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 It will be just slots, and face masks will be required, when the Oneida casino reopens next week. Casino managers last week said they will reopen on May 26th, with limited games and other coronavirus safety precautions. About half of the casino’s workers will be coming back to work next week. They will all be screened before hitting the floor with guests.

The Wisconsin National Guard is keeping open-testing open for another week. Guard commanders on Friday said there will be at least a few more days of testing in Milwaukee and other sites across the state to start the week. More than 11-thousand people have been tested in Milwaukee alone. The Guard says the mission is to try and get a fuller picture of the coronavirus by testing as many people as they can.

There are two official goals in Wisconsin’s latest coronavirus battle plan. DHS on Friday filed the paperwork with the legislature to create rules for a new coronavirus emergency order. The goals are to ‘box in’ the virus and reopen the state’s economy ‘without undue risk.’ The legislature will have to approve the new rules before DHS can issue a new emergency order. It’s not looking like that will happen as a number of Republicans say they don’t like the scope that

A chase ends with the arrest of a Chippewa Falls woman. It started just before 2 on Friday afternoon, May 15th, when the Chippewa Officers were chasing a white car at a high rate of speed northbound on Hwy 53. Barron County Deputies located this vehicle travelling and attempted tostop it. The lone driver refused to stop and a chase ensued. Stop sticks were deployed near the Chetek Exit but the driver avoiding them. The case continued into Washburn Co

Wisconsin is seeing more than five thousand people per-day test negative for the coronavirus. Yesterday’s coronavirus count from the state’s Department of Health Services shows that negative tests have topped five thousand for four straight days. So far, nearly 140 thousand people have tested negative for the virus, while about 12 thousand people have tested positive. Wisconsin’s governor says the people of the state are going to have to manage the coronavirus on their own, because he says state government likely

Drivers in Wisconsin no longer need to wait at the DMV to get a new license. The state’s Department of Transportation says people can renew their drivers’ license online. The hope is to clear a backlog of nearly 80 thousand people who’ve had their driver’s license expire since the beginning of the coronavirus outbreak.  DMV Administrator Kristina Boardman says anyone between 18 and 64 who has not seen a change in their driver’s status can go online and renew their license. The

Fishing is one of the few things that people can do during the coronavirus outbreak, and it looks like a lot of people in Wisconsin are doing it. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says it’s seen about 100 thousand more people fishing this spring than last. DNR credits the jump to the coronavirus.

There will soon be a new way to catch a movie in the Chippewa Valley. The folks at Micon Cinemas are working with businesses in Eau Claire, Menomonie, and at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds in Chippewa Falls to open pop-up drive-in theaters. Shows start this weekend. Tickets are on sale online, and start at two dollars a piece

A man is dead after a vehicle rolled over on him at a race track in New Richmond.  The incident happened Friday night at the Cedar Lake Speedway.  Edward Nicholson was working as part of a safety crew attending to two school buses that crashed into each other during a bus race when one of the vehicles leaned over and fell on him.  He died at the scene.  The incident is under investigation.

Welcome to your weekend! As we are looking at some decent weather here in our corner of the world today, some places are looking to blast out of this world. There are two rocket launches planned for this weekend at Cape Canaveral.  This morning at 8:00-a.m. local time an Atlas carrying the secret X-37 mini shuttle will launch, weather permitting.  Then early on Sunday a SpaceX launch carrying Starlink mini satellites is scheduled.  As of now, the weather outlook is