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 The average price for regular gas is up three-cents-a-gallon statewide over the last week.  Triple-A says the price at the pump in Wisconsin is 2.75-cents a gallon today.  That’s 13 cents below the national average of two-88.  Regular gas is two-67-a-gallon in Appleton, two-66 in Fond du Lac, two-72 in Madison and two-74 in Green Bay.  Drivers are paying two-dollars-and-77-cents in Kenosha County and La Crosse and 2.75 in Eau Claire. 

University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Katherine Frank urged state leaders Thursday, April 22, to support $5.6 million to allow the university to begin planning and design work for a Heritage Hall renovation. “We have been requesting funding to support planning and design towards eventual renovation since 2009, and the work simply cannot wait any longer,” Frank told the Joint Finance Committee during a public hearing held at UW-Stout’s Memorial Student Center. “Heritage Hall is one of our largest academic buildings, serving approximately one-third

Zoom! Before COVID-19, it meant going fast. Now, it means so much more! For this weeks’ Friday Feel Good, we head into the ZOOM classroom. Click below to hear more with Morgan McCarthy: This happened in January, but the video’s just going viral:  A high school biology teacher in Maryland named Wendy Franklin was doing a Zoom class, and realized all her students were muted with their cameras off.  So she was confused for a second, until one of them spoke up

Pills that you no longer need now have a safe place to go…other than the back of your closet. The National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day will be held on Saturday, April 24th from 10am to 2pm at the Altoona Police Department and Marshfield Medical Center – Eau Claire. National Prescription Drug Take-Back days increase the awareness of safe medication disposal locations in Eau Claire County. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LOCAL INFO. Residents are encouraged to safely dispose of expired or

Fishing season is just a week away.   Wisconsin’s fishing season opener is May 1st.  The state department of natural resources says musky season doesn’t start until the end of May, and smallmouth bass must stay in the water until June 19th.  Kids 15-and-under can fish for free, but everyone else needs a license.

Eau Claire’s city parks are going green.  The city introduced organic fertilizing and treatment methods at Phoenix Park yesterday.  The City says they’ll no longer use Roundup on playground areas and weeds will be removed with an organic product instead of pesticides.

Nobody is hurt after a fire in a residence hall at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.  The Eau Claire Fire Department says the fire was reported in the basement trash room at Oakridge Hall around midnight Thursday.  The fire was put out quickly, although some students may have been a bit more tired for their morning classes.

Police recover stolen property from a local school district after two people tried to run from officers and were arrested yesterday.  Altoona police say 37-year-old Nathan Stevens and 29-year-old Brandolyn Charles were arrested for drugs and resisting arrest among several other charges.  Police say they found the stolen school property while searching Stevens during an arrest that he tried to resist, and he damaged the inside of the squad car.  Police say both Stevens and Charles were believed to be

Authorities say a man from Bloomer who is not supposed to have any guns had 40 of them, plus a lot of bullets and cash. Police arrested Leonard Peil at his home Wednesday. Peil is a convicted felon and barred from having any weapons. Investigators say in addition to the 49 guns, they found a thousand rounds of ammunition, and over 30-thousand-dollars in cash. He’s now looking at a slew of weapons charges.

The series of crashes along I-41 in Washington County was worse than first thought. Washington County Sheriff Martin Shulteis yesterday said 100 cars and trucks were involved in crashes during Wednesday’s snow. One person died, and six people were taken to the hospital because of the wrecks. The sheriff says Wednesday’s crashes were one of the most difficult things he’s ever had to deal with because of the size, scope, and difficulty of responding in the snow.