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The State Health Department reports 116 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours.  That pushes a total number of cases to nearly 600-thousand-630.  Today’s cases are the fewest confirmed in a single day in more than a year.  There were no additional deaths reported today which maintains the death toll at 69-hundred-and-58.

Many Wisconsin families will soon be receiving monthly payments to help with childcare.  Families will get up to 300-dollars a month per child as part of President Biden’s coronavirus relief package.  Payments of 300-dollars a month will be for children under six-years-old and up to 250-dollars-a-month for children between the ages of six and 17.  Couples earning less that 150-thousand-dollars will receive the full payment for each child on the 15th of every month until at least the end of

The first distillery to produce its own spirits in Green Bay will soon open to the public.  Paradise North Distillery on Bay Beach Road opens on Thursday.  It will make and sell handcrafted spirits like rum, vodka and whiskey.  The distillery will also offer tastings, tours and host a variety of events.

A Bucky Badger statue is missing from its perch in Middleton.  Police say sometime Saturday night the statue was cut at its feet and carried off.  Because it weighs several hundred pounds police believe a group of people were involved in stealing the statue.  Anyone with information on the whereabouts of the Bucky Badger statue is asked to call Middleton Police.

A drug bust involves 9 people in Dunn County. As a result of a nearly three month long distribution of methamphetamine investigation, which included the serving of five search warrants throughout Dunn County, the following items were seized:Nearly 270 grams of methamphetamine3.6 grams of cocaine1.5 grams of psilocybin mushrooms1 firearm 58 year old Richard Lee Skramstad, 58 years of age, has been charged with the following crimes base onhis involvement and is being held at the Dunn County Jail on

Do you live in the Randall Park, North River Fronts, Upper Westside or Westridge neighborhoods? Beginning on May 24th, you may see Health Department staff completing the Residential Environmental Quality Assessment (REQA) housing survey to assess the environmental quality of your neighborhood. All residential properties within the City of Eau Claire are surveyed once every five years. The city has been divided into five areas and each summer a trained Health Department surveyor preforms the survey. For a map of

It’s tax filing day. The I-R-S and the state pushed back the filing deadline this year to help people in Wisconsin affected by the pandemic. Extension requests can still be made online. Taxpayers can still e-file state returns online, too.

Fire danger is still high across the state. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources fire danger map shows most of Northern and Northwestern Wisconsin under a high or very high risk for fire. Eau Claire County is under a moderate risk for fire. It’s been much drier than usual in Wisconsin this year. There’s a chance of thunderstorms this week.

There have already been double the amount of fatal ATV accidents in Wisconsin this year compared to the year before. The state department of natural resources says most of the 12-accidents have involved drivers using roads and highways instead of trails, and the others were safety related. They say most others weren’t wearing a helmet.

It took about a dozen firefighters to rescue a biker who fell off of Grandad Bluff in La Crosse. It happened about 8 p.m. Saturday evening. Firefighters say the man fell and was injured. Rope teams were called-in and had to go down the steep bluff to rescue him.