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 It’s possible to win 500-dollars in gift certificates by shopping downtown in Chippewa Falls between now and the end of the year. The Chippewa Falls Main Street Christmas Sweepstakes is a contest giving locals the chance to win if they shop at any downtown business and keep the receipt. The receipts need to be dated from November 1st to December 31st to be entered. CLICK TO BE TRANSPORTED TO DOWNTOWN CHIPPEWA.

Chippewa Valley locals could win a 50-dollar Amazon gift card before Christmas. The Chippewa Valley Home Builders Association wants to see your family’s gingerbread creation before December 10th. According to the Facebook event page, participants must be from Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, Dunn, Clark, Pepin, or Buffalo counties. They say it can be any structure, but it must be edible. Entry information can be found on Facebook CLICK HERE FOR AN EASY LINK TO THE PAGE.

If some of your famous recipes include a slow cooker, there is a recall you might want to be aware of. Crock-Pot 6-Quart Express Crock Multi-Cookers are recalled by Sunbeam Products, because of a burn risk. Dean Miuccio has more. The recalled Crock-Pot multi-cooker can pressurize when the lid is not fully locked.  This can cause the lid to suddenly detach while the product is in use, posing burn risks to consumers from hot food and liquids ejected from the

Wisconsin is reporting the largest number of coronavirus deaths since the state started tracking back in March. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 104 deaths related to the virus. That is the most in a single day ever in Wisconsin. DHS’s numbers continue to show that it is mostly older people who are dying from the virus. DHS says just over 24 hundred of Wisconsin’s more than three thousand coronavirus deaths are among people who are 70-or-older. When it comes to

The sheriff in Clark County is looking for two fake deputies. The sheriff’s office took to Facebook yesterday to ask for help in finding two men who pulled over a car in the Township of Hoard on Monday. The sheriff’s office says one man claimed to be a ‘Dunn County Warden Sheriff’, while the other said he was a Clark County Sheriff’s Deputy. Both men were armed. Real deputies in Clark County say hunters may have had encounters with the

The woman accused of stealing from an Eau Claire nonprofit is still running her charity. Shauna Hanson’s lawyer yesterday said she cannot be banned from having contact with the Helping Hands For Our Children in the Chippewa Valley charity because she is still helping people. Prosecutors say Hanson stole 65 thousand-dollars in donations. She’s facing theft charges, and is due back in court in January.

It looks like a good first weekend for a lot of deer hunters in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Natural Resources is reporting a two-point-three percent increase in deer harvested during the first weekend of gun season. DNR says their numbers show hunters bagged just over 95 thousand deer between Saturday morning and Sunday evening. DNR also said that three hunters were hurt and one died in accidents during the first hunting weekend.

Nursing students who volunteer at hospitals in Wisconsin can earn some tuition credit. UW President Tommy Thompson yesterday announced a plan to offer 500 dollars in tuition credit to qualified nursing students in the UW System who pitch-in at hospitals over the winter break. Thompson says the students can help with vaccines or take-over some clerical work that frees-up other nurses to provide care. Thompson says the tuition credit is just part of the Wisconsin Idea.

People who want some clarity on backyard chickens in Eau Claire are going to have to wait. The city council called FOWL yesterday and punted on a decision, saying they will cross that road in February. Eau Claire is considering scratching out a change that would require people who want to keep chickens to first get the okay from two-thirds of their neighbors. Eau Claire City Council President Terry Weld says that would take the “scramble” away from city hall,

People who live in La Crosse could soon be paying more for flood insurance because of questionable record keeping at city hall. FEMA back in September said La Crosse is no longer considered compliant with its flood insurance program. That means flood insurance rates could jump ten percent. FEMA says La Crosse failed to keep up-to-date on some of its data, information, and processes. La Crosse has til mid-December to fix the issues, but it’s unclear if that can happen.