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The State Department of Health reports 18-hundred-and-two new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.  That pushes the total number of cases to over 538-thousand.  There are over 20-thousand active cases statewide.  Officials also confirmed 24 deaths today which raises the total death toll to five-thousand-811. EASY CLICK TO DHS HAPPENS HERE

Attorney General Josh Kaul is urging everyone who uses a computer to safeguard their information.  Today is Data Privacy Day and Kaul says protecting you and your family’s online privacy and data is more important than ever.  The attorney general encourages people to checkout the website Stay Safe Online for information on how best to secure your accounts, manage your privacy and report cyber crime.

A crash in Wyoming has local connections. It was on January 27th that a fatal crash occurred around milepost 106 on Wyoming 220 west of Casper, Wyoming. It happened a little before 9:30 in the morning as Wyoming Highway Patrol troopers were notified ofa one-vehicle rollover. A 2004 Western Star tractor-trailer was headed west on Wyoming 220 when the driver lost control due to a strong wind gust. The commercial truck exited the right side of the road and overturned

Down, but not done. That’s the message from local leaders when it comes to Coronavirus in our area. Eau Claire County is still seeing a very high number of new COVID cases each day. The Eau Claire City-County Health Department says the rate of positive tests and cases has improved, but the county is still seeing an average 25-new cases per day. The department says the goal for community cases is ten-per day. They say people can slow the spread

Classes are back on at Chippewa Valley Technical College after a system-wide network outage shut down campus. The shutdown delayed the start of the spring semester which was originally scheduled to start Monday. They say the system breach didn’t affect any student or faculty information. 

A federal moratorium on evictions is being extended until the end of March.  Jon DeMaster brings us more 715 Newsroom coverage and details: CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO FROM WI DATCP

Today is the 35th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger explosion, one of the deadliest tragedies in America’s space program.  The shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven on board: astronauts Dick Scobee, Michael Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnick and teacher Christa McAuliffe.  A faulty O-ring and cold weather was to blame, causing the fuel to explode and consume the shuttle.  Millions of school kids watched the disaster live, tuning in to see

All eyes are on the state Assembly, looking to see what Republican lawmakers do about Governor Evers’ mask requirement. The Assembly is set to vote today on an override of the governor’s latest emergency order, which includes the mask requirement. Republicans in the state Senate voted for the override on Tuesday. Republicans say the idea is to rein-in the governor who has overstepped his bounds. Democrats argue that not having a mask mandate will literally kill people. Here locally, Eau

It could be 10 years in prison for a Kenosha man for his role in that city’s nights of violence back in August. Federal prosecutors yesterday unveiled an indictment against 27-year-old Ashton Howard. Kenosha Police say Howard knocked an officer unconscious with a brick during the riots that followed Jacob Blake’s shooting, but prosecutors are moving ahead with obstructing law enforcement during civil disorder and possessing ammunition as a felon charges. The ammunition charges could land Howard in prison for

Another day, another snapshot that shows Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers are falling. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just over 13-hundred new positives, and a seven-day positive rate of under six-percent. That positive rate was over 11-percent at the beginning of the month, and daily positives were above three-thousand. The number of people in the hospital with the virus in Wisconsin continues to fall as well. DHS yesterday said 734 people are hospitalized, of them 160 are in the ICU. CLICK HERE