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Troopers with the Wisconsin State Patrol are helping deliver coronavirus test kits as well as samples to be tested.  Officials today say troopers across the state are available in case hospital couriers become overwhelmed with demand.  The State Hygiene Lab in Madison is one of a number of labs now accepting coronavirus samples for testing.

Governor Tony Evers is urging those people who can donate blood to do so as soon as possible.  The governor tweeted today that the Red Cross needs help.  He’s encouraging people who are healthy and feeling well to make an appointment to donate.

The Diocese of La Crosse says Catholics are excused from attending Mass during the coronavirus crisis.  Governor Evers ordered a ban on public gatherings of 50 people or more yesterday.  Shortly after Bishop William Callahan announced that all Masses, likely including Easter, will be canceled until further notice.

As we are spending more time together with family and indoors, maybe your life is starting to feel like a jungle! Well, now you and the little wild animals can escape to the real thing….well, virtually. The Cincinnati Zoo is live streaming some of its animals each afternoon to people stuck inside their homes during the coronavirus outbreak. 

Less than two years after graduating from Bloomer High School, Riley Henneman stood next to the rubber mixer he built at the Chippewa Valley Technical College Manufacturing Education Center. The second-year Automation Engineering Technology student was prepared to demonstrate it to visitors at CVTC’s Manufacturing Show Thursday, March 12. “It’s crazy the stuff you learn in two years,” Henneman said. “When you come in your first year there’s a lot to take in, and by the time you’re done, you

There are now 46 active cases of the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says as of Monday, that number is up 14-cases from Sunday afternoon. The department says one of those cases has been recovered and the individual was released from isolation in Dane County. There have been ten reported cases of COVID-19 in Dane County 11 in Fond du Lac 13 in Milwaukee 3 cases in Sheboygan, Waukesha and Winnebago Counties, 1 case in Outagamie, Pierce, Racine, and

The ban on mass gatherings of 50-people or more is effecting everyone. The owner of one Chippewa Falls funeral home is suspending all funeral services and others are leaving the decision to individual families and churches. Mike Horan is the owner of Horan Funeral Home in Chippewa Falls. He says funerals usually draw in 75-to-100-people. Horan says many of those in attendance are older and in the “at risk” population for COVID-19. Horan says he’s working with the National Funeral

A Minnesota man was arrested for OWI. It was  a little after 1 Tuesday morning when a WI State Trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding on Interstate 94 east of Menomonie. Upon contact with the vehicle, the trooper noticed two children ages six and nine and two adult females. There was an odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle. The driver was identified as Eric Wilson and showed signs of impairment. A subsequent investigation, including standardized field sobriety testing, showed

This is all new territory each day will look a little different, and we will let you know the latest, laid out in simple form. Your Covid-19 Cliff Notes are here. 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 in here to Eau Claire and our own back yard and day to day lives. Trying

There are now 46 people in Wisconsin who are sick with the coronavirus, but doctors say most of them will recover. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said the coronavirus count jumped, as expected. But so did the number of people who have been tested for the virus and cleared. Over 500 people have been confirmed as not sick in the state. DHS says some of the people who are sick with the coronavirus in Wisconsin are in the hospital, but doctors say