Chippewa Valley Technical College is breaking ground on a new transportation center. Several people met yesterday to break ground on the 29-Million-dollar education center that will include truck driving and servicing, auto repair, and more programs. Construction is set to be complete before Fall 2022.
Read MoreA YouTube star famous for food videos is selling burgers at Red Robin in Eau Claire. Volume One reports Jimmy Donaldson, also known as MrBeaststarted a virtual restaurant brand. MrBeast-Burger operates out of 600-restaurants nationwide and now includes Red Robin in Eau Claire. Orders can be placed through the MrBeast-Burger app.
Read MoreMay the Force be with you this May 4th. More from Mark Mayfield. Today people around the world will celebrate Star Wars Day. The unofficial holiday honoring Jedis, droids and the Force doesn’t get its roots from a galaxy far, far away. Instead, it dates back to 1979 in Britain when Margaret Thatcher was named Britain’s first female prime minister. To celebrate her victory, her party took out an ad in the London Evening News saying “May the Fourth Be
Read MoreVice President Kamala Harris is going to talk about jobs during her visit to Milwaukee. The VP is set to visit the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and then host a roundtable today on the new jobs President Biden is promising as part of his infrastructure plan. Harris is traveling the country this week, trying to sell the nearly two trillion-dollar plan that Republicans say spends too little on roads, bridges, and airports, and spends too much on new green energy initiatives that
Read MoreWe are getting a bit clearer of a picture of what happened at the Oneida Casino Saturday night. Brown County Sheriff Todd Delain yesterday said the gunman, 62-year-old Bruce Pofahl, was a former employee who’d been fired and banned from the property. Other employees say Pofahl was fired for harassment. Investigators say Pofahl shot and killed two kitchen workers at the casino. Officers shot and killed Pofhal as he left the building. Pofahl was fired earlier this year, and a
Read MoreFederal prosecutors are bringing charges against two more Wisconsin men for being inside the U.S. Capitol back on January 6th. There is no evidence that Brandon Nelson and Abram Markofski committed any vandalism or violence while inside the Capitol building. Prosecutors are simply charging them for being inside. Markofski is a member of the Wisconsin National Guard, investigators say he told them he drove from the LaCrosse area to Washington, D.C. to be part of the protest in the capital that day. The two
Read MoreWe’re getting some insight into the gun that Kenosha police officer Rusten Sheskey lost last year. A new video shows Shesky discussing the case with the police department. He says the pistol was stolen from his girlfriend’s car last fall. Sheskey had the gun in the car because he was not living at home following the Jacob Blake shooting. Sheskey says he had to be ready to flee at a moment’s notice, and wanted a gun in each of their
Read MoreSchool leaders in Eau Claire are not saying why test scores are dropping, but the numbers show they are clearly dropping. The city’s school board got a presentation last night that shows more kids are failing to read or do math at grade level than last year. Anywhere between a third and just over 46 percent of kids got the lowest scores on this year’s Star Assessment. The scores were lower for all elementary school kids in both reading and
Read MoreWisconsin’s effort to reach out to minority communities across the state is not changing the vaccine gap. The state Department of Health Services’ latest numbers show over 40 percent of the people vaccinated so far are white, just 20 percent are black. Most of the people who are vaccinated are also older. DHS has been working for months to get more people of color, and more younger people to get the shot. DHS says 43 percent of the state has
Read MoreTax day is later this year, but it is coming. The Wisconsin Department of Revenue yesterday reminded people that tax day is May 17th this year. That’s in two weeks. Revenue says about two-and-a-half million people have already filed their taxes, Wisconsin has about three million taxpayers. The state is encouraging people to file their taxes online this year, you can do that at the Department of Revenue’s e-file website. CLICK HERE TO GET THERE.
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