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We now know more about a fire at a local business. One person is in the hospital after a fire at a salvage yard. The Township Fire Department said a fire at Randy’s Auto Sales and Salvage burned for several hours yesterday before they could put it out. Firefighters said they had a hard time getting into the building because of falling debris. They still don’t know what caused it. 

Western Dairyland is planning an outreach day to help the homeless. The Western Dairyland Economic Opportunity Council is conducting its annual homeless count overnight on July 27th. Communications Director Dale Karls said the point is not just to count how many people are impacted by homelessness, but to help them enroll in programs that help them find housing. Karls said they’ll be collecting data for five days, following social distancing guidelines. 

About 93-percent of the people in Wisconsin’s latest round of coronavirus tests came back negative. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported just over a thousand positive tests and just over 14-thousand negative tests. That negative test number set a record for the second straight day. Hospitalizations increased as well. DHS says 210 people are being treated for the virus, but that is down by over 100 from earlier this week. CLICK HERE FOR MORE LOCAL UPDATES FROM EAU CLAIRE

There will be high school football this year in Wisconsin, it will just start a little later. The WIAA yesterday voted to delay the start of football, boys’ soccer, and volleyball by a month til September 7th. The WIAA board says those are ‘high risk sports’ when it comes to the coronavirus. ‘Low risk sports’ like golf, swimming, cross country and tennis are being pushed back by a week.

Wisconsin’s governor is being very clear, he hasn’t asked for and doesn’t want more federal agents coming into the state. The governor yesterday said he sent President Trump a letter explaining that. Milwaukee is on the list of cities where President Trump is sending agents. The President says there is a need to stop the bloodshed in Milwaukee. Homicides in Milwaukee are more than double this point last year. The governor said amping-up the federal presence in the city will

The man found with 67-pounds of cocaine in the back of a U-Haul in April of last year is heading to prison. A judge yesterday sentenced Samuel Serrano to nine years in prison. Investigators say the bust, which was made at the Menards distribution center, was the largest drug bust in Eau Claire County history. Serrano pleaded no contest to the charges.

Just about everyone who works for Eau Claire, except the sheriff’s office and 911, is taking an unpaid day off today. County supervisors last night approved a furlough plan that will essentially shutdown county government one day a month until the end of the year. Today is the first furlough day. Supervisor Colleen Bates says the furloughs will help the county overcome what is expected to be a million-dollar-plus deficit because of the coronavirus.

The VFW in Wisconsin says it is long-past-time for someone to clean-up the mess at the state’s veterans’ museum in Madison. VFW State Commander Jason Johns sent an open letter to state leaders demanding that they be allowed to clean-up after protests in late May turned violent. Johns says a group of volunteers has raised enough money to pay to remove graffiti from the museum’s building and restore what was damaged inside. But he said the Wisconsin Veterans Museum Foundation and the Wisconsin Department of Veterans

The University of Wisconsin Eau Claire yesterday announced it is offering a new major in public health. Dr. Karen Mumford says public health is not only top of mind these days, it is in demand. As part of the new major, students will be required to take classes in epidemiology, health policy, and environmental public health.

Milwaukee, Madison, Green Bay, and Racine all have mask mandates, and the rest of the state could soon have one as well. Governor Evers yesterday said he is considering a statewide mask mandate to counter the rising coronavirus numbers. The governor says he is still unsure of his options in light of the Wisconsin Supreme Court decision that struck down his safer at home order, but he said his office is monitoring the situation.