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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. 

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers is going to spend the state’s three-point-two-billion-dollars in stimulus money on his own. The governor yesterday vetoed the Republican plan that would have given lawmakers some say over the stimulus haul. The governor said Republicans didn’t want to spend enough on small businesses. Evers then announced his own, 420-million-dollar small business grant program. The details have yet to be worked-out, but the governor said the hope is to provide five- thousand-dollar grants to businesses hurt by the

Wisconsin’s attorney general is going to look into each of Wisconsin’s Catholic churches as part of a statewide sex abuse investigation. A-G Josh Kaul announced the investigation this week. Kaul said the point of the review into clergy sex abuse claims is to ”provide accountability and, ultimately, healing.’ Kaul wrote church leaders in Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, La Crosse, and Superior and said he hopes they ‘welcome the review.’

Eau Claire’s health director says the choice is up to the people, either get the coronavirus vaccine or wait longer for things to reopen. Health Director Lieske Giese yesterday said things in the Chippewa Valley will be slow to open as long as the community spread is where it is. She’s urging people to get vaccinated. The state says almost 44-percent of people in Eau Claire County have gotten a shot. Giese said the goal is 80-percent. CLICK HERE FOR