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Camping World Holdings, Inc. today announced the opening of its newest SuperCenter in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. Camping World Holdings, the nation’s largest network of RV and outdoor lifestyle centric locations, currently owns and operates over 170 SuperCenters nationwide and a comprehensive ecommerce platform, specializing in RV sales and service, RV parts and accessories, outdoor lifestyle products and its entire portfolio of Good Sam products andservices. The company has five locations in Wisconsin. The Eau Claire location is at 6440 Scully

The number of COVID-19 cases confirmed in Wisconsin now tops 564-thousand.  Health Service officials are reporting 308 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours.  There were no new deaths reported today, so that toll remains at more than six-thousand-400. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS Meanwhile,  a community memorial is planned in Madison to honor the victims of COVID-19.  The city and Dane County will hold a Light the Night ceremony at Alliant Energy Center tonight at 6:00 p.m. There

Public defenders are getting a break when it comes to raises.  Currently public defenders’ pay is limited as are yearly raises.  The new law signed by Governor Tony Evers today will allow for raises based on their merits.  The governor says public defenders play a vital role in ensuring an efficient and just system.  The state’s Public Defender’s Office has lost nearly 80 staff members in the last year as many left for better-paying jobs.

He has been a Badger, a Texan and now he’s a Cardinal.  JJ Watt and the Arizona Cardinals have come to terms on a deal that sends the Wisconsin native to the Valley of the Sun.  The team confirms it is a two-year deal.  The five time All-Pro defensive end played ten years for the Texans after his career at Wisconsin.  He was released by the Texans per his request last month.

Two Wisconsin-based cooperatives, Landmark Services Cooperative and Countryside Cooperative have officially merged as of 12:01 a.m. CST on March 1, 2021. “As we focused on the benefits the merger would bring, we quickly realized that growing together would only make us stronger,” said Board Chairman Jim Lange. “The board is excited for what the weeks, months and years to come will look like for the new co-op.” Countryside members voted ‘yes’ to the merger in August 2020. The newly formed

A car versus bus crash in Eau Claire is causing some traffic delays this morning. You may have seen the coverage with WEAU-TV, as they posted photos of the accident to Facebook showing first responders on the scene near Memorial High School. They say traffic is down to one-lane on Clairemont Avenue for a stretch.

 It could be a bad year for tornadoes, according Eau Claire County Emergency Management. They say they’re starting to see several tornado forecasts being predicted and shared across the country. The National Weather Service doesn’t yet have a prediction for tornado season. Historically, there have been a moderate to high number of tornadoes reported in Western Wisconsin, compared to the rest of the state.

Eau Claire is vying for Wisconsin’s Fittest Community this month. The city parks, recreation and forestry department says beginning today through the month of March, Eau Claire and 38 other communities are expected to compete in fitness challenges across the state. It’s ten-dollars to sign-up before March 14th. The winning city gets a trophy.

Black History Month has wrapped up and now the start of March brings Women’s History Month.  Congress declared the first official Women’s History Month in March of 1987.  Prior to that, then-President Jimmy Carter in 1980 designated the first National Women’s History Week, beginning on the 8th of March – which is International Women’s Day.

Investigators are looking for what started a fire at an empty Chippewa Falls business on Saturday. It took firefighters a bit to put out the flames at the building on West Willow Street. No one was inside, so there were no injuries. Fire crews say the task now is to figure out what caused the fire.