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Eau Claire County’s public health boss is worried about the local jump in coronavirus cases. City-County health director Lieske Giese yesterday said 24 more people tested positive for the coronavirus Saturday, Sunday, and yesterday. She said many of the cases can be tied back to local bars and restaurants. Giese says she fears people are not wearing their masks or staying socially distant. Since March, 218 people in Eau Claire County have tested positive for the virus. Giese says 148

Eau Claire Police want to know who is putting homemade spike strips in city streets. Officers released pictures of the strips yesterday. They are essentially two-by-fours with about 25 nails in them. Police found them in the road at Menomonie and Clairemont, Menomonie and Ferry, and Fifth and Hudson. Police are asking for tips in finding the culprit.

More changes are coming before Election Day in Wisconsin. A federal appeals court yesterday unanimously reinstated most of the state’s 2016 election law changes. The ruling means early voting in Wisconsin will be shrunk to two weeks, people have to live in the state for at least a month in order to vote, and voters won’t be able to get their ballots by email or fax. The court said the law was written to benefit Republicans, but it does not make it tougher

Wisconsin’s insurance commissioner is making it clear that insurance policies in the state must cover healthcare for trans people. Commissioner Mark Afable sent a memo to insurance companies yesterday explaining that his order includes breast removal and breast enhancement surgeries. Afable says the recent Supreme Court decision on trans discrimination applies to healthcare decisions as well, not just workplace decisions. The memo means taxpayers will likely be the ones responsible for the surgeries for trans people enrolled in the state’s

Showers and thunderstorms that moved through Wisconsin early this morning and additional forecasted heavy rain will result in increased levels on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire. At 8 a.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read just over 761 feet, which is 12 feet below the flood stage reading of 773 feet. The current crest projection is for just over 764 feet tomorrow. At this level the river will have entered Action stage and, as a safety measure,

The search for a missing boater on Lake Kegonsa continues.  Crews in Dane County are looking for the man who was last seen Saturday night jumping off a boat.  The dive team scoured the area at Fish Camp County Park in McFarland yesterday and closed the area where the search was underway.  A dive team is not being used in the search today but a drone is.

 The deadline to apply for the Wisconsin Farm Support Program is just about up.  Applications must be submitted by 11:59 tonight to be eligible for payment from one-thousand to 35-hundred-dollars.  More information is available at WITH AN EASY CLICK HERE.

Early on Sunday morning the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office received a report of crash near the Buffalo Trempealeau County Line. Searching by law enforcement located the crash on CTY P near the intersection with Piepers Valley Rd. When emergency crews arrived on scene, they found a 2016 Ford F-150 down over an embankment on a curve. One of the occupants was in the grass walking around, this was Payne Kramer. A few moments later 51 year old Scott Johnson was

Several roads are closed this morning after heavy rainfall and storms over the weekend. The Baldwin Police Department said due to extreme flooding, travel near Baldwin, Woodville, and Hammond is not advised. The police department said Highway-63 and L-Road are not passable and very dangerous. Road blocks are currently in place to keep drivers away. Officials in Ellsworth and Colfax are also reporting several flooded roads. The Xcel Energy Electric Outage Map shows around 200 Menomonie residents are waking up