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The FBI is helping with the investigation into a missing woman whose remains were found on the Menominee Indian Reservation. Investigators yesterday said the remains found earlier this month belong to Katelyn Kelley. She’s been missing since last June. There’s no word as to how she died. The FBI and tribal police say their investigation is on-going.

Eau Claire could soon be getting some new riverfront homes. The city council is set to vote tonight on a proposal to turn the empty land along the river at Birch and Galloway streets into a housing development. The plan calls for a mix of apartments, condos, and duplexes. The developer, Rykey Properties, says it’d cost 17- million-dollars to build the new homes. Eau Claire city council member Andrew Werthmann says it’s just the kind of development the city needs.

The temperature is rising outside, but the rivers in Eau Claire are still plenty cold. The city’s fire department yesterday warned about cold water and the danger to anyone who falls in. Deputy Chief Allyn Bertrang says the water temperature in some places is still only 40 degrees, cold enough to cause hypothermia for anyone who goes into the water.

There is a chance that Wisconsin could see one-million people fully vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next week or so. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said over a million people have already gotten one dose. Wisconsin gave out over 300-thousand vaccine doses last week, and many of those were second doses. DHS expects to give-out nearly the same number of doses this week. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS. As time goes on, questions arise. There are calls to take

There is a plan at the Wisconsin Capitol to take stimulus checks that are headed for convicted criminals to give them to their victims. State Senator Julian Bradley yesterday said the idea is to make sure that criminals are not rewarded. Bradley is defending his idea from other lawmakers who say his plan is racist. Bradley points out that many crime victims in Wisconsin, particularly in Milwaukee, are black. He says they need someone to step-up for them as well.

The next strategy for people opposed to Wisconsin’s wolf hunt is to go to Washington, D.C. Environmentalists and the state’s tribes are hoping that new Interior Secretary Deb Haaland will stop the hunt. Haaland is the first Native American interior secretary. Both environmentalists and the state’s tribes are unhappy with how many wolves were killed in Wisconsin during last month’s three-day hunting season.

A vehicle equipment violation leads to an arrest. 31 year old Quinnelius U. Neita, from Minneapolis, MN has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 1st offense, with one child in the vehicle under the age of 16. On Monday, March 22, 2021 at approximately 7:51 PM A Wisconsin State Trooper stopped a vehicle on Interstate 94 after observing that the tail lamps on the vehicle were inoperable. The

More stimulus checks are being doled out to Americans this week.  The second round of 14-hundred-dollar checks is expected to go out on Wednesday, if not sooner.  The Treasury Department says mailed paper checks could be coming if money does not appear in direct deposits and that could take a number of weeks.  The relief checks are part of the massive stimulus bill President Biden recently signed into law.

An Illinois man will look to break the world record for most pushups in an hour on Saturday. Lisa Taylor with more.

Wisconsin State Patrol says a 60-year-old is facing charges for hitting two cars and driving drunk on Interstate-94 over the weekend. State Patrol says Kena Gleason was pulled over and found to be nearly twice over the legal limit Saturday evening. Gleason is facing their sixth O-W-I offense, failure to have an ignition interlock device installed and driving with a revoked license.