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Downtown Eau Claire Incorporated (DECI), announces a free, new and all ages event(s) in downtown Eau Claire, the High Bridge Howl.  DECI has created this fun event to help with the daily stress many feel with the intention of liberating some of those stressors. It’s a collective gathering to set space and move through the conclusion of the year.  The inaugural event takes place on the evening October 17, 2024, coinciding with the Fall Hunter Supermoon and features the following

Some folks in the Chippewa Valley are waking-up to their first frost of the season. The National Weather Service is leaving a Frost Advisory in place for Barron, Polk, Rusk, Chippewa, Dunn, Eau Claire, and St. Croix Counties until 9 a.m. this morning. Forecasters say temperatures will dip low enough overnight to leave frost behind. The forecast is supposed to warm-up a bit this week, ahead of a cool down for the weekend. CLICK HERE FOR DETAILS FROM OUR LOCAL

Two people are recovering after a crash in rural Vernon County. The sheriff’s office says two cars collided at the intersection of Christiana, Coon, Jefferson and Viroqua in rural Westby on Saturday. Two people in one of the cars were hurt.  There’s no word about what caused the crash, or if anyone will be getting a ticket.

A new report says Wisconsin’s election managers have less wiggle room than election officials in other states. The report from the group Informing Democracy says Wisconsin law sets pretty strict limits on what the state’s 18-hundred local election managers can do. That, according to the report, is  a safeguard against election vulnerabilities. The report does say about 20-percent of Wisconsin’s county clerks have resigned or retired since the 2020 election, but those numbers are not out of line with what

The Wisconsin Supreme Court this week will hear arguments for just how far a governor can go with his veto powers. The liberal majority court is set to hear the challenge to Governor Tony Evers’ 400 year school funding veto. The governor used his veto powers to erase some numbers in the current budget, and turn a two-year school funding increase into a 400-year school funding increase. The Wisconsin Manufacturers & Commerce legal fund is arguing that Evers went way

It’s the latest sign of Spooky Season. Field of Screams, the Chippewa Valley’s haunted trail, will open next week. The trail will be at the  Rockin’ T-R Ranch in Eau Claire, and the Pleasant Hills 4H Club will help with this year’s fights. The trail opens Saturday, and will then be open Thursdays through Saturdays, until its final day on October 26th and you can GET THE DETAILS AND PLAN YOUR VISIT TO SCREAM WITH AND EASY CLICK HERE.

A Wisconsin rescue team is back home from North Carolina after helping with recovery efforts following Hurricane Helene. Sixteen members of Wisconsin Task Force One arrived at Volk Field Air National Guard Base on Saturday. The team brought supplies for victims, such as inflatable boats, life jackets and protective gear. The team manager said if needed, they’ll return to North Carolina. At last report, the death toll from the storm is at 227.

The Food and Drug Administration is revising a previous egg recall. The CDC announced the original recall September 6th, but it’s now been revised to a class one recall, a commodity that “will cause serious adverse health consequences or death.” The first recall issued said 65 people in nine states were sick with salmonella connected to eggs supplied by Milo’s Poultry Farms LLC from May 23rd to August 10th. There have been no deaths reported but 24 individuals were hospitalized,

Hello. Thank you for starting your weekend with us. We are glad you’re here! Looks like it’s time to sink into our first full October weekend and Mother Nature has been dishing out some beautiful weather. As the leaves start to turn and we soak up Fall, the days can fill up fast with tasks and to-do’s…and let’s face it, though we love Autumn in Wisconsin, many of us are wondering how we got to this part of the year

Two motorcyclists are dead and a third is hospitalized after a crash in Buffalo County.  Authorities say it happened Friday morning shortly after 10:30, when a truck crossed the centerline and struck their motorcycles. The victims who died have both been identified as 59-year-old men from Minnesota.  The third motorcyclist was identified as a 69-year-old man Minnesota and police say he suffered minor injuries.  The truck driver is a 34-year-old from Alma and authorities say he was uninjured.  There’s no