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Eau Claire is getting some funding from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The department is giving parts of a 100-million-dollar transportation fund that will improve roadways and general transportation to every city in the state. The report from the department shows Eau Claire will receive OVER $850,000 that will be distributed over four-payments throughout the year. Chippewa Falls is also receiving 170-thousand-dollars in funding.

There’s less traffic on the road after Governor Evers safer at home order. Data from the Wisconsin Department of Transportation shows a drop in the average overall vehicles on Highway-53 in Eau Claire from 42-thousand the week of March 8th to nearly half that, two weeks later. In Chippewa County, the traffic drop was similar, down from more than 12-thousand vehicles in mid-March to around eight-thousand in the end of the month.

Viterbo University is opening its residence halls to medical workers next week. The school just finished its second week of online classes and the campus is mostly empty with students back home due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Vice President of Student Affairs Rick Trietely says last week the school got a request from three organizations to offer housing for non-coronavirus infected healthcare workers and first responders. The school says it will open two-floors in the Bonaventure Residence Hall on April

Time has run out to send in an absentee ballot. A U.S. Supreme Court decision Monday night threw out a lower court ruling to extend the absentee ballot deadline to April 13th. The new ruling said all absentee ballots must have been submitted last night or postmarked yesterday to be counted, though they can arrive at the office as late as April 13th. The Eau Claire County dropbox is now closed.

It is going to be almost a week before voters in Eau Claire know who won yesterday’s elections. The state’s Election Commission says local clerks cannot count their votes until next Monday. There may not be that many votes to count. Turnout in many places in the Chippewa Valley was light yesterday. In Eau Claire, the city’s clerk said yesterday afternoon’s turnout was just 34-percent. Wisconsin’s National Guard commanders say their work on Election Day was a success. Over 24-hundred

As we are at the mid week point in what we were warned would be a bad week, we will take a look at the cliff notes-AND there are some points of light that might be showing at the end of the tunnel as well. As we follow the latest of the world pandemic, there is a lot (A LOT!) of information to digest, we will break it down from the larger (World) scope and work our way here to

An Eau Claire County man is looking at charges after investigators say he almost shot his neighbor. The sheriff’s office says Jason Moessner was shooting his pistol toward his neighbor’s house. The neighbor says he was almost hit. Prosecutors filed second degree recklessly endangering safety charges this week. This is not Moessner’s first gun charge. He was arrested in 2018 after police say he shot at his truck during the Winterfest games on Lake Altoona.

Leaders in Chippewa County are asking people to tell them what they need during this coronavirus outbreak. The county is asking people to fill out a community needs assessment. It’s an online survey that the Chippewa County Department of Public Health can then use to tell state and federal leaders what the needs are. You can find the survey at the county’s website, in the coronavirus information section. CLICK HERE TO LET LEADERS KNOW WHAT NEEDS ARE

Polls close across the state at 8:00 tonight but don’t expect results for several days.  Voters are allowed to submit absentee ballots as long as they are postmarked by today, April 7th and received by Monday.  It will take a couple of days for clerks to collect all the ballots so now the counting deadline is at 4 p.m. Monday, April 13th.  The Wisconsin Elections Commission says no totals will be released today.  As our Primary Election continues today, voting across the

Positive coronavirus cases in Wisconsin now stand at 25-hundred-and-78.  There are 92 total deaths reported today, 15 more than yesterday.  There have been eleven deaths confirmed in Dane County, 49 in Milwaukee County, seven in Ozaukee County and five deaths in Waukesha County.