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There is a chance that the latest challenge to Wisconsin’s mask requirement could be different. Businessman and Republican donor Jere Fabick on Tuesday asked the Wisconsin Supreme Court to strike down the mask mandate and Governor Tony Evers’ latest emergency order. This is not the first time the court has been asked to step-in, but it is the first time the court has been asked after lawmakers overruled the governor. The court has said in the past that lawmakers could act on the

Schools that are fully open for in-person classes in Wisconsin are seeing a bit more money from Madison. The legislature’s budget committee yesterday approved 69 million-dollars for schools that have students back in their classrooms. Senate budget chief Howard Marklein said the legislature wants to send the message that kids need to be in school. The 69 million is just a fraction of the 617 million that the state is getting from the federal government for schools.

As the Tampa Bay Buccaneers celebrated their Super Bowl win on the water, Tom Brady made NFL history with another kind of pass. Gordon Byrd has the story.

Officials confirm 821 new COVID-19 cases statewide.  That brings the total number of cases to just under 552-thousand.  There are 12-thousand-800 active cases in the state.  The Department of Health Services also reported 35 coronavirus deaths, which raises the death toll to six-thousand-129. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS

The mother and brother of the Fox River Mall shooting suspect are under arrest.  Grand Chute police say Shirina Willis and Ralph Ellis are facing charges for harboring and aiding a felon.  Dezman Ellis is charged with first-degree homicide for allegedly shooting and killing Jovanni Frausto during an argument at the mall ten days ago.  Ellis is being held on a one-and-a-half-million-dollar bond.

The state’s first community COVID-19 vaccine clinic is opening at Blackhawk Technical College.  Governor Tony Evers toured the facility today which will open on Tuesday and be able to vaccinate about 250 people a day.  If they can get an increase of vaccines, health officials are hoping to inoculate up to a thousand people a day at the facility.

Health officials aren’t quite sure why, but there’s no doubting the numbers as the flu season has been virtually nonexistent in Wisconsin.  Some officials suggest the wearing of masks, social distancing and handwashing associated with COVID-19 prevention has helped curb the transmission of influenza.  At this point year ago the state had recorded over nine-thousand-and-250 flu cases compared to 38 reported this year.

University of Wisconsin-Stout alumnus Jon Kirschhoffer spent his career at 3M, a company known for making things stick like Post-It Notes and other adhesives. When his son, BJ Kirschhoffer, director of field operations for Polar Bears International, contacted his father, an advance research specialist in the 3M Corporate Research Systems Lab, about needing a better way for researchers to track polar bears in the Arctic, 3M became the bearer of necessity and developed a number of prototype polar bear tracker tags to

With temperatures below zero across the Chippewa Valley, transportation officials say it’s important to take it slow. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says salt used to treat the roads takes longer to melt in temperatures 15-degrees or below. They say it’s also possible for roads to refreeze more quickly as temperatures approach zero degrees. 

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are being asked to show a special code that confirms they do not have COVID-19 before entering any campus buildings. Starting today, the school says students must show a green Badger Badge on their university cellphone app before they can enter any buildings. The school says this is in part of its first phase of COVID-19 compliance enforcement.