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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

April is Child Abuse Awareness and Prevention Month.  The State Department of Children and Families says data from 2018 shows there were nearly 45-thousand reports of child maltreatment which is defined as neglect plus abuse.  Maltreatment was confirmed in 55-hundred of those cases with many victims ranging in age from newborn to three-years-old.

The Democrats are moving their national convention in Milwaukee to the week before the Republicans meet in Charlotte.  The D-N-C had originally scheduled it for July so it wouldn’t compete for attention with the Olympics.  The party’s CEO Joe Solmones thought this was the best course of action because of the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.  The convention is now scheduled for the week of August 17th. 

Social Security recipients across the Badger State are relieved by the news that they will be receiving a stimulus check.  There had been some confusion regarding the COVID-19 stimulus payments and whether recipients had to file a tax return in order to receive the benefit.  But the Treasury Department said yesterday those who earn under 75-thousand-dollars a year will have the stimulus payment either deposited in the bank or sent by mail.

More Americans than ever before are filing unemployment claims as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sweep the nation.  The Labor Department reports this morning that more than six-point-six-million workers filed first-time claims for benefits last week.  That’s more than double the three-point-three million claims filed the week before and it’s the highest total in the history of the seasonally-adjusted figures.  Here in our state we continue to be hit as well. The impact of the coronavirus is hard to hide