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University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is one step closer to getting a new Science and Health Science building.  Tuesday the state’s Joint Finance Committee approved an over 100-million dollar budget for the first phase of the building in the 2019-to-2021 state budget.  Next the school will need to get the budget passed by the State Assembly, State Senate, and Governor Tony Evers. 

Lake Street bridge in Eau Claire will close next week for construction.  City engineer workers say Lake Street will close next Monday from the bridge to Farwell Street for construction on underground utilities, new curbs, gutters, pavement, and bike lanes.  The project is expected to last until August. 

Jurors will take at least one more day to try and agree on a verdict in a St. Croix County murder case.  The jury in Kayle Fleischauer’s trial didn’t reach a verdict yesterday.  Police say he shot and killed his son after a night of heavy drinking last spring.  The jury yesterday asked to see several pieces of evidence, including the police drawing of how officers think the shooting happened. 

Prosecutors in Dunn County are moving ahead with child abuse charges against a man who police say beat his children with metal bars and broom sticks.  The district attorney filed three felony counts against 40-year-old Bee Yang yesterday.  Police say Yang told them he beat his children because he didn’t think they were afraid of him.  Yang is free on bond. 

City leaders in La Crosse want visitors to pay a bigger piece of the cost to upgrade their local convention center.   La Crosse Mayor Tim Kabat is looking to raise the city’s hotel tax from eight-percent to nine-and-a-half-percent.  He wants to find about two-and-a-half million-dollars a year to pay for 42-million-dollars in upgrades to the La Crosse Center.  The mayor says he doesn’t want property tax payers to have to foot the entire bill.  La Crosse’s city council will vote

Steven Avery is asking his supporters not to forget about him.  Making of Murderer star Steven Avery says he was framed for murder.  Avery recently wrote a letter to his supporters from a Waupun prison where he said he’s been in prison for 34 years and was framed by corrupt prosecutors, bad lawyers, and corrupt cops.  Avery was convicted of killing Teresa Halbach in 2007. 

Lawmakers in Madison hope to know soon how they will replace the state’s troubled youth prisons.  The state’s budget writing panel yesterday agreed to let counties borrow about 25-million-dollars to build the replacements for Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake.  Governor Tony Evers originally pitched 90-million-dollars in borrowing to have the state pay for the new prisons.  Lincoln Hills and Copper Lake are supposed to close by the end of next year, but lawmakers say they’re willing to push that date

Wisconsin lawmakers are not ready to add the World Dairy Expo to the laundry list of pork projects in the state budget.  The state’s budget writing panel last night trimmed 30-million-dollars that Governor Evers wanted to spend on the expo in Madison.  The cash was supposed to be the seed money for a public-private redevelopment project.  

Wisconsin is a top ten place to live for folks in the U.S. The website Wallethub is out with its new rankings of the best places to live.  Wisconsin is ranked sixth.  The state gets high marks for its cost of living, as well as good rankings for the number of things to do and the number of places to eat.  Massachusetts is ranked first, Mississippi is ranked last. 

In the Chippewa Valley dirt track racing began in the 1940s, ice racing in the 1950s, and there’s go kart, snowmobile, and motorcycle racing too. If a machine has a motor, somebody has figured out how to race it. The need for speed remains a popular past time and now it is being highlighted from times past. The Chippewa Valley Museum will explore the who, what, and where of racing with its new exhibit Racing in the Chippewa Valley opening on