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Chippewa Valley Technical College (CVTC) has been named a Military Friendly School for 2021-22. The Military Friendly School designation is awarded to the top colleges, universities, community colleges and trade schools in the country that are doing the most to embrace military students and ensure their success in the classroom and after graduation. The list serves as a resource for service members and military families seeking education and has played a significant role in advancing best practices in supporting military

Project Hope, a collaborative program between local agencies aiming at reducing methamphetamine and opioid addiction and their related crimes in Dunn County, has been underway for the last several months. A virtual event detailing the progress and future of Project Hope is set to be held Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 6 PM. This event can be viewed live on the Menomonie Police Department Facebook page. Project Hope consists of four strategic pillars- Prevention, Treatment, Enforcement and Harm Reduction- that

It’s probably been awhile since you’ve been to dinner and a show, but a Chippewa Falls theatre is hopeful to change that soon. The Heyde Center for the Arts has reopened during the pandemic, but tickets for it’s first live performance since November are available now. The center is limiting capacity for ‘Laughter is the Best Medicine,’ to 120-viewers. The show is set for April 10th. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE HEYDE CENTER.

Eau Claire is getting a new rooftop bar. The city plan commission approved a new downtown rooftop bar and restaurant during its’ meeting last night. The plans call for 150-seats on top of the building at Graham Avenue and East Grand. It’ll be called the Grand Rooftop Bar.

An Eau Claire couple are the new owners of the Princeton Valley Golf Course. You may have seen this story in The Leader-Telegram. As Ally Weyer and Josh Walberg were on the front page and are the first new owners since the course opened in 1976. The course was first founded by brothers Neil and Charles Haselwander.

Strong winds are expected with a warm up this week. The National Weather Service says Eau Claire could feel gusts nearly 30-miles-an-hour today out of the southwest. They say the warming trend begins today with temperatures in the upper 30’s expected this afternoon. They expect the highest temperature this week to reach more than 50-degrees. 

A Dunn County father could soon be looking at homicide charges for the death of his six-week-old son. Police arrested Jonathan Lucas yesterday. They say he was the only one home with his son, Daemyn, when the little boy died last month. Dunn County’s medical examiner says the baby’s death is a homicide, but no one is saying just how the baby died. Prosecutors have not yet filed formal charges in the case.

The two suspects in last March’s murder in Eau Claire will be tried separately. A judge last week ordered the cases against Juan Olivarez and Joe Moya to be severed. They are both charged with homicide for last March’s home invasion and shooting death of Edwin Garcia-Smith.

It has been one year to the day since the state of Wisconsin started testing for the coronavirus. The Department of Health Services announced the state’s first tests on March 2nd, 2020. Since then, crews have performed more than three-million tests. DHS says just over 560-thousand people in the state have tested positive since last March. More than 97-percent of them have fully recovered. Wisconsin has seen just over 64-hundred deaths since the virus first appeared last year. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI