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The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is sharing a few grim statistics to end National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week, and encourage safe driving habits. They say 59-road workers have died, more than five-thousand-people have been hurt, and more than 13-thousand-crashes have happened in the past five years in Wisconsin work zones. This week, traffic safety officials have been encouraging slower speeds through work zones and asking drivers to watch for road workers.

 A new Hy-Vee store is coming to Eau Claire and it’ll include a restaurant owned by a famous actor. Wahlburger’s will be inside the grocery store on East Clairemont Avenue. Volume One reports Mark, Donnie, and Paul Wahlberg opened their first burger restaurant in Boston ten years ago, and the restaurants have expanded nationwide.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is earning quite a following on TikTok. The department makes short videos showing fishing tricks, views of state parks, animals found in Wisconsin and sometimes weather warnings. The account has more than 62-thousand-followers. You can follow the Wisconsin D-N-R on TikTok WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

Beginning in early to mid-May, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) plans to treat 14 western Wisconsin counties for gypsy moth. Residents can expect to see and hear loud, low-flying planes as early as sunrise. Small, yellow planes will be treating for invasive gypsy moth caterpillars. These non-native pests defoliate many kinds of trees and plants during their caterpillar stage, causing tree stress and potentially tree death. In an attempt to slow their spread, treatment efforts

The reward is now up to three thousand-dollars for information about whoever shot and killed more than a dozen kittens in Dunn County. The sheriff’s office yesterday said they found two more dead kittens, bringing the total to 17 that were shot. Dunn County Humane Society’s Jamie Wagner says the dead kittens were found with six live cats about a mile from where nearly 30 others were found on Tuesday. Wagner says someone called in a tip about the latest

You are going to have to keep wearing your mask in Eau Claire. City-County Health Director Lieske Giese yesterday said she’s not ready to end Eau Caire’s mask requirement. Giese says people continue to test positive for the coronavirus. City Council President Terry Weld says he and the other council members are likely going to listen to Giese about the mask mandate. People in Eau Claire are required to wear masks both inside and out, likely until further notice.

About 36 percent of people in Eau Claire County are now fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. But that’s about where the numbers have been for the past week or so. The county says they’ve hit a vaccine plateau. Health Director Lieske Giese says they are trying to make it as easy as possible for people to get the shot. Giese says there are plenty of walk-in clinics open across Eau Claire. Follwing some more of the data we see that

A pair of Wisconsin farmers want to know why they can’t apply for farm loan forgiveness under President Biden’s stimulus package. Calumet County farmer Adam Faust and Crawford County farmer Christopher Baird are part of a lawsuit that challenges the program based on race. Their suit says the Biden Administration’s loan forgiveness program applies only to non-white farmers. They are challenging that. Faust says the economic impact from the coronavirus didn’t hurt one race more than another as far as agriculture goes.

Doctors and nurses across Wisconsin have had to toss thousands of coronavirus vaccine doses. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said 45 hundred doses have been thrown-out so far. While 45 hundred doses may sound like a lot, it’s actually about one-tenth of one-percent of the over four million doses handed-out since December. DHS says nearly 43 percent of people in the state have gotten one dose of the vaccine, another 33 percent have gotten both doses.

Wisconsin is getting ready to purge its voter rolls. The Wisconsin Elections Commission this week agreed to begin the process of removing more than 180 thousand people from voter registration lists across the state. Anyone who hasn’t voted in four years will get a postcard from the Elections Commission, and anyone who doesn’t respond to the card will be removed. The purge comes after the Elections Commission fought a move to remove some voters before last year’s elections. Lawmakers in Madison say this