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As we inch out of the winter season and into the warmer months and those sweet days of summer, the Chippewa Valley comes alive again. With calendars filling up with local events, our dishes and cones will be full of local ICE CREAM! Olson’s Ice Cream has purchased mobile ice cream retailer 9 Degrees of Eau Claire. Olson’s Ice Cream will continue the event-based ice cream scooping operations and will serve its ice cream, made in Chippewa Falls, at the

As we hear more and more about coronavirus world wide, we will take a look at what it looks like here in our state. More people are being tested for the coronavirus in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday said there are five new cases out for testing. That makes six pending cases. So far, all but one of the people who’ve been tested for the virus have come back as not sick. Doctors say Wisconsin’s only confirmed coronavirus patient

Police say the suspect who made a threat against Durand schools doesn’t have a tie to the community. There is one person in custody after what they call a ‘credible threat’ against Durand-Arkansaw School District yesterday. Schools were placed on lockdown yesterday afternoon after the threat, students were not allowed to leave. Police arrested the suspect about 5 p.m. No one is saying just what the threat entailed or why police believe it was a credible threat.

Two people are looking at charges after Eau Claire Police say they got high and started messing around with a rifle. Nineteen-year-old Atreyu Ortiz was wounded and 20-year-old Quentin Taylor was arrested Tuesday after police say they were trying to take a picture with an AR-15. Eau Claire Police arrested them both for drug possession and weapons charges. Ortiz’s wound is only described as not-life-threatening.

Investigators are looking for a cause after a deadly two-car crash in Trempealeau County. It happened yesterday afternoon near Albion. Police say the driver of each car died. The two cars crashed head-on. The Trempealeau County Sheriff says they are still investigating.

Investigators say there is no evidence that any of the five victims of the shooting at Molson Coors ever did or said anything racist to the accused shooter. Milwaukee Police yesterday pushed-back on claims that racism may have sparked last week’s shooting. A Molson Coors spokesman said they found a noose in Anthony Ferrill’s locker back in 2015. But police are not saying what sparked Ferrill to grab two guns and kill five co-workers one week ago.

There is a good chance that the Eau Claire and Chippewa rivers will flood this spring, and decent chance there will be some major flooding. Eau Claire County emergency managers met yesterday to talk about what they expect in terms of spring flooding. Forecasters say there is a 40 percent chance of major flooding on the Chippewa, and a 30 percent chance of flooding on the Eau Claire River this spring. The National Weather Service says there’s a normal amount

Wisconsin’s local communities say they’re happy to get any money they can for local roads. The League of Wisconsin Municipalities and the Wisconsin Counties Association yesterday both applauded Governor Evers for offering 75 million-dollars in local road grants. The groups say there are over a billion-dollars worth of local road projects across the state, so this is a start. Some Republicans in Madison say the governor shortchanged local roads by cutting the grant program and opening it up to other transportation projects.

Add Wisconsin to the list of states suing the Trump Administration over the border wall with Mexico. Governor Tony Evers yesterday authorized the state to join a lawsuit that seeks to block the president from shifting money from the Pentagon to his border wall. The governor says that will deny Wisconsin and other states money that was supposed to go toward National Guard units and military construction projects. In Wisconsin, the governor says the transfer could mean the loss of nearly 100 million-dollars.