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Nearly 60-percent of schools in Wisconsin want permission to end the school year early. The State’s Department of Public Instruction on Friday said that 248 of the state’s 421 school districts have asked for a waiver for classroom hours. The state is allowing schools to cut the year short because of the coronavirus. Wisconsin high schools are required by law to have more than 11-hundred hours of teaching time. That is proving tough for some school districts.

Firefighters in Eau Claire are looking for the cause of a fire that left a local family homeless. The fire heavily damaged the home in the 36 hundred block of Sharon Drive yesterday evening. The fire was mostly kept to just one room, but smoke and water damaged the rest of the house. No one was hurt in the fire.

The folks at Feed My People say the Wisconsin Farmers Union gave them 31 thousand pounds of pork ribs. Feed My People Executive Director Emily Moore says that’s enough to feed five thousand families. The ribs are from Redwood Farms, and would usually go to high-end restaurants in Chicago and New York, but are coming to Eau Claire because of the coronavirus’ limits on restaurants.

Wisconsin’s citizen soldiers will do their part in the special election in the northwoods. Guard commanders last week said about 250 citizen soldiers will help out with tomorrow’s special election in the state’s 7th Congressional District. Voters in the northwoods will pick a replacement for Sean Duffy tomorrow. Just like last month’s election, the guard will help people check-in at the polls, they will help sanitize, and they will help with logistics. Local election managers will count the ballots once

A man who admitted to going in the ditch while texting behind the wheel also picked up a 6th OWI. It was just before 5 on Saturday afternoon when a WI State Patrol Trooper responded to a report of a vehicle which had run into the ditch on CTH O at Fire Lane Road. When the Trooper arrived on scene he found the operator, 57 year old Christopher Arthur Thannum, uninjured and standing outside of his vehicle. The vehicle had

The Eau Claire Fire Department responded to an early morning fire on Garden St. It was a bit before 3 on Sunday morning when crews arrived to find fire throughout the attached garage and a portion of the house. The fire was under control within the hour, however, fire crews and investigators currently remained on scene after that and the fire is still under investigation.

It’s Mother’s Day. A day to celebrate those good ol’ moms in our lives. How about a quick little history lesson about WHY we take a day to make sure that happens? The history of celebrating grandmothers and mothers can be traced back to the ancient Greeks who honored the mother goddesses Rhea and Cybele.  In 1600s England, the celebration fell on the fourth Sunday during Lent and represented faithful followers returning to “mother church” for a special service.  Over time, Mothering Sunday

Governor Tony Evers is sharing the state’s recommended best practices for the reopening from the coronavirus shutdown. The Governor released the best practices document Friday which was compiled by the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation.  They have stipulations and recommendations that apply to all sorts of businesses from hair salons and gyms to white collar offices and manufacturing sites.  The state reopens May 26.  The complete list of reopen guidelines can be found online HERE. CLICK FOR MORE INFORMATION

A decontamination system for N-95 surgical masks is now up and running in Wisconsin.  Governor Tony Evers’ office announced yesterday that the Battelle Memorial Institute Critical Care Decontamination System cleans the N-95 masks such that they can then be reused up to 20 times before needing to be decontaminated again.  The statement says the Battelle systems will be given out at no cost to healthcare organizations, hospitals, nursing homes, first responder agencies, doctor and dentist offices and many other front

Hello, Saturday! On this Mothers Day weekend, it seems Mother Nature is feeling a little temperamental. A freeze warning is in effect until 8:00-a.m. this morning for most of the state.  If you have spring flowers or other vegetation just getting started, you might want to cover it or bring plants indoors if possible. The overnight temperature is expected to drop into the mid-20s.  By this afternoon the high should be back into the mid 50s. Oh, Wisconsin weather….Always an