors for employees, students and guests, regardless of vaccination status at UW-Eau Claire and UW-Stout. CLICK HERE FOR MORE.

Based on evidence collected by Deputies, and calls from the public, 61 year-old Barbara Wiedenbeck ofEleva was arrested on August 4, 2021 for hit and run, causing injury in this case. CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL CASE REPORT The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office would like to thank those that called with information. Nofurther details will be released at this time.

 The CDC is putting out a new eviction moratorium as the Delta variant of coronavirus spreads across the country.  The order applies to counties experiencing high levels of community transmission and expires October 3rd.  The health agency argued the moratorium will allow more time “for rent relief to reach renters and to further increase vaccination rates.”

The nation’s unemployment lines are a little shorter.  Four-hundred-thousand Americans filed first-time claims for jobless benefits last week.  That’s 24-thousand fewer than the previous week’s revised total.  Most experts had forecast about 370-thousand first-time claims.

Milwaukee Police may be looking at a staffing crisis. The city’s police officers’ union yesterday said they are nearly 200 officers short right now, and another 100 or so could retire soon. Milwaukee Police Association President Dale Bormann says a lot of officers simply don’t want to deal with the abuse they get, and said many don’t feel supported. Milwaukee says 87 of those open sports are for patrol officers, and the rest are for higher ranking officers. Milwaukee’s Fire

We are waiting for more details about a murder-for-hire plot in Oshkosh. Police say they arrested a 39-year-old woman on Tuesday for trying to hire a hitman. Police will not say who the woman is, who she was trying to have killed, or how they became aware of the case. Investigators are asking anyone who may know anything about the crime to contact them.

On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at about 3:55pm, Lake Hallie Officers and the Chippewa Fire District were dispatched to Highway 124 North at Highway 29 East in the Village of Lake Hallie WI for a report of an apparent attempted suicide. Officers arrived on scene and determined that a male subject had jumped from the Highway 29 overpass onto Highway 124 and was severely injured. The investigation determined that a (20-year-old) male from Chippewa Falls had intentionally jumped, telling a

Hundreds of thousands of people who have not voted in years in Wisconsin are being moved on the inactive voter list. The Wisconsin Elections Commission yesterday announced it has deactivated 205-thousand voters. Most did not respond to a postcard asking if they still wanted to vote, while others simply moved. While the voters are now on the inactive list, they will remain on Wisconsin’s voting rolls. State Rep. Janel Brandtjen, who is leading an elections investigation in the Assembly, questions whether it is wise to

Chippewa Valley Technical College’s latest share of the state’s stimulus money is just over a million-and-a-half dollars. The school yesterday said it is getting one-point-seven-million to expand dual-enrollment classes for students across the Chippewa Valley. CVTC President Sunem Beaton-Garcia says the focus will be on students in rural and underserved parts of the state. CVTC is looking to offer classes in both business management and the healthcare field. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM CVTC.