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The Coronavirus cases in our state seem to be holding steady. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 36 hundred new coronavirus positives and 81 new deaths. But overall, Wisconsin’s positivity numbers are going down. The state’s seven-day positivity rate is now below 13 percent. DHS managers and Governor Evers warned that the coronavirus numbers would spike after Thanksgiving, and as of now the data isn’t showing that happening.

It is still flu season. Eau Claire’s public health director Lieske Giese says even with the coronavirus still spreading, people in the Chippewa Valley need to be protected from the flu. Her office handed-out free flu shots for younger people last night at North High School. Giese says it is as important as ever to protect yourself this year.

Environmental justice is at the center of Wisconsin’s latest climate change report. The state’s Climate Change Task Force released its report yesterday. It makes many of the same recommendations that climate change activists have made in the past: a lower carbon footprint and more electric cars. But the report also focuses heavily on the idea of environmental justice. Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, who led the task force, wants to create a new state Office of Environmental Justice and study the racial

Wisconsin Health officials are confirming over 36-hundred new positive COVID-19 cases statewide today.  More than 422-thousand cases have been confirmed in the Badger State since the beginning of the pandemic.  An additional 81 deaths were reported today bringing the death toll from the coronavirus to nearly three-thousand-900.

 The search continues for the missing Wisconsin pilot involved in an F-16 crash in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.  Officials say the plane crashed in Delta County, Michigan last night.  The pilot is based at Truax with the Wisconsin Air National Guard and was on a routine training mission.  The pilot’s identity has not been released.

OSHA is investigating the death of an employee in a grain silo.  The body of the victim was recovered after a day-long search at the Didion Milling plant in Cambria yesterday.  The Columbia County Sheriff says the victim is a man in his 50s from Waupun.  His identity will be released once family is notified.

Approximately 50 U.S. Army medical personnel, part of a Department of Defense COVID-19 operation, will be assisting healthcare providers at four Marshfield Clinic Health System hospitals this week in Marshfield, Eau Claire, Rice Lake and Beaver Dam. The medical personnel include nurses and medical technicians. U.S. Army North (ARNORTH), the Joint Force Land Component Command of U.S Northern Command, will oversee the military operation in support of Federal efforts and the state. The medical personnel are the result of a

Emily Berge announces her bid to keep her seat on the Eau Claire City Council, representing District 1 – Eau Claire’s north side. She has filed her Declaration of Candidacy with the City of Eau Claire clerk and is in the process of collecting the nomination signatures required to be on the ballot for the April 6th election. Berge was elected in 2018 to serve on the Eau Claire City Council. She currently serves on the Board of Health, the

The giving season is heating up…literally! A local heating, cooling, and pluming company is working to provide holiday meals to 200 families in our area, and we need your help! Hurlburt Heating & Plumbing is donating 100 meals (A ham, potatoes, vegetables, and cranberries) to Feed My People for a pop-up food pantry on December 22 in Augusta. But, there’s more to dish up! They will then match up to 100 more meals for each $20 donation! To be part

University of Wisconsin-Stout first-year student Tanner Tilkens is excited that a card game he has worked on this semester will be available for anyone to download, print and play. HeroFall, a two- to four-person game where players are zealots whose goal is to take down the Greek gods, is one of several dozen games and concepts that will be part of the Stout Game Expo 2020 that premieres virtually at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 9. This is the second time the biannual