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The average cost for regular gas in Wisconsin remains well below the national average.  Triple-A says the price statewide is two-dollars-and-40-cents today.  That’s 22-cents-below the national price of two-62-a-gallon.  Drivers in neighboring Illinois are paying two-67 for regular and in Iowa the average price is two-46.

The Barron County Sheriff’s Department is investigating a case where a tree stand was tore down and vandalized in the Prairie Farm area of Barron County and ahead of the gun hunt season, it appears that this may be tied to several other cases in Dunn Co where hunting stands, trail cameras were damaged, tore down and/or vandalized. While these are all active cases, there may be a possible connection to a group called Animal Liberation Front (ALF). The Animal

An Eau Claire man is accused of sexually assaulting a girl while she slept.  The victim claims David Balistreri touched her last Saturday night, but he claimed he was only looking for a pillow and left.  The victim’s father says Balistreri had been playing poker that night and was drunk.  He’s out on bond and will return to court on November 19th.

An Eau Claire Best Buy is credited for saving a woman from a phone scam.  Police say the woman tried to buy two-thousand-dollars worth of gift cards for someone claiming to be her grandson’s attorney.  He claimed he needed the gift cards to bail her grandson out of jail in Chicago.  Police say employees at the Best Buy and an officer stopped her before she bought the cards.

The Eau Claire School Board is now taking applications for its open seat.  The seat was vacated by Joe Luginbill last month after he took a new job that will force him to work part-time in Washington, DC.  Applicants have until November 26th to send in their applications.  A new member is expected to be picked by December 4th.

There’s a new Prevea medical building in Altoona.  Prevea held a ribbon cutting ceremony Thursday to celebrate the new building in the River Prairie development area.  The building is set to open next Monday.

You may have heard the sirens last evening about 6 as crews responded to a fire in Eau Claire. A report came in of smoke coming from the Chippewa Valley Eye Clinic, and crews arrived at the clinic on Damon Street and as of now we know the damages ring in at nearly $4.5 Million.

The superintendent in Menomonie schools says the students involved in the latest school threat may not understand how serious those threats are. Superintendent Joe Zydowsky says a threat to the school yesterday has been dealt with, and ‘appropriate legal actions’ are being taken. The superintendent is not saying what the threat included, but he does say some of the students involved may not understand the kind of fear they cause when they make threats against the school.

The city of Eau Claire has just over 30 years to change how it powers the city. Eau Claire’s city manager yesterday signed a pledge to make the city carbon-free by 2050. Right now, about 25-percent of Eau Claire’s energy comes from green sources. Part of the carbon-free pledge also includes switching to electric vehicles for the city.

Chippewa County is getting some federal money to help young people say ‘No.’ The county yesterday announced a 625-thousand-dollar grant from the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The money is earmarked for youth substance abuse prevention. Public Health Director Angela Weideman says the hope is to get young people to see that drinking and drugs are real problems in the Chippewa Valley.