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Eau Claire Transit is planning to resume collecting fares on Monday, October 5, 2020. Passes will be available to purchase at all Festival Foods locations in Eau Claire and by appointment only at City Hall, L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library, and the Transit Administrative Office. Fares have not changed and are as follows: FULL FARE $1.75INCOME-QUALIFYING FARE $1.50REDUCED FARE $0.85K-12 STUDENT FARE $1.25DAY PASS $3.75SINGLE RIDE TICKETS 3 FOR $4SENIOR/REDUCED FARE TICKETS 13 FOR $10FULL FARE MONTHLY PASS $50INCOME-QUALIFYING MONTHLY

An Eau Claire man who admitted beating his neighbor to death wants to be released from a state mental institution. James Olson was found not guilty by insanity for the 2012 beating death of Paul Oberle. This week, Olson petitioned the court for conditional release. A hearing on his latest motion will be held in December.

Chippewa Falls police are teaming up with the Family Support Center to try and prevent domestic violence related homicides in the city. There were 14 more deaths by domestic homicide in Wisconsin in 2019 than the year before, according to a Wisconsin Domestic Violence Homicide report. Some of their efforts include a new screening protocol to identify domestic violence victims, which went into effect yesterday. They say October is domestic violence awareness month. 

President Donald Trump has revealed early Friday morning that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19.  This news coming just hours after a group of doctors and some government officials in Wisconsin urged the President to cancel campaign rallies in the state this weekend.  The President, who just took part in the first presidential debate with candidate Joe Biden days ago, says that he and his wife have begun the quarantine process.  Meanwhile, more than 28-hundred new cases

Health officials are labeling the COVID-19 rate as very high in Eau Claire. They also say 33-percent of those who became infected don’t know where they contracted the virus.  There have been more than two-thousand confirmed coronavirus cases in Eau Claire since the beginning of the pandemic. One more coronavirus related death was reported yesterday, bringing the death total to seven. Thirteen more coronavirus cases are being reported in Chippewa County.  That’s according to the latest information from county health

An Eau Claire man is accused of being in possession of child pornography. Yesterday 34-year-old Derek Demars was charged on ten counts of possessing child pornography. Authorities say an investigation began on Demars back in February.  Demars was arrested on Wednesday after a search warrant was issued at his residence.

 The FBI is now offering a ten-thousand-dollar reward for information regarding the shooting at a Milwaukee funeral home Wednesday afternoon.  Seven people were injured in the shooting outside the serenity Funeral Home near 42nd and Fond du Lac.  Police say the shooting was a result of an ongoing feud between two separate parties.  Anyone with information on the incident is asked to call Milwaukee Police or the Milwaukee Crime Stoppers.     And in the wake of recent violence in the

The Milwaukee Brewers season has come to an end after losing to Dodgers in L.A. Thursday.  The Brewers lineup was dazzled by one of the best in the biz, Clayton Kershaw who went eight innings, striking out 13.  The Dodgers sweep the best-of-three NL Wild Card series two games to none.  The Brewers, meanwhile, finished the regular season 29 and 31, under .500, but making the eighth seed of the expanded playoffs.           

Governor Tony Evers issues a new emergency order in hopes of increasing the healthcare workforce.  The governor says the order is intended to make it easier for qualified people to work in healthcare facilities across the state.  The order makes some adjustments to licensing procedures and also extends work licenses that were set to expire.  The COVID-19 crisis has caused enormous strain on healthcare workers and the system.

Wisconsin sets another single day record for positive coronavirus tests.  The Health Department says there were nearly 29-hundred new COVID-19 positive results today.  Twenty-one deaths were also reported, raising the death toll to 13-hundred-and-48 residents. Officials in Appleton are sounding as many alarms as they can as the healthcare system faces an overwhelming number of coronavirus cases.  Appleton mayor Jake Woodford called the situation extraordinary and dangerous.  He says the entire community has to become involved in preventing the virus by