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There is no price tag for the flooding in La Crosse yet, but city leaders expect it to be big.  La Crosse Utilities Manager Bernard Lenz says his department spent 100-thousand-dollars just dealing with their issues this spring.  That doesn’t take into account any of the other costs.  The Mississippi River stayed at flood stage for 41 straight days this spring, and is still high in many places. 

City leaders in  La Crosse aren’t ready to okay new food truck rules just yet.  City Council member Christine Kahlow last night said she still needs to have a few discussions before she’s ready to ask for a vote on her plan to restrict where food trucks can operate. Her proposal would keep trucks at least 150 feet away from brick-and-mortar restaurants.  

Flags across the state of Wisconsin will fly a little lower for the next few days.  Governor Tony Evers yesterday ordered flags at state buildings lowered to honor fallen police officers.  Officers and lawmakers will remember fallen officers with a ceremony in Madison today.  The governor says flags should stay at half staff through next Wednesday. 

A Rusk County man accused of murder in Chippewa County is having his case dismissed from its current judge.  Preston Kraft is accused of shooting and killing Robert Petit last May but the only witness was killed as well.  Yesterday the judge on the case was removed after a request by Kraft’s attorneys and a new judge has been assigned.  Kraft was found competent to stand trial in March and he’s charged with first-degree intentional homicide. 

An Eau Claire man is going to jail after being convicted of breaking bones in his girlfriend’s face.  Reports say Stephen Jones pleaded guilty to multiple charges yesterday and was sentenced to a year in jail followed by six years probation.  A criminal complaint claims Jones attacked his girlfriend last year but she hasn’t been able to recall what caused the attack. 

Eau Claire city officials are expecting the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan to be used twice as much this year as it was last year.  The city says it used the drug to treat over 55 overdoses last year and it’s already been used to treat about 40 this year.  The drug can be administered through the nose, injected, or through an IV. 

An Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce video intended to get people to move to the city is the winner of a regional media award.  The Think Eau Claire video and website won Digital Campaign of the Year from the Mid America Chamber earlier this week.  Reports say the video has been viewed more than 87-thousand times since it launched last October. 

A company in Chippewa Falls is building the world’s most powerful computer.  If you watched the news on WQOW, then you likely saw the reports that supercomputer company Cray is building the computer for a Tennessee based company and it’ll cost over 600-million dollars and weigh more than one-million pounds.  The company’s CEO says the computer will be faster than the top 160 supercomputers in the world combined.  It’s expected to be finished by 2021. 

Recent heavy rain in the upper Chippewa River watershed is causing increased runoff through the system and will result in rising river levels on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and elevating it to an Action Stage. At 5 a.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read 764 feet. This is nine feet below the downtown flood stage of 773 feet. The current crest projection is 768 feet for Sunday, May 12, 2019. At this level, water will have

Western Wisconsin’s congressman wants to expand federal funding to allow folks in some rural communities to qualify for hospice care.  Congressman Ron Kind says right now people who use rural health clinics or federally qualified health centers cannot enroll in hospice because the clinics and centers cannot bill Medicare.  Kind says that sometimes leaves people in rural Wisconsin without care at the end of their lives.