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A task force on communicable diseases in Eau Claire is complete. The 19 member board will begin meetings in January. City Council President Terry Weld says public hearings will be held in the winter and spring. The task force will bring their recommendations to the Eau Claire City-County board in June 2021.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is launching a new COVID exposure notification app today. The app will alert people if they have been in contact with someone or are near someone who recently tested positive for COVID-19. The app will also send notifications to others if you test positive for COVID-19. The department says the app does not store or collect physical locations or personal information.

The sheriff in Clark County is asking for help in looking for a woman who’s been missing for months. Cassandra Ayon’s friends and family haven’t seen her since October 3rd, and they are worried. The sheriff’s office is asking about a red SUV that was seen near the trailer park where Ayon was last seen. Her pictures are online. Deputies say anyone who knows anything about Ayon’s whereabouts should contact them immediately.

Another day, another number that shows that coronavirus positives in Wisconsin are falling. The state’s Department of Health Services’ numbers show positives have fallen nearly 70-percent since last month’s peak.  On November 18th, DHS reported the state’s week-long average was nearly eight-thousand positives. Yesterday, that seven-day average fell to just over 26-hundred. DHS is reporting drops in positives in every single age group in the state. However, at the same time that we are seeing those numbers drop, there are the people

Add this to the coronavirus price tag for the University of Wisconsin. A new audit says the university paid nearly 70-million-dollars in refunds to students after campuses closed last March. The exact price tag came to 68-point-five-million dollars and is for refunds for housing and food. Students did not get tuition money back because they were taking classes online.

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is once again side-stepping the question over government overreach during the coronavirus outbreak. Justice Brian Hagedorn yesterday once again sided with the court’s liberals in upholding Dane County’s ban on indoor crowds. Hagedorn used most of his ruling to scold the Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty for taking their challenge to the order directly to the Supreme Court. Hagedorn said the high court is the court of last resort. Conservative Justice Pagie Rogensack, however, said sending the case to

The final price tag for Wisconsin’s presidential recount will be less than three-million-dollars. Clerks and Milwaukee and Dane counties yesterday said they shaved over 300-thousand-dollars off their original estimates. The Wisconsin Elections Commission cut its price tag by another 20-thousand-dollars. Milwaukee’s clerk says the recount took less time than expected. The WEC says it has until mid-January to refund the president.

They are planning for the Northern Wisconsin State Fair next summer. Fair managers yesterday announced the dates for the 2021 fair. Right now, the fair is set for July 7th through the 11th. Managers canceled the 2020 fair because of the coronavirus. The hope is to be able to welcome people back to the fairgrounds this summer.

Wisconsin is setting a new record for COVID-19 deaths in one day.  The health department reports 120 deaths in the last 24 hours.  That breaks the record of 107 deaths set on December 1st.  Eight deaths were reported yesterday.  Over 45-hundred Wisconsinites have died from COVID-19 since the beginning of the pandemic. On the national level, President-elect Joe Biden is offering prayers for everyone confronting the “dark winter” of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.  Biden delivered a pre-holiday speech in Delaware and said

At-home COVID-19 testing kits are now available in Wisconsin.  Officials say anyone who wants one of the saliva collection kits can get one free of charge.  Governor Tony Evers announced today a contract with Vault Medical Services to make those kits available for free.  People do not have to be experiencing symptoms in order to get a kit which is available at DHS-dot-Wisconsin-dot-gov.