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In a year when Wisconsin lawmakers expect to be two billion-dollars short, the state’s superintendent is asking for nearly a billion-and-a-half dollars more. State Superintendent Carolyn Standford-Smith yesterday submitted her budget request. It includes one-point-four billion-dollars more for schools. More than half of the money would go toward school aid, but there’s also hundreds of millions that she’d like to spend on everything from mental health and teacher supports to Drivers Ed and public libraries. Governor Evers had asked state agencies not

Addressing the state this evening, Governor Evers acknowledged the struggles of 2020 and urged Wisconsinites to continue to take stricter measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 as our state hits record cases. Ahead of the holidays, sheltering at home was encouraged and the order continues to stress the importance of wearing a mask and limiting gatherings. CLICK HERE TO READ THE LATEST ORDER FROM GOVERNOR EVERS

Governor Tony Evers will deliver a statewide address on COVID-19.  The governor’s office says he will deliver his speech around 6:00 this evening.  The state reported nearly 71-hundred new COVID-19 cases today, breaking the previous one-day record set on Saturday.  There are also a record 66 deaths reported today.

Police in Sauk County will be releasing information regarding a murder at Devil’s Lake State Park.  The County Sheriff’s Office will hold a press conference tomorrow morning, but did not give out specifics except to say it is about the fatal stabbing of John Schmuzter last month.  Schmutzer was stabbed in broad daylight near the park’s Grotto’s Trail.  The suspect is a man described as between five-foot-ten and six feet tall, wearing a dark head covering and face covering.  He

 A 55-foot tall Colorado Engelman spruce tree is starting its trip to the nation’s capital to serve as the U.S. Capitol Christmas Tree.  The spruce was cut down last Thursday and loaded onto a semitrailer for its 17-hundred mile trip from Colorado to Washington, D.C.  Each year a new tree is selected from among the country’s 155 National Forests to be displayed on the west lawn of the Capitol building.

As the state wrestles with rising Coronavirus cases, locally the message from our health care system urges the public to take it seriously. STATEMENT FROM MAYO: Our COVID-19 situation is constantly evolving with admissions and discharges, but as of Tuesday afternoon, Mayo Clinic Health System in Northwest Wisconsin had 83 COVID positive inpatients; that includes our hospitals in Barron, Bloomer, Eau Claire, Osseo and Menomonie. In addition, COVID-19 testing operations at Mayo Clinic Health System in Northwest Wisconsin are generating

On November 7th, Sawyer County Deputies were dispatched to the Town of Spider Lake to look for a vehicle containing a subject who had reportedly been involved in a theft in Ashland County. Shortly after 10:00am, a Sawyer County Deputy located the vehicle near the intersection of State Highway 77 and County Highway OO. As the deputy neared, the suspect vehicle took off westbound at speeds in excess of 100 MPH.  The pursuit continued into the City of Hayward, where

On November 7th at nearly 3 in the morning, a Sawyer County Deputy observed a silver colored sedan traveling southbound at a very high rate of speed near the intersection of CTH K and CTH E in Bass Lake Township. When the deputy attempted to stop the vehicle, the driver accelerated in an attempt to flee from the deputy.  The pursuit continued south where the suspect vehicle reached speeds in excess of 100 MPH. The pursuit then continued southbound onto

The Chippewa County Administrator and County Board Chair announced today that all nonessential functions at Chippewa County buildings will be closed to the general public in an effort to help reduce the rate of COVID-19 transmission and to protect residents and employees of Chippewa County. Effective at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 11, 2020, all facilities will be closed to the general public. Anyone needing to do business at Chippewa County buildings should call ahead and be prepared to make

In the lower level of the Memorial Student Center, Monday evenings means mask-making for some University of Wisconsin-Stout students. While some of them cut fabric, others pin it together. In another area, a sewing machine is set up to finish the masks. The students are working toward the goal of 2,000 masks to give to Menomonie elementary schools to help protect children, curb the spread of COVID-19 and give to others. Megan Otte, a sophomore studying interior design started the