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The average cost of regular gas in Wisconsin is 17-cents-a-gallon lower than the national average.  Triple-A says the price per gallon in the Badger State is $2.01 today.  The price at the pump is 2.01 in Madison,  two-dollars in Milwaukee, Racine and Kenosha County and Wausau and 2.03 in Madison.  Drivers are paying $2.18 nationwide.

On September 17th at 1 p.m., the Sawyer County Dispatch Center received information from the Bayfield County Sheriffs Office regarding a bicycle crash with injury. The crash was located in the Town of Spider Lake approximately h mile south of Camp 38 Road on a single-track bicycle trail. Upon arrival, Fire and EMS personnel found 67 year old Joseph A. Timmerman, of Hayward, deceased at the scene of the crash. Witness statements indicate that Timmerman lost control of his bicycle

Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin native and Chippewa Falls Senior High School graduate DeShawn Richardson is serving aboard USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during Exercise Valiant Shield, Sept. 14-25.  Valiant Shield focuses on integration of training in a blue-water environment. This training enables real-world proficiency in sustaining joint forces through detecting, locating, tracking, and engaging units at sea, in the air, on land, and cyberspace in response to a range of mission areas. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE

Attorney General Josh Kaul announced today charges against 62 year old Lori Kleinhans of Sheboygan County, in connection with alleged schemes to defraud Medicaid both as a provider and recipient of Medicaid benefits. The investigation was conducted by the Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ). According to the criminal complaint, Kleinhans was a nurse that consistently billed Medicaid for twelve hours of work per day for providing in-home care to a frail toddler in the summer of 2018. Surveillance camera footage,

A ban on utility shut-offs is extended through next April.  Wisconsin Public Service commissioners voted 2-1 yesterday to extend the ban put in place last March. Wisconsin residents struggling to pay electricity and gas service will continue to have services until April 15th, 2021.

A hearing to place a convicted sex offender in Chippewa County will happen at the end of the month. Last January, Jeffrey Neubecker was ordered placement in the county by a Kenosha County Circuit Court judge. Chippewa County officials tried to stop the placement in February. Neubecker has been filing for release since 2001. 

The largest donation in the history of the University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering will help start a new scholarship program. The school received 32-million-dollars from the Grainger Foundation. They say 20-million will be used for scholarships that focus on diversifying the undergraduate student body. The school plans to match another 20-million in the next five-years. 

Eau Claire is getting a little Campaign 2020 action. Vice President Mike Pence will speak at Midwest Manufacturing in Eau Claire next week. It is just the latest visit for the Trump/Pence ticket. President Trump was in Mosinee last night. VP Pence was in Janesville on Monday. The hundreds of people who greeted President Trump in Mosinee got a reminder about what the economy looked like before the coronavirus hit. The President last night told the crowd that Wisconsin’s two best

The numbers are larger, but Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus snapshot hasn’t changed. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported a record 2.034 positive tests yesterday. But while that is more positives than ever before, most of those positives continue to be among college-aged people in college towns. DHS says more people are recovering from the virus. DHS says over 86 percent of people who’ve tested positive since March have fully recovered.

City leaders in Menomonie are not quite ready to require masks til the end of the year. The city council last night postponed a vote on a city-based mask mandate. Governor Evers’ mask requirement is set to end at the end of the month, and Menomonie’s mayor said earlier in the week that he wanted to be ready in case the governor didn’t extend that order. Last night, city council members said they want to look at all of the