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The arrival of June means people across Wisconsin can expect hotter temperatures across the state in the months ahead. To help encourage everyone to be prepared, Gov. Tony Evers has declared this Wednesday, June 3 Heat Awareness Day in Wisconsin. In 2019, preliminary figures from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services show five people died in Wisconsin due to heat-related causes. In the last five years, at least 17 people have died in Wisconsin and thousands of residents have fallen

For the first time in its nearly 123-year history, the Northern Wisconsin State Fair will not go on as planned. Essential to this year’s preparations are the directives of county, state, national and international health agencies, and the ever-evolving COVID-19 pandemic we find ourselves in. Due to the limitations placed on large public gatherings in terms of logistics, size, and first and foremost, the health and safety of our staff, volunteers, vendors, fair-goers, exhibitors and their families, a decision was made

An arrest leads to a 5th DWI for a Minnesota man. 57 year old Jeffrey K. Moe, from Proctor, MN has been arrested by the Wisconsin State Patrol Spooner Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 5th offense. It was on Sunday, May 31, a bit before 6 in the evening when, a Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper stopped a vehicle for speeding on Susquehanna Ave. in the City of Superior. The driver, who was identified as Jeffrey K.

Business owners in some Wisconsin cities are cleaning up after riots destroyed their store fronts and looters stole their property. The Madison Police Department said over 70-businesses were damaged over the weekend. Milwaukee police said around 20-businesses were damaged there and looters stole inventory. The city issued a second city-wide curfew last night. Some organizations have started clean-up efforts to help local businesses.

Local high school seniors are graduating this week. Schools are taking different approaches to commencement ceremonies, but Regis High School is holding an in-person individual ceremony for 65-students Wednesday and Thursday. The school says students are being given a ten-minute time slot to come pick up their diploma with family and friends, and the school will live stream the ceremony online. North High School is doing something similar on Thursday, and Memorial High School students will graduate Friday.

Firefighters are using donated homes to practice putting out fires. Over the weekend, local firefighters from Altoona and Eau Claire used a home on Highway-12 to simulate a live fire and practice putting it out.  Altoona Fire Chief Mark Renderman said the hands-on experience helps save lives when a real emergency comes. 

A week from now, city officials are hosting a virtual water safety training. The Eau Claire Parks and Recreation and Forestry departments said water safety experts will use Red Cross guidelines to provide eight lessons on swimming safety including how to help for a struggling swimmer. The Parks and Recreation program supervisor says the skills will teach people how to stay safe around the rivers and lakes.   CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

Wisconsin is hoping that people get out and enjoy the outdoors this weekend. The state’s Department of Natural Resources says this weekend is the annual Free Fun Weekend. That means all state parks will be open, and free. Same goes for ATV trails. Fishermen don’t need a license this weekend. And all boat launches in the state will be open as well. The only thing that will not be open is the state’s campgrounds. Those are closed because of the coronavirus.

The weekend protests in Eau Claire never turned violent like in other places here in our state. A few hundred people marched through downtown Eau Claire yesterday. It was one of many protests that have followed George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis last week. Organizer Jaylin Carlson says the goal of the entire march was to raise awareness and do it in a peaceful and safe way. But that wasn’t the story everywhere. Milwaukee Police say another day of protests turned

Wisconsin’s coronavirus numbers are down. The state’s Department of Health Services yesterday reported 173 positive tests yesterday, and just over seven thousand negative tests. That brings the state’s positive-test-rate to just two-point-three percent. That is the lowest it’s ever been. On the heels of weekend protests, Eau Claire’s public health boss says protests are allowed under the county’s coronavirus emergency order. Health director Lieske Giese yesterday said the hundreds of people who marched through downtown Eau Claire did not technically