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Dodgeville Mayor Todd Novak says around a thousand employees at Lands End in Dodgeville have been furloughed.  The Wisconsin-based company last month announced the closure of 26 retail stores around the country during the coronavirus pandemic.  Early numbers are that 70-percent of Lands End corporate employees were furloughed on March 28th.  Others took a pay cut.

It is Severe Weather Awareness Week in Wisconsin.  Meteorologists and community officials are urging people to brush up on safety tips and escape plans.  It’s important to talk to family members about how to reconnect after certain weather situations like a tornado.  On Thursday Wisconsin will hold a virtual statewide tornado drill at 1:45.  You may see messages on social media and local communities may still sound their sirens. 

A weekend garage fire resulted in a total loss. It was on Saturday, April 11th, just before 11:30 in the night when the Buffalo County Sheriff’s Office took report of a garage fire at W747 Walnut Street in the City of Fountain City. Upon arrival of the emergency units, the residence’s garage was fully engulfed in flames. The homeowners said they were awoken from their sleep by the fire, that they had not been inside of their garage for hours,

A Woodville man was taken into custody after an incident heading into the weekend. It was on Friday night, April 10th a bit before 11 when the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a call to conduct a welfare check on a man in Turtle Lake. When a deputy arrived at the residence, he heard several gun shots coming from the residence. The Barron/Rusk Emergency Response Team was called to the scene as well as officers from the Turtle Lake, Cumberland

The Eau Claire Board of Canvassers are meeting this morning to count thousands of remaining absentee ballots from the Wisconsin Primary Election.  Wisconsin senators Ron Johnson and Tammy Baldwin called on the United States Postal Service Friday to investigate what happened to thousands of absentee ballots that are yet to be counted. Officials with the Wisconsin Elections Commission said they sent out nearly one-point-three million absentee ballots statewide and as of Friday more than 200-thousand have yet to be returned. Officials say they’re encouraging clerks

Governor Evers is awaiting the results of an application to begin the development of a second care facility in Wisconsin to help the state prepare for a potential surge in COVID-19 cases. The Governor submitted the application to the Federal Emergency Management Agency yesterday that would create a backup care facility as to not overwhelm Wisconsin’s healthcare systems in the south-central region of the state. The Army Corp of Engineers is partnering with states to build upon existing, local medical infrastructure in response

The Eau Claire City-County Health Department is now holding public news conferences about the COVID-19 pandemic on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The new schedule is being implemented this week to help inform the community about the county’s response to COVID-19 in the area. The health department says people can use the call center for questions about COVID-19 Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 715-831-7425. Information can also be found HERE.

We are starting another week of what is becoming our “new normal” and as we navigate the latest of the world pandemic, there is a lot (A LOT!) of information to digest, we will break it down from the larger (World) scope and work our way here to the Chippewa Valley and our own back yard and day to day lives. Trying to outline the basics and keep the information accurate, bite size, and easy to follow. First of all, COVID19 is

Wisconsin’s local election clerks can finally start to count their ballots. Today is the day that the court order that held the state’s election results ends. Local clerks can start counting ballots after 4 p.m. this afternoon. Voters went to the polls almost a week ago, but no one knows who won.

Easter 2020 is one for the record books. Eau Claire saw a record seven inches of snow yesterday. Officially, the count is seven-point-seven inches. That’s more than the old record for April 12th which was seven inches set back in 1962. The previous Easter snow record was five-and-a-half inches, set back in 1929.