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A University of Wisconsin’s health official says many people aren’t eager to participate in COVID-19 contact tracing efforts. UW’s Chief Health Quality Officer, Doctor Jeff Pothof says not even a third of those who test positive are willing to work with contact tracers.  He says the only way to help during the public health emergency is to be honest with contact tracers.  Doctor Pothof says some don’t want to reveal how they got COVID-19 because they caught it while not

Friends and colleagues are mourning the death of a Bay Port High School teacher.  Heidi Hussli died yesterday morning after being hospitalized with COVID-19.  Hussli was a German teacher at the school for 16 years.   Classes are canceled on Monday and Tuesday and counselors have been made available for faculty, staff and students. However, the family of the Bay Port teacher who passed away last week after testing positive for the coronavirus doesn’t think she caught the virus at school.

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