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Officials confirm 821 new COVID-19 cases statewide.  That brings the total number of cases to just under 552-thousand.  There are 12-thousand-800 active cases in the state.  The Department of Health Services also reported 35 coronavirus deaths, which raises the death toll to six-thousand-129. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM WI DHS

The mother and brother of the Fox River Mall shooting suspect are under arrest.  Grand Chute police say Shirina Willis and Ralph Ellis are facing charges for harboring and aiding a felon.  Dezman Ellis is charged with first-degree homicide for allegedly shooting and killing Jovanni Frausto during an argument at the mall ten days ago.  Ellis is being held on a one-and-a-half-million-dollar bond.

The state’s first community COVID-19 vaccine clinic is opening at Blackhawk Technical College.  Governor Tony Evers toured the facility today which will open on Tuesday and be able to vaccinate about 250 people a day.  If they can get an increase of vaccines, health officials are hoping to inoculate up to a thousand people a day at the facility.

Health officials aren’t quite sure why, but there’s no doubting the numbers as the flu season has been virtually nonexistent in Wisconsin.  Some officials suggest the wearing of masks, social distancing and handwashing associated with COVID-19 prevention has helped curb the transmission of influenza.  At this point year ago the state had recorded over nine-thousand-and-250 flu cases compared to 38 reported this year.

University of Wisconsin-Stout alumnus Jon Kirschhoffer spent his career at 3M, a company known for making things stick like Post-It Notes and other adhesives. When his son, BJ Kirschhoffer, director of field operations for Polar Bears International, contacted his father, an advance research specialist in the 3M Corporate Research Systems Lab, about needing a better way for researchers to track polar bears in the Arctic, 3M became the bearer of necessity and developed a number of prototype polar bear tracker tags to

With temperatures below zero across the Chippewa Valley, transportation officials say it’s important to take it slow. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says salt used to treat the roads takes longer to melt in temperatures 15-degrees or below. They say it’s also possible for roads to refreeze more quickly as temperatures approach zero degrees. 

Students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison are being asked to show a special code that confirms they do not have COVID-19 before entering any campus buildings. Starting today, the school says students must show a green Badger Badge on their university cellphone app before they can enter any buildings. The school says this is in part of its first phase of COVID-19 compliance enforcement.

The coldest stretch of arctic weather is expected this weekend. The National Weather Service says some light snow is possible tomorrow and Friday into Saturday. They say the cold won’t last too much longer, temps will start to get warmer next week. 

The National Guard COVID-19 testing site at Peace Church, 501 E. Filmore Ave., Eau Claire will be open from 10am-2pm on Friday, February 12th and Saturday, February 13th due to extreme cold temperatures, and will be closed on Monday, February 15th in observance of President’s Day. This test site is expected to resume normal testing hours on Friday,February 19th. The National Guard COVID-19 testing site at Augusta Senior Center, 616 W. Washington Ave., Augusta will be open from 1-5pm on

In one of his first trips since taking office, President Joe Biden is scheduled to visit Milwaukee next week to participate in a CNN Town Hall.  It will be Biden’s first trip to Wisconsin since he was inaugurated last month.  The program will air from the Pabst Theater next Tuesday night.