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 Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul says the recount of the presidential election is complete and the Wisconsin general election was conducted professionally and securely.  The Democrat attorney general tweeted today that there is no basis for the claims of widespread fraud that would have affected the results of a Joe Biden victory.  He says he has every confidence that what he calls a disgraceful Jim Crow strategy for mass disenfranchisement of voters will fail.  Kaul says Wisconsin elections are decided by the will of the

Eau Claire Police made an arrest after a stabbing on Thanksgiving morning. It was a little after 1 in the morning when Officers responded to 641 Franklin Street in Eau Claire, where in the backyard there were two people, one covered in blood and screaming for them to help a man lying on the ground with a stab wound to the chest. After details from those on the scene, 51 year old Kelly Weiberg was ordered from the house and

Police in Chippewa Falls assisted in clearing the area around the 200-block of East Willow Street because of a house fire. They say the fire was contained and everyone was evacuated safely. Police say the Chippewa Falls Fire Department is investigating. 

More women are sporting hunter’s orange and taking the fields to get a buck or a doe than ever before. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the number of women hunters increased by nine-percent from last year. The department says about 90-thousand woman participated this year.

If you’re hanging a Holiday light display this year, the Chippewa Falls Main Street board wants to know where locals can stop to see it. The board is asking residents to share their address with them and they’ll anonymously release the list of addresses with the best lights in the city. They say the names of the resident won’t be posted. 

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is holding a public meeting this Thursday to discuss a proposed change to the length limit for muskkellunge, or musky fish in Butternut Lake. The D-N-R says the change proposal removes a 28-inch minimum and replaces it with a 40-inch minimum. The department says there’s no longer a reason to promote selective fishing of medium-sized fish, making the previous limit unnecessary.

The bigger picture of Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers is relatively unchanged. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported three thousand additional positives and 22 new deaths. But DHS also reported a drop in the number of people being treated for the virus in the hospital. Wisconsin’s public health managers are bracing for what they expect to be an uptick in the number of coronavirus positives after Thanksgiving. There’s a new way for folks in the Chippewa Valley to quickly find out if

The tens-of-thousands of people who’ve been waiting months for their unemployment check could see something by the end of the year. Department of Workforce Development Interim Secretary Amy Pechacek said on Capital City Sunday that she hopes to erase the state’s unemployment backlog in a matter of weeks, not months. Some people have been waiting since March to have their claim processes, others have been waiting months to get paid. DWD’s numbers from last week show 70 thousand people are

Wisconsin’s presidential recount is over and things didn’t change much. Joe Biden’s campaign yesterday said they added 87 votes to their 20 thousand vote lead over President Trump. Counters in Madison finished their part of the recount yesterday, Milwaukee County finished its recount on Friday. The Wisconsin Elections Commission is set to certify the vote count tomorrow. We will show you different sides so you can decide. And across the aisle, President Trump says the point of the recount in Wisconsin was not to

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Giving Tuesday, non-profits in Eau Claire have their sights set on the last one. The folks at Positive Avenues and Sojourner House in Eau Claire are hoping people dig deep tomorrow. Non-profits rely on donations, and say this year has been especially tight. Most non-profits have a way to donate online, or you can contact your favorite to ask how best to support them.