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Eau Claire’s outdoor skating rinks could open the day after Christmas. The City of Eau Claire says the outdoor rinks at Boyd, Demmler, Oakwood Hills, Pinehurst, Putnam Heights, Roosevelt, and Sam Davey parks will be flooded for public use. It says weather permitting, they’ll open December 26th. The park shelters are not open because of the COVID pandemic.

Royal Credit Union is warning against an imposter on social media. The bank says someone created a fake Facebook page that appears similar to their own. They say the page is adding friends and sending them direct messages about a 12 Days of Giving cash giveaway contest. The real Royal Credit Union says they haven’t yet selected the winners and if anyone receives a message like that, they should report it.

AMBER Alert Cancellation Jocelyn Van Duyn has been located alive and safe. ORIGINAL STORY DETAILS BELOW: There is a manhunt underway in southeast Wisconsin and parts of Illinois for a missing 10-year-old girl. The State Patrol last night issued an Amber Alert for Jocelyn Van Duyn. Troopers say she left her home in Walworth on Saturday night and hasn’t been back. Authorities believe she is with her father in Illinois. Her pictures are online. Troopers are asking anyone who knows anything about

Going out to eat this holiday season may determine if you’ll be able to go out to eat next spring. The Wisconsin Restaurant Association’s Kristine Hillmer says this holiday season is truly a make-or-break for a lot of local restaurants. Hillmer says many restaurants in Wisconsin have been limping along, and they need a boost in customers. She also says restaurants in the state need more federal help. She is holding-out hope for a second CARES Act from Congress.

Over 100 students at Menomonie High School skipped the first day back to class. Principal Casey Drake yesterday said 120 of the 874 in-person students were absent yesterday. That’s about 13 percent of the high school. A group of students pledged a strike yesterday, they said to protest the return to in-person learning. Menomonie High School had been online-only since mid-November. Kids are in class this week, and part of next, then they are off for Christmas.

A new audit lays the blame for the months-long delays in getting people in Wisconsin their unemployment checks squarely with the Department of Workforce Development. The Legislative Audit Bureau yesterday said DWD didn’t follow-up with people about their unemployment claims, or simply didn’t process the information they already had. Those mistakes left thousands of people waiting months to be paid.

A traffic stop leads to a chase and eventual arrest. Troopers with the Wisconsin State Patrol were conducting a traffic stop on Clairemont Ave near Highway 312, in relation to information received about the driver from the Washington County Sheriffs Office and his wellbeing. During the traffic stop, Troopers observed concerning behavior from the driver and placed a Tire Deflation Device in front of the rear tires of the vehicle. While a Trooper was speaking with the driver, he fled

It is a new, unique problem in Wisconsin. Cheesemakers in the state say the coronavirus vaccine may limit the supply of dry ice. The vaccine must be shipped in dry ice to keep it viable, but so do the dairy cultures needed to make cheese. The fear is that the massive distribution effort to get the vaccine out will severely limit the supply of dry ice for others, or at the very least drive the price of dry ice up.