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Chippewa Falls police say an area near Island Street and Willow Street is open again after a gas leak. Police asked people to avoid the area last night while crews worked to fix the leak. They say the situation is resolved and the area has reopened. 

Tourism is down 20-percent in one popular Wisconsin county. The Door County peninsula is seeing the decrease from the coronavirus pandemic, but there are still outdoor leisure activities people can enjoy. The U.S. Travel Association estimates that tourism nationally is down 45-percent this year.

A bipartisan effort aims to let prospective voters know it can be done safely. VoteSafe Wisconsin is led by Attorney General Josh Kaul — and former Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen. More 715 Newsroom coverage with Jon DeMaster: Find more information at “wi-dot-votesafe-dot-us.

Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers have gone-up over the weekend and to start a new week, we will look at a variety of statistics. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported over 26 hundred new positive tests, that brings the total in Wisconsin to just over 150 thousand positives since March. DHS also reported more than seven thousand negative tests, which brings the total of negatives to over one-point-five million since March. So far, nearly 120 thousand of the 150 thousand people who’ve

Casting a vote back in 2018 has earned an Eau Claire man five days in jail. A judge sentenced Chad Armstrong to jail last week. He pleaded down from felony voter fraud to misdemeanor charges. Armstrong is a felon, he has six OWI’s, and is not allowed to vote. In 2018, he lied to get a ballot and cast his vote.

There is continued attention around a proposed heath ordinace in our area. The Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce on Friday sent an email to member businesses asking them to publicly speak-out against the new rules. The Chamber says the new health ordinance gives the city-county’s health department new powers that make it easier to shut businesses down. The Chamber’s Scott Rogers says people need to make their voices heard. Eau Claire’s city council is set to have a hearing on

Wauwatosa’s weekend curfew is set to end this morning. The city has told people to get off the streets from 7 p.m. til 6 a.m. since Thursday when prosecutors in Milwaukee decided not to bring charges against a local officer for shooting and killing Alvin Cole back in February. Wauwatosa Police arrested dozens of people over the weekend for violating the curfew. The crowds that were out in the street last night were the smallest of the weekend.Neighbors say at

The Trump campaign is making it a point to be in Wisconsin this week. The president’s daughter Ivanka will campaign in Hilbert tomorrow. Hilbert is in the Fox Valley, which is seen as crucial to the president. In addition to Ivanka, the Trump campaign is sending the president’s son Eric and VP Mike Pence to Wisconsin this week as well.

It is the time of year when the state of Wisconsin tells drivers to hit deer. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation is out with its annual warning about deer in the road. This is the time of year when deer are most active, that means plenty of deer in the road at dusk and dawn. WisDot says it is better to hit the deer than to swerve and possibly cause a worse crash by going into a ditch or hitting a tree.

Ten percent of the state’s restaurants are closed down for good due to the COVID-19 shutdown.  The Wisconsin Restaurant Association also says unless there is government assistance available to provide relief for struggling food service providers, more restaurants will be closing down.  News3Now reported yesterday that WRA vice president Susan Quam says back in the spring no one knew the COVID-19 shutdown would still be in place into the fall and early winter. She says a restaurant’s business model is not structured