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UW System President Tommy Thompson is proposing an expansion of the free tuition program.  The program is currently in place for low-income students at UW-Madison.  If approved by the Board of Regents, the governor’s office and State Legislature, all the University of Wisconsin schools would be able to adopt the program.  The program covers four years of tuition for incoming freshmen whose family’s adjusted gross income is less than 60-thousand-dollars. 

La Crosse County is receiving a $250,000 state grant to help fund the second phase of a renovation project for a new Boys & Girls Club and community center in Holmen. The Community Development Investment Grant from the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) will support a collaborative effort between the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater La Crosse, Holmen Area Community Center, and the School District of Holmen to renovate the 35,000-square-foot former home of Festival Foods into a new

In a time where people are getting creative, a local gym is combining the forces of brain and brawn! Gold’s Gym/Days Gone By announced the launch of a School Age Daycare Program. In lieu of the recent changes to the traditional school week, they will be providing daycare for school age children ages 5k – 12 years old, Monday-Friday 6AM-6PM. Bus transportation will be provided to and from school. During time at the program they will provide virtual learning assistance,

An accident on the interstate resulted in a lane closure today. It was just before 6:30 on Thursday morning when a crash occurred on I-94 WB at I-94 westbound at mile marker 53, east of STH 29 in Dunn County near Elk Mound. A report came in of a straight truck that rolled over in the lane of traffic on I-94 just east of exit 52. When Troopers arrived on scene the truck; which was hauling bulk item canned goods,

A new online tool could help people make safe choices to prevent the spread of COVID-19. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services launched a COVID-19 Decision Tool that takes users through a set of questions that could help them assess the risk level in the area and make decisions about attending large gatherings and wearing personal protective equipment. Eau Claire City-County Health Director Lieske Giese said it’s a useful tool. It can be found on the Department of Health Services

The Eau Claire County Board of Supervisors is deciding how to move forward after a one-point-two-million-dollar accounting error was found in the Department of Human Services Budget. The board was supposed to vote last night on a forensic audit to evaluate the department’s financial record, but the board didn’t vote. Instead, they decided to look further into what the scope of the audit will be. This comes after former D-H-S employee Zer Smith was charged for stealing from the department.

Wisconsin State Patrol and the Altoona Police Department are tracking speeders from the sky. The Altoona Police Department says the fastest clocked speed yesterday was 101-miles-per hour on Highway-53. They were out there until about 3 p.m. 

There is a noticeable drop in the number of people being tested for the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 663 new positive tests and just under nine thousand negative tests. Yesterday was the fourth straight day that Wisconsin processed under ten thousand tests. The number of people in the hospital with the virus also ticked up in yesterday’s report, to 388. Eau Claire County’s public health office is once again suggesting people who were at Scooter’s in

An Eau Claire woman is looking at ten years in prison after police say they caught her with meth and a loaded pistol. The D.A. yesterday charged 31-year-old Diana Xiong with drug and weapons charges. Police arrested her back in June, they say she was selling the meth in late May and early June. Xiong faces ten years in federal prison on the gun charges, and 20 years in prison on the drug charges.

Teachers in Cadott are likely going to have to do a bit more review to start the school year. Superintendent Jenny Starck yesterday said she expects to see some academic loss in kids who have not been in school for over five months. The so-called “Summer-Slide” is always an issue, but this year’s summer break was a lot longer than usual. Kids in Cadott start in-person classes on September 1st. And as we look to the classroom return, the people