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Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says the election is over and it’s time for an orderly transfer of power to President-elect Joe Biden.  The former Wisconsin Congress member made the comments Tuesday during a virtual conference.  Ryan said attacks against the U.S. election system need to stop and noted the importance of the General Services Administration formally beginning the transition to the next administration.  Ryan says the outcome of the election is settled and further attacks will only undermine our collective faith

Wisconsin’s Tourism Secretary Sara Meaney is resigning to take a position outside state government.  Governor Tony Evers made the announcement Wednesday.  Meaney was appointed by Evers in December of 2018.  Deputy Secretary Anne Sayers will serve as the department’s interim secretary.

If you have a sweet tooth and like math, this might be your own personal Venn Diagram meets. For University of Wisconsin-Stout students in a mechatronics class, the sweetest part of their semester involved creating a candy machine that required all the elements they had learned. Mechatronics 371 students taught by Kevin Dietsche, a senior lecturer in the engineering and technology department, unveiled their candy dispensing machines on Nov. 18 in person with masks and social distancing. Each dispenser had

 It’s the latest sign that the Packers are pretty good this year. The NFL yesterday moved the Packers and Panthers game to a 7:15 kickoff on Saturday December 19th. It’s part of a doubleheader that night. That game was originally up in the air. The NFL told the Packers at the beginning of the season they would either play on that Saturday, or the following Sunday.

 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.