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Eau Claire city hall is back open after more than a year of renovations.  City staff returned to the more than 100-year-old building yesterday after previously working at a temporary office during renovations.  Reports the work took about two years and cost about seven-million-dollars.  The city engineer says some offices are now bigger, the roof is touched up, and there are updates to the windows and interior of the building. 

There’s a hunt underway in Eau Claire County for a missing veteran who authorities say made threats against police officers.  Police issued a Green Alert for Daniel Werner last week.  Since then, Eau Claire County’s sheriff says Werner has been accused of threatening to kill any police officer who tires to arrest him. He did not show up for a court appearance Tuesday.  The sheriff says Werner was last seen buying supplies at a local hardware store. 

A dad in Chippewa Falls is heading to jail for a year after leaving his four-year-old in the car last summer so he could steal some liquor.  A judge handed down Michael Raskie Jr’s sentence yesterday.  Chippewa Falls police say Raski left his child in the car last June while he went inside a local grocery store to steal some vodka.  Officers found the child in the hot car, and they say he was just starting to feel the effects

The state of Wisconsin is asking more deer hunters to hand over parts of their deer for chronic wasting disease testing.  The state is ordering other hunters to do the same.  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is ordering mandatory CWD testing for parts of Dunn, Eau Claire, and Pepin counties.  The three counties join about 25 others where the state is looking to contain chronic wasting in either captive or wild deer. 

It’s not clear how many of the 13 drunk driving laws headed before a state Senate panel in Madison may become law.  Lawmakers will hear the proposals today.  Among them is another attempt to make a first time OWI a crime.  Right now, Wisconsin treats a first OWI as little more than a traffic ticket.  The latest proposal would make a first OWI a misdemeanor.  But state Senator Van Wanggaar, who leads the panel, has long said he opposes making a first

Democratic lawmakers in Madison are turning their focus to farms in the state.  Lawmakers yesterday unveiled three proposals that all look to help Wisconsin’s farmers and dairymen.  One plan would create two new jobs at the UW Extension office, the other plans would pay off college debt for farmers and encourage farms in Wisconsin to plant or produce a more diverse set of crops and products.  State Rep. Rep. Dave Considine says the hope is to offer enough help to get Republican lawmakers

Wisconsin will be receiving over five-million-dollars in federal funds to help reduce opioid overdoses in the state.  Senator Tammy Baldwin announced the federal funding today which will be used to enhance prevention efforts.  The Department of Health Sciences says the effort will focus on opioid surveillance as well.  It’s a three-year cooperative agreement with the CDC to highlight the need for a comprehensive public health approach to the crisis. 

Two puppies are being treated for pneumonia and exposure to blue-green algae after being tossed in a retention pond. The Fond du Lac Humane Society says two people have been arrested for throwing the eight-month-old dogs into the toxic pond yesterday.  Blue-green algae in waterways around the country has killed several dogs.  There’s been no information released by police regarding the two suspects. 

There was concern earlier today about man on the lose. We have been undated and now know that the armed and dangerous subject has been arrested and is no longer a threat to the area. 33 year old Randolph L. Vestal 33 from Eau Claire Wi. was taken into custody at approximately 2:24 p.m. today. Sheriff’s Deputies made contact with Vestal when he exited a wooded area and ultimately were able to take him into custody. T he Clark County

No one is hurt after a rollover crash in Vernon County.  The county sheriff’s office says Cody Blank missed a turn on Chipmunk Ridge Road in Bergen early Sunday morning and rolled his car several times.  Neither Blank or his passenger Chrissa Roberts were hurt.  Blank was arrested on an unrelated warrant after the crash.