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It is tough to vaccinate all the people who want a shot when there are not enough shots to go around. Chippewa County Health Director Angela Weideman says her office is once again being shorted by the state. Weideman says she’s asked for 500 doses per week, but has gotten just 100. She says the inconsistency makes it difficult to schedule vaccine clinics. So far, Weideman says more than 12-thousand doses have been handed-out in Chippewa County. CLICK HERE FOR

Wisconsin’s coronavirus recovery rate is currently at 97-percent, but the survivability rate is even higher. Numbers from the state’s Department of Health Services show that just one-percent of people who’ve ever tested positive have died from or with the virus. Nearly 80-percent of the people who’ve died with the virus are 70-plus, and many of them had underlying health conditions. DHS says, since last March, over 556-thousand people in Wisconsin have tested positive for the virus. Just over 62-hundred of them died.

The people who will write Wisconsin’s budget are telling Governor Evers to get to work on fixing the state’s outdated unemployment computer system. The legislature’s Joint Finance Committee yesterday agreed to move forward with finding an outside company to overhaul the IT system at the Department of Workforce Development. Governor Evers blames those computers for the months-long delay in getting people their unemployment benefits. Republicans at the Capitol say the governor didn’t need to wait for them to order the changes,

It is now the La Crosse Central Riverhawks. The school changed its mascot and team name this week. La Crosse Central had been the Red Raiders for years. Some people found that nickname insensitive to Native Americans. Principal Troy McDonald says he hopes the new Riverhawks nickname and mascot will be more inclusive.

Forecasters say temperatures will rise into the 20s on Saturday and the mid-30s by the beginning of next week.  Meantime, Wisconsinites are bearing some bitter cold.  The 12 straight nights below zero is the longest streak since the winter of 1977.  That year saw a stretch of 13 consecutive nights below zero.  If clouds increase tonight, overnight temperatures will probably remain in the single digits which would bring a welcomed end to a cold streak.

Eau Claire County is reporting more cases of the UK strain of COVID-19.  The county found the first case in the state about a month ago and today two new cases of the variant have been confirmed.  The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says there’s no relationship between the two new patients and neither have traveled or been hospitalized.  There have been five cases of the UK COVID-19 strain confirmed in Wisconsin. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM LOCAL HEALTH OFFICIALS On

Buffalo County Public Health would like to announce that on-call COVID-19 hours have changed. • For questions concerning COVID-19 Monday-Friday 8-4:30 you may call the main line at 608-685-4412.• For questions concerning COVID-19 Saturday and Sunday 8am-4:30pm you can call 608-685-4433• For questions concerning COVID-19 on Holidays 8am-4:30pm you can call 608-685- 4433 You may use the Buffalo County COVID-19 inbox as well for questions and concerns at covid19@co.buffalo.wi.us.

Shortly before 8:30 p.m. on Tuesday, February 16, 2021, the Dunn County Communications Center received a report of a wrong-way driver travelling Westbound in the eastbound lanes of STH 29 from mile marker 66 in Chippewa County. At 8:30 p.m., the Dunn County Communications Center received a report of a head-on crash on STH 29 near mile marker 62 inthe Township of Elk Mound, County of Dunn. Upon arrival, deputies determined there were three vehicles involved in the crash and

Today is Ash Wednesday and, because of the pandemic, it will be different from any before.   Michael Castner reports.

The Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office is remembering Special Deputy Stephen Hahn who was killed this week while transporting a prisoner. The sheriff’s office posted to Facebook saying Hahn died in an accident on Interstate 94 in Jackson County after a car crossed over the median and hit the transport van head-on. They say Hahn then lost control and hit another car. He was taken to a nearby hospital where he died of his injuries.