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Hy-Vee is now offering walk-in COVID-19 shots in Wisconsin. The company’s website says vaccines are available at all Hy-Vee Pharmacies, no appointment necessary. It’s offering all three available vaccines: Pfizer, Moderna, and Johnson and Johnson. HyVee is asking people to bring a photo I-D and wear a mask.

Chippewa Falls police are holding a K-9 fundraising raffle. Tickets are being sold at 100-dollars each through the summer. Only 100-tickets will be sold. The grand prize winner could get 25-hundred-dollars. Tickets can be purchased at the police department.

The public is being informed of a sex offender being released and living in the area. 43 year old Leo Lacy is convicted of 2 counts of Aggravated Criminal Sexual Assault – Will County Illinois Per his release plan, Lacy will now be living at S15554 Williams Road, Strum. Lacy served a 9-year sentence in an Illinois prison, his victim was an adult female, and he is being released to live with family. Lacy’s release requirements include:• lifetime registration as

Eau Claire is going to lose money collecting yard scraps, even with higher fees. The city council last night agreed to take over brush collections this year. It will cost 116-thousand-dollars to run the program for 30 weeks. Community Services Director Renee Tyler says the city expects to lose about 50-thousand-dollars in the process. You’re going to have to pay a bit more for collections as bag fees are going up 50 cents to a dollar-per-bag. You can also buy

Students and faculty members at UW-Eau Claire are going to have to keep wearing their masks, despite what the CDC says. The university yesterday said it is not changing its mask policy as of now. The CDC yesterday said anyone who is fully vaccinated can ditch their mask in most outdoor settings. The university requires everyone on campus to wear masks, both inside buildings and on the rest of the campus. UW-Eau Claire’s Mike Knuth says they are ‘reviewing’ the

We will take a look at the public health picture here in Wisconsin. Nearly two million people in Wisconsin are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. The state’s Department of Human Services says just over 600 of them have tested positive for COVID. DHS released the numbers on post-vaccination positives yesterday. The 605 positives amount to point-zero-three percent of all people who are fully vaccinated in the state. Doctors say the numbers are expected, they say no vaccine is 100 percent effective. CLICK

Police officers, firefighters, and other first responders in Wisconsin will now have a much easier path to workers’ compensation for PTSD. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed a new law that eliminates the requirement that first responders prove their PTSD came from ‘unusual stress’ on the job. The new law simply requires that first responders be diagnosed with PTSD to qualify. Benefits will last for 32 weeks, and the new law caps first responders to three claims during their entire career.

Outside of a few broad promises, no one really knows how Wisconsin will spend its three billion-dollars in stimulus money. Governor Tony Evers yesterday said he doesn’t know either. The governor said he will deliver details on just where the money will go in the next couple of weeks. Republicans at the Capitol say the governor has issued some press releases, but doesn’t have a plan. The governor has said he wants to spend the money on people and businesses impacted by

Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says his investigation into sexual abuse complaints in the Catholic Church in Wisconsin will cover all claims, no matter how old. Kaul announced the investigation yesterday, he told church leaders about it a week ago. Kaul plans to look into each of Wisconsin’s five church dioceses, including the Archdiocese of Milwaukee. Kaul says he is moving forward ‘for the victims.’ Church leaders say they are worried about what this new investigation may do to those victims. CLICK HERE FOR

Republicans at the Wisconsin Capitol are not letting-up in their push to reform the state’s elections. An Assembly committee yesterday held a hearing on several plans that supporters say will close the loopholes that were exploited last fall. Green Bay state Rep. David Steffen says something must be done to restore trust in Wisconsin’s electoral process. He says, at best, less than half of voters trust the election system. His plan deals specifically with absentee ballots, and making sure voters actually fill them