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The Marshfield Medical Center-Eau Claire will start running COVID-19 tests, which will shorten the time patients can expect to receive their results.  The hospital will be able to turn around test results within hours, compared with several days it can take at state and commercial labs.  Hospital officials say they hope to start running tests as early as next week.  They plan to be able to run up to 150 specimens each day.

Several area nonprofits have organized to help coordinate efforts in the community toward the COVID-19 outbreak.  The coalition is called Together Chippewa Valley.  It’s also designed to raise funds and support members of the coalition.  CLICK HERE FOR MORE TOGETHER

The number of coronavirus-related deaths is now more than 53-thousand around the world, with more than one million confirmed infections.  Currently, the United States reported the highest daily death toll of any country so far. According to the data from Johns Hopkins University, more than 210-thousand people have recovered from the disease, including nine-thousand in the US. What about the money? Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says financial relief for the coronavirus fallout will arrive this month AND payments will go

Expect to see a lot of golfers hit the courses in Dunn County. The county’s public health director, KT Gallagher, yesterday sent a letter to local golf courses telling them they can stay open despite Governor Evers Safer at Home order. The Dunn County exemption keeps clubhouses closed, and requires golfers to call ahead for a tee time. Gallagher says opening the golf courses is  a way to allow people to interact with their community green spaces. Law enforcement in

The coronavirus hasn’t canceled duck season in Wisconsin. At least not yet. The state’s Department of Natural Resources yesterday approved the framework for duck, goose, and other migratory bird hunting seasons. Northern duck season opens September 26th.  Wisconsin’s other two zones will see hunting start on October 3rd. Goose season starts September 16th for most of the state. DNR says there will be a special goose season in the southern part of the state between Christmas and New Year’s.

Usually folks in the northwoods love it when families from southeast Wisconsin make the trip up. But these are not usual times. Leaders in a number of northwoods communities are once again pleading with people to stay away during the coronavirus outbreak. Waushara County Public Health Officer Patti Wohlfeil says they only have one hospital in the county, and it only has 23 beds. She says if people bring the coronavirus up north, it could easily overwhelm their ability to care for

An arrest leads to a large drug bust. It was on Wednesday, April 1st just before 7:30 night when Marshfield Police Department attempted a drug interdiction traffic stop on a vehicle at 8th and E Veterans Parkway on a suspect from a previous meth delivery earlier this year. Upon approach by officers, the vehicle sped off westbound, performing a U-turn at Palmetto and E Veterans and continued eastbound on E VeteransPkwy at a high rate of speed in an attempt

City Clerk Carrie Riepl today announced changes in three of the City ofEau Claire’s polling places for the April 7 election due to the Coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. The following polling places have changed: ◼ Pentecostal, 9 Ninth Ave., Eau Claire, WI, has been moved to:MENARDS TENNIS CENTER, 1260 Menomonie St., Eau Claire (Wards 4, 5 & 42)◼ Our Redeemer Church, 601 Fall St., Eau Claire, WI has been moved to:EAU CLAIRE LABOR TEMPLE, 2233 Birch St., Eau Claire (Wards 1,

The Department of Health Services says seven more people died overnight from the Coronavirus.  The number of deaths in Wisconsin now stands at 31.  Confirmed cases increased by 180 and now stand at 17-hundred-and-30 with 460 people hospitalized.  The most cases are reported in Milwaukee County with 869 followed by Dane County with 228 and Waukesha County with 120 cases. 

Dolly Parton has a new project.  The country music legend is launching a new video series with the help of her non-profit, Imagination Library.  She was excited to talk about the new adventure in an interview this morning on NBC’s Today show.  CLICK HERE TO CRACK OPEN MORE OF THE STORY Parton will be reading to kids across America each week for ten weeks in a video series called “Goodnight With Dolly.”  The readings will be streamed live on YouTube