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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library is the winner of a national award.  The library was recently selected by the U.S. Government Publishing Office as the 2019 Federal Depository Library of the Year.  Reports say the library has been a member of the Federal Depository Library Program since 1951.

Planners for next summer’s Democratic National Convention are, once again, putting out the call for volunteers. Convention organizers yesterday said they need 15-thousand volunteers to help with next summer’s convention in Milwaukee. Volunteers are needed for everything from picking people up from the airport to working during the convention at Fiserv Forum.

City leaders in Eau Claire are looking to go on the record as saying they don’t support racism. The city council is expected to vote for a resolution tonight that condemns a note that a UW Eau Claire student says she found on her dorm room door earlier this fall. The resolution says Eau Claire is a place where everyone should feel welcome.

The first of three public forums to find a new superintendent in Eau Claire is this week. Eau Claire school board members last night agreed to start looking for Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck’s replacement. She is leaving at the end of the school year. The school board says three public forums will help them decide what they are looking for. The school district will then expand its search across the country to find a new superintendent before the start of

Just because Sean Duffy is no longer in politics doesn’t mean he won’t be talking about politics on TV. The former congressman for the northwoods yesterday announced that he’s been hired as a political contributor at CNN. Duffy left Congress last month to spend more time with his wife and nine kids. Duffy is still talked about as a possible candidate for governor or U.S. Senate here in Wisconsin in 2022. Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court want to know if there is a

Some people on unemployment in Wisconsin could soon have to pass a drug test to get their benefits. The Department of Labor is giving Wisconsin and several other states the green light to test people in certain jobs as part of the condition to receive unemployment benefits. But it likely won’t happen anytime soon. Governor Evers says the state is in the beginning stages of the program. He also says he doesn’t want to take benefits away from anyone.

A response to a fire just after 4 on Saturday morning leads to the discovery of a dead man. The Eau Claire Police Department and Eau Claire Fire Department responded to a structure fire in the 600 block of Congress Street and once able to get inside discovered a body. The initial investigation has determined responders were called to the residence for a report of an intruder and the home was on fire. After the tenant confronted an intruder in

TRICK O’ TREAT! UWEC is preparing to host the ghosts and gobins. Residence halls at UW-Eau Claire will offer trick-or-treating for area children Oct. 31 in celebration of Halloween. From 5-7 p.m., door-to-door trick-or-treating will be offered in Chancellors, Oak Ridge, Governors and Murray residence halls. Students offering candy will have orange decorations on their room doors to indicate that trick-or-treaters are welcome. Also from 5-7 p.m., lobby-only trick-or-treating will be offered in Aspenson-Mogensen, Bridgman, Horan, Karlgaard Towers, Thomas, Putnam,

Governor Tony Evers is calling for a special session for the Wisconsin Legislature to take up gun control bills.  The session is set for November 7th, but already leaders of the Republican dominated State House and Senate say they won’t take up the proposals.  Nothing requires the legislature to move on the governor’s request.  Republicans see it as an attack on the Second Amendment while the governor says the vast majority of Wisconsinites show support for universal background checks and red flag laws.

Property owners in the Eau Claire school district should have lower taxes next year.  Schools announced last Friday they’re projecting the first balanced budget in the last nine years.  They say this will cause the tax levee to drop slightly.  They say the owner of a 150-thousand dollar home will pay about 36 dollars less in property taxes.