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Statistics released by the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development shows the state’s unemployment rate unchanged over the last month.  According to today’s data the unemployment rate for Wisconsin remains at April’s rate of three-point-nine-percent.  About 34-hundred private-sector jobs were added statewide last month. 

The first new paper mill to be built in Wisconsin in three decades is now open.  Green Bay Packaging cut the ribbon today on its new 500-million-dollar facility.  It replaces the original mill, which was built in 1947.  Officials say the new paper mill has many environmental improvements including switching from coal to natural gas for operation.

Local advocates for the Eau Claire Area School District will be present at 500 Main Street in Eau Claire at 9:00 AM on Monday, June 21 support Day of Action. This is a statewide event designed to urge legislators to improve funding for local students and implore others to communicate on the state education budget. Public school advocates will be joined by district school administration, school board members, parents, staff, and concerned citizens to call on legislators to pass a

It’s going to be the next test of the shortage of workers. Summerfest managers say they need two-thousand temporary workers this year. There is a job fair planned for next weekend. Summerfest is offering free tickets and food vouchers in addition to a paycheck and benefits for all workers. Many businesses across Wisconsin are having trouble finding workers this summer. Many of them say generous unemployment benefits are keeping entry level workers at home.

Republicans in the state Assembly have passed a pair of bills that restrict how trans women can take part in high school and college sports. The bill’s author, Republican Barb Dietrich, says the bill would create a separate but equal co-ed branch of youth sports that trans women would be allowed to participate in. CLICK HERE FOR MORE 715 NEWSROOM COVERAGE FROM JON DEMASTER: Governor Evers is unlikely to sign the bill, but Dietrich says it’s important to challenge Democrats on

The plan is to have a normal semester at UW-Eau Claire in the fall. Just what that will look like remains to be seen. Vice Chancellor Grace Crickette yesterday said they are still talking about how to get back to campus life like it was before the coronavirus. Summer school students at the university are still required to wear a mask, and there are still coronavirus tests. Crickette says UW-Eau Claire isn’t going to require anyone to get the coronavirus

The huge ice chunk that fell out of the sky and into an Elk Mound home has scientists at UW-Eau Claire stumped. A team is looking to see just what is inside the 12-pound piece of ice that crashed through a couple’s roof last month. The piece of ice is called a megacryometeor. But no one knows just where it came from. The UW-EC team says they think it came from the upper atmosphere, but they are not sure where

Wisconsin’s governor says he will sign a new slate of police reforms, including a ban on chokeholds, but he also wants more. The state Assembly yesterday approved a series of reforms that came from a state task force. Along with the ban on chokeholds, lawmakers okayed new rules for use of force, a study on the use of no-knock warrants, and requirements for mental health exams before police officers are hired and mandatory drug tests after officer-involved shootings. Governor Evers

There’s talk of lawsuits over the plan to delay the drawing of Wisconsin’s new political map. The state Assembly yesterday approved a proposal to push-back the start of redistricting until February of next year. Lawmakers were supposed to start to redraw the political map this spring, but Republicans want to wait until they have the new Census numbers. Democratic state Rep. Gordon Hintz yesterday said the delay is unnecessary and likely unconstitutional. Republicans say they are trying to make the best

Madison’s mayor wants to use about four-and-a-half-million-dollars of the city’s stimulus money for bonuses for most city workers. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway yesterday said the plan is to offer non-union city workers a 22-hundred-dollar bonus. The American Rescue Plan rules allow the stimulus money to be spent on ‘essential’ city workers, but that may not include the people who Rhodes-Conway wants to pay. Many city of Madison workers have spent the past year working from home, and that would make them