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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

It looks like Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers are going-up. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday updated last week’s vaccine count, and increased the total. DHS now says over 99-thousand people got a shot. The original count was just over 64-thousand people. The change means more people got the shot than the week before. Wisconsin’s coronavirus vaccine numbers have been steadily falling since their peak in April. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

 Today is an opportunity to continue with a healthy part of your diet.  It’s National Eat Your Vegetables Day.  The food items your parents always made you eat can contain protein, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.  USDA Dietary Guidelines recommend eating three-to-five servings of veggies each day.  Vegetable day also falls in the middle of National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month.

The Wisconsin 4-H Foundation awarded Jesse Groell of Osseo, Wis. a $1,000 Oscar G. & Mary W. Woelfel Memorial Scholarship. Jesse has been in Wisconsin 4-H for 11 years, and is a member of the Russell Corner 4-H club in Eau Claire Countywhere he served as Treasurer. He won the Eau Claire County Leadership Award in 2018 and 2019, and participatedin the Wisconsin 4-H Livestock Skillathon contest. Jesse graduated from Osseo-Fairchild High School and plans to attend UW-River Falls to

The bodies of three Wisconsin brothers have been accounted for nearly 80 years after their deaths.  Sue Danielson reports: The Department of Defense confirmed Wednesday the three brothers hailed from New Lisbon, and were all serving on the USS Oklahoma at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.  The agency identified 21-year-old Navy Fireman 1st Class Leroy K. Barber and 22-year-old Malcolm J. Barber.  Randolph H. Barber was the youngest brother at only 19-years-old, and was a Navy Fireman 2nd

The state Assembly is set to debate Republican-sponsored bills attempting to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls and women’s sports.  On Wednesday the state Assembly will discuss the two-bill package requiring school districts K through 12, and higher education institutions to divide sports into three divisions based on sex: boys, girls and co-ed.  The proposal defines “sex” as the sex assigned at birth by a physician.  The legislation is part of a nationwide effort in more than 30 states