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Just in time for the New Year Sylvan Hill is open for tubing.  They have one hill open and crews are working on a second one.  There are changes because of the coronavirus so social distancing is encouraged and there will be limited space at tables.  Lift tickets are available in the back of the building and the concession stand is only accessible from the parking lot.

Buffalo County reports that they are beginning to see local progress regarding phase 1a vaccination. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services vaccination plan involves 3 phases that are based off the number of doses available. Currently, in phase 1a they are seeing health care personnel getting vaccinated as well as employees and residents in long term care facilities. Advent Health is working with Buffalo County Public Health in order to provide vaccination for unaffiliated health care personnel such as EMS,

Locals are being recruited to help the National Weather Service report snowfall totals, rain, and hail in the area. Eau Claire County Emergency Management says it’s one way the department participates to help the National Weather Service Twin Cities office. A link to learn how to participate IS RIGHT HERE.

The Wisconsin Badgers quarterback fumbles the team’s bowl game trophy after a win against Wake Forest last night. The Badgers beat the Demon Deacons 42-to-28. In a now viral video, Badgers quarterback Graham Mertz is seen dancing and celebrating with his team, then dropping the trophy on the ground, shattering it. Head Coach Paul Chryst joked about the shattered prize saying now, everyone can have a piece of the Duke’s Mayo Bowl trophy.  CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE DROP

The countdown is almost here! Today is New Year’s Eve.  That means it’s the last day of 2020, a year many would like to leave in the past.  The cliff notes? The coronavirus pandemic overtook the U.S. and the rest of the world, leading to millions of infections.  More than 330-thousand people have died due to the virus in the U.S.  This Year also forced many to stay inside to protect themselves and others.  That led to platforms like Zoom being used for everything from business

It could be a de facto life sentence for the man who spent years posting pornographic pictures on hiking trails in Chippewa County. Listen to more with Jon Demaster: Prosecutors yesterday filed felony identity theft and harm of reputation charges, as well as disorderly conduct charges against 60-year-old David Lunemann. Police say he posted hundreds of pictures on trails in the county for years. All of them were directed at workers at a local business, though no one is saying

The suspect in November’s stabbing death in Menomonie is due in court next week. A judge has set Tasheen Goggins’s preliminary hearing for next Wednesday. Police say Goggins stabbed and killed a man back on November 1st. Police say Goggins told them it was a ‘light stabbing.’

The number of people in the hospital with the coronavirus continues to fall in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said just over a thousand people are hospitalized with the virus. That’s down from 12 hundred earlier this week, and down from over two thousand last month. Overall, Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers have been falling since a peak in the middle of November. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS.

The 16-year-old from Rice Lake who went missing more than two weeks ago has been found, and police say her boyfriend and his father hid her. Police say they found Cara Haaf hiding in a closet in her boyfriend’s home in Ridgeland yesterday. She’s been missing since the beginning of the month. Police arrested her boyfriend and his father for interfering with Haaf’s mother’s custody.

 The FBI is now investigating why an employee at a suburban Milwaukee health clinic intentionally left hundreds of coronavirus doses to spoil over the weekend. Managers at Aurora Health’s clinic in Grafton are now saying that an employee did not mistakenly leave about 500 doses of the vaccine out to spoil. The clinic yesterday released a statement that said the employee admitted that they did not return the vaccine to the refrigerator, and that it was not a mistake. Aurora