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An Eau Claire man is accused of digging a grave and threatening to kill his father and bury him in it.  Police say they found a long rectangular hole in the ground at a house last week.  A criminal complaint claims Ryan Davey dug the hole and threatened to kill his father and put him in it.  Davey’s facing three charges in the case.  He’s out on bond and will return to court next month.

It’s been one year since western Wisconsin got the news of the tragic deaths of three young Girl Scouts from Lake Hallie. Friends and family members turned out yesterday to remember Jayna Kelley, Autumn Helgeson, Haylee Hickle, and her mother Sara Jo Schneider. Police say a driver who was high, ran them down while they were picking-up trash along the highway. Troop 3055 says they will never forget the girls, and the community in Lake Hallie is making sure that never happens.

If you have parking tickets in Menomonie, you may want to hit the grocery store before you head to pay them off. The city is allowing people to pay their tickets with food donations. You get two dollars off the ticket price for each item you donate. The Menomonie Police Department’s Brenna Jasper says this is the fourth year for the program, and the city has brought-in more than three-thousand pounds of food and written off nearly six-thousand-dollars’ worth of

Wisconsin’s governor is going to need to figure-out about a new Ag Secretary soon. The state Senate is set to vote tomorrow on DATCP Secretary Brad Pfaff, but there aren’t enough votes to keep him on the job. Governor Evers says he cannot believe lawmakers are rejecting Pfaff, who’s been with the agency since January. Pfaff is upset that Republican lawmakers would not spend 200-thousand-dollars on rural suicide prevention efforts. Meanwhile, we have a vote in. Dairy farmers in Wisconsin aren’t going

The gavel dropped with a guilty verdict. After days of testimony, it took a jury just over 3 hours and they came back with guilty. Ezra McCandless was found guilty of first degree intentional homicide in a Dunn County courtroom Friday for the murder of Alexander Woodworth in March. In the defense’s closing argument, they said McCandless was, “fighting for her life”, claiming her actions were in defense to saver herself. Defense Attorney Aaron nelson continued to claim she was

The numbers are in, and Halloween 2019 is one for the record books. Forecasters say snow broke records for an October 31st snowfall. Milwaukee officially saw five-point-four inches of snow, and that’s a new record for the snowiest Halloween ever. The National Weather Service says several other communities in southeast Wisconsin also set new records. And with Halloween over for another years, it’s on to the next one. Bring on Turkey Day. A long list of stars will be back out on Broadway

The average cost for regular gas in Wisconsin edged down four-cents-a-gallon compared to a week ago.  Triple-A says the price statewide is two-dollars-and-41-cents today.  That’s 20 cents below the national average and the lowest among the surrounding states.  The price at the pump is two-43 in Michigan, two-44 in Iowa, two-50 in Minnesota and two-60-a-gallon in Illinois.

A group of community members interested in donating 720 solar panels tothe Eau Claire Area School District will present their proposal to the Board of Education on Monday, November 4. The group includes Memorial High School alumnus Cal Couillard from the Couillard Solar Foundation, an organization that would contribute half the panels. The other half would come from an anonymous donor. If approved, ECASD would not incur any costs for the project, as the Couillard Solar Foundation would work to

The success of Scottish director, Steven Lewis Simpson’s adaptation of thebest-selling novel, Neither Wolf Nor Dog, defies logic—Hollywood logic that is. It was audience-financed within 18 shoot days, a tiny crew, a 95-year-old star and a self-distributed release that started in small towns and is outperforming Hollywood blockbusters in numerous multiplexes. And now, it comes to our area. In partnership with the Heyde Center for the Arts, Neither Wolf Nor Dog will be screening to the community as a very

The Office of Multicultural Affairs, the Inter-Tribal Student Council and the American Indian studies program are partnering to sponsor and curate UW-Eau Claire’s celebration of Native American Heritage Month in November. Gary Garvin, a student intern in the Office of Multicultural Affairs who has played a key role in developing this year’s events, says the month will help people of the campus and greater Eau Claire communities learn about, better understand and appreciate Native American cultures and histories.  “It’s a