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The WI DOJ released more information regarding an officer involved shooting death in our state. The complete statement is below: The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) is investigating an officer involved death (OID) near Fort Atkinson, Wis. that occurred on the afternoon of Wednesday, December 9, 2020. At approximately 12:30 pm, Wisconsin State Patrol attempted a traffic stop for speeding on Highway 26 between Watertown and Johnson Creek. One driver and one passenger were inside the vehicle.

 University of Wisconsin-Stout today announced that its spring break scheduled for March 13-21 will be canceled.  “This was not an easy decision to make,” Chancellor Katherine Frank said in a communication to campus. “However, it is necessary due to the current status of the pandemic, the inability to predict its course through early spring and our responsibility to keep our university and local community as safe and healthy as possible.”  She also noted that a growing number of UW institutions, including

The Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office is joining law enforcement agencies across Wisconsin during the “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign from Friday, December 18 through New Year’s Day, January 1. During the national holiday campaign, law enforcement agencies across Wisconsin will patrol in greater numbers, for longer hours, watching for impaired drivers. “About every three hours in Wisconsin, someone is injured or killed in an alcohol-related crash,” Sheriff Kowalczyk said. “This campaign is not about stopping or arresting motorists.

High school band students are giving thanks to healthcare workers as the first doses of a coronavirus vaccine arrive in Eau Claire. The Eau Claire Memorial High School band played for healthcare workers at several local hospitals Monday night. The Memorial High School Band Program posted videos of some performances on its Facebook page. 

The Chippewa Falls Police Department Alumni Association’s Back the Blue campaign is closing in on its goal. The association posted to Facebook saying Leinenkugel’s  Brewing Company donated one-thousand dollars to the campaign and Pederson-Volker Funeral Chapel matched the donation yesterday. The goal is to donate ten-thousand-dollars to the Chippewa Falls Police Department by Christmas.

The former teacher accused in a child pornography case is out of jail. A judge yesterday allowed Todd Williams to sign a five-thousand-dollar signature bond to get out of jail. Prosecutors say Williams had dozens of images of child porn on his computer. He’s been let go at Eau Claire North, and the judge ordered him to not have any contact with young people or children.

The first healthcare workers in the Chippewa Valley have received their coronavirus shot. Mayo Clinic Health System in Eau Claire said they received just under three-thousand doses yesterday. The vaccine will go to frontline healthcare workers first, then people living in long-term care facilities. Mayo’s Dr. Andrew Badley says it will likely be April before the vaccine will become available to the general public. Here in our state, nearly 90-percent of the people who’ve tested positive for the coronavirus in Wisconsin have

Thanks to virtual learning, school kids in Eau Claire won’t miss any classes this winter. The city’s school board last night announced the district will not take any snow days this winter. Instead, kids will learn from home if it is too snowy to come to school. Superintendent Michael Johnson says not only will learning from home on snow days help kids keep up, it will avoid adding days to the end of the school year.

Wisconsin’s largest dairy group is joining with a group of conservationists and environmentalists to look at clean water. The state’s Dairy Business Association yesterday signed-on to an agreement with Clean Wisconsin, The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin, and Wisconsin Land and Water Conservation Association. The DBA says farmers want to find a way to project clean water in the state and have decided to work toward a solution. Most of the focus will be on well water in rural parts of the state, particularly finding

A new report blames Wisconsin’s tuition freeze for all manners of financial challenges at the University of Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Policy Forum says the state’s seven-year-old tuition freeze is good for students, but hurts the university by choking-off a stream of new dollars. The Policy Forum also says UW Madison is slipping as a research institution, and that campus buildings have fallen behind. The group Badgers United is using the report to suggest a tuition increase, more money for the