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In its 20th year, the Chippewa Valley Book Festival is opening up another chapter this fall. This year’s festival will be held October 21–October 27, 2019. The majority of events are open to the public and are FREE. This year’s festival will feature eighteen authors and more than twenty events. Here are some of the people behind the pen that you can expect to see: Rebecca Makkai – 2019 Pulitzer Prize Finalist, Andrew Carnegie Medal in Fiction, Los Angeles Times Book

A Richland Center man is in custody in connection with a theft from a salvage yard in Viroqua, southeast of La Crosse.  The theft was reported earlier this month and an investigation led to the arrest of Jeremy Stankovich over the weekend.  Stankovich will appear in court on August 7th. 

The County Highway S bridge over Lake Wissota in Chippewa County is closed today.  The bridge is closed for construction and could stay closed for up to three weeks.  Boats can still pass by the bridge but cars are being detoured. 

Thousands of people are still without power because of severe storms over the weekend.  According to Barron Electric, most outages in the area are north of Eau Claire starting near the Village of New Auburn and going north to Cumberland.  At one point last Friday up to ten-thousand people were without power in Barron County. 

Towns and cities across Wisconsin are getting a bit more help to clean-up after the latest round of severe weather.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday declared a state of emergency after a line of thunderstorms cut across the state on Saturday.  Thousands of people were left without power, and the storms knocked down trees and knocked over a few barns.  The state of emergency allows the Wisconsin National Guard to assist local communities, it’s also the first step toward requesting federal money to help pay

The sheriff in St. Croix County says a missing stop sign may be to blame for a deadly crash last Friday.  Three people died when a motorcycle smashed into a car at the intersection of State Highway 64 and County Highway T in Stanton Township.  Cars on Highway T are supposed to stop, but Sheriff Scott Knudson says the stop sign may have been knocked down.  

A watchdog in Madison says it doesn’t make sense to spend road money on Milwaukee’s streetcar.  Mike Nichols with the Badger Institute said last week that the plan from Governor Tony Evers’ administration to use road money to expand the streetcar goes against the idea of earmarking money for roads.  Nichols says not only would the governor take money away from road construction, but he says there’s no evidence The Hop is bringing tourists to Milwaukee. 

You can add 22 more names to the list of priests in Wisconsin who are accused of abusing children.  The St. Norbert Abbey late last week named 22 priests who abbey leaders say were ‘credibly accused.’  Only five of the 22 are still living, and none of them are preaching any longer.  Abbot Dane Radecki says they released the names in the ‘spirit of accountability.’ 

A Sunday afternoon river rescue serves as a reminder to be careful when heading out. The Eau Claire Fire Department responded for a person in distress operating a Kayak in the Eau Claire River. One person was rescued near the South bank of the river between the S-Bridge and Boyd Park by a crew of Eau Claire Firefighters and Police Officers. The Kayak was recovered and an ambulance was also on scene, however, medical treatment was not required. Officials want

A fire in Rice Lake had crews out twice to the same location over the weekend. It was on Friday evening when a report came in of a fire at 1 Jachim Place in the City of Rice Lake. At about 7:40 crews arrived to heavy fire but extinguished the blaze. Then, on Saturday morning just before 6:30 a call came in from the same location after the fire rekindled. Crews arrived to once again extinguish the blaze, and there