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Unemployment is mixed in Wisconsin in the final week of 2020. First time claims are up two-percent as continuing claims are down eight-percent.  In Eau Claire, more people filed first time claims than last week. Ongoing claims in the county are down slightly.

An exhibit about the Black Lives Matter movement in 2020 is up virtually at the Pablo Center. The exhibit was co-curated with a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Dr. Selika Ducksworth-Lawton. In a message from the Co-Curator, Dr. Ducksworth-Lawton says the pieces show the freedom movements of today. CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE.

The number-six Wisconsin Badgers men’s basketball team beat fellow Big-Ten rival, number-21 Minnesota last night. The Badgers beat the Golden Gophers 71-to-59. Minnesota recently beat the University of Iowa Hawkeyes, an impressive victory for the team. The Hawkeyes were then number-three.

Hey, it’s NOT 2020 anymore! The new year is here.  From the celebrations, to the resolutions. From the health tips, to the words we want to forget, scroll on for dip into the first few moments of 2021. Millions of Americans from coast to coast rang in 2021 at midnight, finally putting 2020 in the rearview mirror.  Dean Miuccio has more about what that looked like around the world: In London, barriers were erected in Trafalgar Square, and police on

A pharmacist at the Aurora Health Clinic in Grafton is in jail as state and federal investigators try and figure out a motive in the case of those spoiled coronavirus vaccines. Grafton Police arrested the man yesterday, they did not name him, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel said 46-year-old Steven Brandenburg was booked into jail yesterday on charges in the case. Those charges include felony criminal damage to property and second-degree recklessly endangering safety charges. Aurora Health originally said about

The jump in coronavirus positives in Wisconsin is likely due to more testing or more tests being processed than an increase in the virus. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just over 38 hundred new positives. That’s the highest number in nearly two weeks. But those 38 hundred positives are less than half what Wisconsin was seeing during November’s peak. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

A handful of distilleries in Wisconsin are getting a break for doing the right thing. The FDA yesterday cancelled the 14 thousand-dollar fee it was planning to charge distillers in the state, and across the country, for turning their liquor into hand sanitizer. The FDA said distillers that rushed to make hand sanitizer during this spring’s shortage failed to register as drug makers.

This is not what Packer fans were hoping to hear heading into the playoffs. A number of reports say Pro Bowl offensive lineman David Bakhtiari injured his knee yesterday and will miss the rest of the season. There is no word on just how Bakhtiari got hurt. The reports say he tore his ACL.

The Department of Health Services is confirming over 38-hundred positive COVID-19 cases in the last day.  There have been over 481-thousand cases confirmed in the state since the pandemic began.  Forty-one deaths are reported today raising the death toll from COVID-19 to four-thousand-859.

The New Year may bring a new effort by Governor Tony Evers to legalize marijuana.  The governor recently told the Journal-Sentinel he was thinking about adding legalizing pot to the 2021 budget to help boost tax revenue.  Evers tried to get marijuana possession decriminalized last year and has pushed for legalizing medical marijuana but the Republican dominated legislature defeated both measures.  The governor says more than 80-percent of the state supports medical marijuana.