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Open enrollment could reopen again at Memorial High School. The Eau Claire school board will vote later this month to reopen enrollment at the school after voting in 2017 to funnel all open enrollment into North High School. A vote will happen later this month.

The gray wolf is no longer on a federal list of endangered species. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will allow hunters an official wolf season in 2021 beginning November 6th. The department says it is illegal to kill a wolf outside of the hunting season unless wolves are killing, wounding, or biting a domestic animal on private property. 

The Eau Claire fire department is responsible for a deer rescue over the weekend. The department posted photos of the deer safe on land after firefighters saved it from falling through the ice near Forest Street. The department says it took several staff members to make the rescue on the Chippewa River Saturday afternoon. 

 Many Americans started receiving their stimulus payments just days before the New Year, but some are still waiting. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM THE IRS. Mike Bower reports.

A Cumberland man is facing formal first-degree homicide charges for what investigators are calling a road rage homicide shooting. The D.A. in Barron County last week filed the charges against Clayton Lauritsen. Police say he shot and killed 45-year-old Lauritz Robertson back on December 28th. No one is saying exactly what led to the shooting, but police are confident in calling it road rage.

The case against the pharmacist accused of ruining hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine may be changing. Steven Brandenburg left jail yesterday, and prosecutors walked-back some of the charges against him. First, the D.A. in Ozaukee County says the doses may not be spoiled. Aurora Health still has them, and the hospital is working to see if they are still viable. If they are, the felony destruction of property charge and the recklessly endangering safety charge that Brandenburg are

It is the latest sign that authorities are expecting trouble in Kenosha when the decision about charges in the Jacob Blake case comes. Governor Tony Evers yesterday called-up 500 Wisconsin National Guard troops to head to the city. The governor says the troops will be in Kenosha to work with local law enforcement and protect infrastructure if necessary. No one is saying when a decision in the Blake case will come, but Kenosha is preparing for it right now. Jacob Blake’s father

A Dunn County father is looking at felony charges after police say he hid his son’s teenage girlfriend from her mother. Prosecutors yesterday filed felony bail jumping and interfering with child custody charges against 49-year-old Tony Schilling. Prosecutors also say Schilling sent a text to the girl’s mother saying he’d killed her and left her body in the dump. Authorities found the 16-year-old girl hiding in a closet in Schilling’s home last week. She’s since been sent home to her

There will be a vote on a coronavirus relief package at the Wisconsin Capitol, whether that package becomes law is another question entirely. Republicans in the legislature yesterday introduced their coronavirus relief plan as the first bill to be voted on this year. The Republican plan directs 100-million-dollars toward coronavirus costs and makes sure that seniors in the state don’t have to pay for a vaccine. But the plan also pushes to get kids back in school, give businesses in the state

Republican leaders in Madison want the people’s house to be open to the people once again. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos and Senate Majority Leader Devin LeMahieu yesterday agreed to a resolution that would reopen the state Capitol. Governor Evers ordered the Capitol closed because of the coronavirus. Visitors are not allowed-in, but people can go to the statehouse for hearings or other official business.