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Wisconsin is hoping that people get out and enjoy the outdoors this weekend. The state’s Department of Natural Resources says this weekend is the annual Free Fun Weekend. That means all state parks will be open, and free. Same goes for ATV trails. Fishermen don’t need a license this weekend. And all boat launches in the state will be open as well. The only thing that will not be open is the state’s campgrounds. Those are closed because of the coronavirus.

The weekend protests in Eau Claire never turned violent like in other places here in our state. A few hundred people marched through downtown Eau Claire yesterday. It was one of many protests that have followed George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last week. Organizer Jaylin Carlson says the goal of the entire march was to raise awareness and do it in a peaceful and safe way. But that wasn’t the story everywhere. Milwaukee Police say another day of protests turned

Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers are down. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 173 positive tests yesterday, and just over seven thousand negative tests. That brings the state’s positive-test-rate to just two-point-three percent. That is the lowest it’s ever been. On the heels of weekend protests, Eau Claire’s public health boss says protests are allowed under the county’s coronavirus emergency order. Health director Lieske Giese yesterday said the hundreds of people who marched through downtown Eau Claire did not technically

Leaders at the Chippewa Valley Technical College say their next budget may be smaller despite a 49 million-dollar tax increase. CVTC President Bruce Barker says he expects less money from the state of Wisconsin next year. He says about 40 percent of the school’s money comes from the state. Barker says they are trying to be very conservative in their cost projections.

The push to get more people in Wisconsin to vote by mail will cost at least four million-dollars. The Wisconsin Election Commission announced on Friday that it plans to spend four million-dollars to mail almost every voter in the state an absentee ballot application. The money is coming from the state’s coronavirus stimulus fund. WEC Administrator Meagan Wolfe says the money will be shared with local election managers who will do most of the heavy lifting for the November election.

Peaceful protests in Madison, Wisconsin became destructive Saturday night.   Police say two officers were hurt while working to quell the violence that erupted on Madison’s streets during a George Floyd protest.  Rioters were throwing rocks and other objects at officers and set a police unit on fire.  The vandals damaged multiple places of businesses including Goodman’s Jewelers with reports of scattered acts of looting.  This, as Wisconsin joins nine states and the nation’s capital calling in the National Guard to help restore

Welcome to your weekend. As we continue to live and write pages in our history, here are some quick events that have happened on this day in past pages: Today is Saturday, May 30th, the 151st day of the year.  There are 216 days until the end of the year. On this day: In 1783, “The Pennsylvania Evening Post” became the first daily newspaper in the United States. In 1868, Memorial Day was observed for the first time in the

 About 50 people have been arrested in the Minneapolis protests against the death of George Floyd.  Minnesota Department of Public Safety Commissioner John Harrington told a news conference that over 25-hundred officers are helping to keep the peace in Minneapolis, where George Floyd died while in police custody this week.  Harrington said it’s one of the largest civil police forces the state of Minnesota has ever seen.  He added, though, resources are stretched thin, with thousands of protesters estimated to have turned out

A Colfax woman is dead after a rollover crash. It happened about accident at about 12:45 pm on Friday, May 29th when the Wisconsin State Patrol and Washburn County Sheriff’s Office responded to a one vehicle rollover crash on US 53 in Washburn County near milepost 154 southbound. The initial investigation indicated the vehicle lost control, entered the ditch and rolled several times. The backseat passenger, was ejected from the vehicle during the crash. The driver, 18 year old Axel

A fired Minnesota cop is being charged with third-degree murder in the killing of an unarmed black man.  Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman announced the charges against Derek Chavin this afternoon. Chauvin is the officer who was filmed with his knee on the neck of George Floyd on Memorial Day.  Police responded to a convenience store in the area after someone called 911 claiming a person believed to be Floyd used a counterfeit bill and appeared drunk.  Here across the