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A Burlington man is facing his fifth OWI charge.  A criminal complaint says Michael Mitchell was going 63 miles-per-hour in a 45 mile-per-hour zone in Tilden last month when he was pulled over.  Mitchell failed a field sobriety test, was arrested, and tested with a blood-alcohol level well above the legal limit.  He was just recently charged in Chippewa County Court and is due back in court on June 18th. 

West central Wisconsin is at a high risk for wildfires.  Eau Claire County Emergency Management says since trees are blooming and bonfire season is here, the risk for wildfires will be highest in the next few weeks.  Emergency Management says the risk will be lower this week with rain in the forecast, but the risk changes everyday.

The City of Eau Claire is asking for public input on their parking experience around town.  The city says it’s trying to decide whether or not to make changes to areas where there’s permit parking, timed parking, and no parking zones.  The city plans to hold a town hall discussion about the parking situation after the survey is over.

Police in Eau Claire are not saying much about their investigation into a two-year-old girl’s death.  The little girl died on Saturday.  Investigators say her family brought her to the hospital, she was pronounced dead a little while later.  Police say they’ve spoken with the girl’s family and are waiting for an autopsy, but they are not saying much else about the case.

Eau Claire County’s embezzlement case could spark a new law.  Eau Claire state Rep.  Warren Petryk [[ peet-rick ]] and Chippewa Falls state Senator  Kathy Bernier yesterday introduced a new law that would allow prosecutors to go after someone’s pension if they are convicted of stealing from taxpayers.  Petryk and Bernier say the case of former Eau Claire County Treasurer Larry Lokken inspired the plan.  Lokken and his deputy treasurer are in jail and facing a 681-thousand-dollar tab for stealing

The campus at UW La Crosse is looking to grow.  School leaders last night asked city leaders in La Crosse to allow them to take over a few more city streets.  All of the streets are near campus and will be turned into walking paths.  La Crosse’s city council is okay with the plan, but are asking UW leaders to make sure the streets are kept-up enough to accommodate fire trucks if there’s ever an emergency. While we are chatting

The ice is gone and the swimmers aren’t too far away.  The  Eau Claire County Parks and Forest Department said it will start to raise the water levels at Lake Altoona over the next few days.  Parks managers say they will close the dam and allow the lake to fill-up to its summer depths. 

About four months into the job, Governor Tony Evers is set to sign his first law.  The governor is expected to sign a law today that removes the words mental retardation from state statute.  Lawmakers unanimously agreed to the change earlier this spring.  It’s one of just three plans that lawmakers have sent to the governor for his signature.

The Milwaukee Brewers are a home run hitting team, with or without Christian Yelich.  The reigning NL MVP sat-out last night’s game against the Colorado Rockies.  But the Brewers didn’t need him.  Jesus Aguilar hit two home runs to help the Crew to a 5-2 victory.  Yelich could be back in the lineup any day, the team says he is day-to-day. 

Senator Tammy Baldwin says President Trump has been all been all talk and tweets while Wisconsin is losing dairy farms.  Baldwin said today that the state has lost nearly 14-hundred dairy farms since Trump took office.  She says farmers need a president fighting for them and Trump hasn’t delivered results.  The president was in Green Bay over the weekend for a rally.