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The technical colleges in Madison and Milwaukee are using some of their coronavirus stimulus money to pay-off past due tuition costs. Milwaukee Area Technical College says it will spend nearly six-million-dollars to wipe out student debt. Madison Area Technical College last week said it would spend four-million-dollars of its stimulus money on the same thing. The money is only for costs for students who took classes in 2020 and 2021, and it doesn’t do anything to any student loans that

Former Milwaukee police chief Alfonso Morales is walking away from the city with 627-thousand-dollars. Milwaukee’s Common Council approved Morales’ wrongful termination settlement yesterday. The agreement spares Milwaukee from any further lawsuits from the former chief and allows the city to hire a new permanent police chief. Morales sued after he was pushed-out last summer. Morales is one of four finalists for the police chief’s job in Fitchburg.

The number of new coronavirus cases in Wisconsin is at its highest level since April. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 983 new cases, the highest number in four months. DHS says new case numbers are growing while vaccinations are flat-lining. Just 51-percent of people in the state have gotten at least one dose of the vaccine. So, what’s next? Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services usually abides by the CDC’s recommendations on the coronavirus and masks, so it’s likely just

Eau Claire County Treasurer, Glenda Lyons, would like to remind all Eau Claire County property owners thatthe final installment (commonly known as the second half or postponed amount) of the 2020 real estate taxesare due to the Eau Claire County Treasurer by July 31, 2021. Please include your payment stub(s) or indicate the parcel number(s) you are paying on your check, or in a separate memo, so we can apply your payment(s) correctly. CLICK HERE FOR ONLINE PAYMENT INFO.

The woman who nearly starved her dog to death back in 2019 will not go to jail. A judge in Menomonie yesterday sentenced Anne Iehl to two years probation. Iehl was convicted back in May of not feeding the dog, now named Gabriel. Animal rescuers say the dog weighed just 23 pounds when they found him. Iehl says she wasn’t financially stable enough to take care of the dog on her own. The dog is now with a new family,

More apartments are coming to Eau Claire. The city council last night okayed the plan to renovate the Campus View Inn & Suites and turn it into apartments. The old motel is across from HSHS Sacred Heart Hospital on Eau Claire’s south side. Developers are promising 87 apartments by next fall.

The search for the suspects in La Crosse County’s triple murder is shifting to the Green Bay area. La Crosse County Sheriff Jeff Wolfe yesterday identified Khamthanet Rattanasack and Nya Thao as suspects in last Friday’s killings. Two of the victims in the triple murder were also Asian. The sheriff is not saying why they believe the two are in or around Green Bay, but deputies say they should be considered armed and dangerous. No one is yet offering any

The Wisconsin National Guard is short about 10-million-dollars for paychecks, and commanders aren’t sure what’s going to happen. The guard last week said Congress has not yet reimbursed the National Guard Bureau for the massive troop deployment to Washington, D.C. earlier this year. The lack of federal reimbursement means the Guard Bureau has not sent Wisconsin the 10-million-dollars earmarked for paychecks through the end of September. Commanders in Wisconsin say they are looking at places and programs to cut because of the lack of money. Wisconsin Congressman Bryan

Governor Tony Evers’ veto of a bill to end federal jobless benefits will stand.   Wisconsin Assembly Republicans failed today in an attempt to override the governor’s veto, falling short of the two-thirds majority needed.  Opponents to maintaining the 300-dollars-a-week supplement from the federal government say it is an incentive not to work.  Supporters say it is money needed by Wisconsin families and ends up going back into the Wisconsin economy.  The payments are scheduled to stop in early September.

A rare sight is caught on camera in Vilas County.  Brothers Brandon and Kyle Busch War were heading back to Eagle River from vacation in northern Wisconsin when a pure white deer crossed Highway 51 right in front of them.  They snapped the picture before the deer wandered into the woods.  Officials with Protect the White Deer say about one in every 20-thousand deer is a white deer, which have been protected in the state since 1940.