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A new study claims switching to electric vehicles could save Eau Claire a lot of money.  Xcel Energy recently studied communities in three states and found electric vehicles save about 55 cents per gallon on gas.  Eau Claire leaders say the city could save over 100-thousand dollars over ten years by switching five city vehicles to electric.

Wisconsin has the second-most organic farms of any state in the country.  That’s according to a recent study by the U.S. Census of Agriculture.  It says there are about 12-hundred organic farms in the Badger State, less than half as many as number one California.  The study says organic farms make up about two percent of all farms in the state.

The next time an elected official steals from taxpayers in Wisconsin they could pay with their pension. Governor Tony Evers yesterday signed a new state law that will allow a judge to seize the pension of any public official convicted of a felony theft or misconduct. The law is inspired by the case of former Eau Claire County treasurer Larry Lokken. He and his assistant stole more than one-million-dollars from taxpayers. They have been ordered to repay the county over 700-thousand-dollars, but

Prosecutors in Dunn County say the suspect in last week’s beating death outside of Colfax told police that he exploded after years of abuse. The D.A. yesterday said that 51-year-old Gary Styer admitted to beating his father to death with a two-by-four last week. Styer told investigators that his father abused him going back to his childhood, and he finally exploded. Styer is being held in the Dunn County Jail on 250-thousand-dollars cash bond.

A man convicted of sexual assault of a child back in 2011 is looking at new sex crime charges. Prosecutors in Polk County yesterday charged David Granger Jr. with rape. A woman says she woke-up on Saturday with Granger on top of her, and he refused to stop. Granger is being held on sexual assault and bail jumping charges in the Polk County Jail.

Eau Claire County will likely be one of the counties to slap a new registration fee on horse drawn buggies if state lawmakers agree. The county board last night voted nearly unanimously to send a letter to the State Assembly urging lawmakers to approve a county-based horse and buggy registration law. The idea is to help local law enforcement track down horse and buggy owners if there is an accident or reckless driving.

A western Wisconsin lawmaker is one of the first to introduce a new plan to get tougher on vaping. La Crosse State Senator Jennifer Shilling yesterday introduced a proposed law to make sure young people under 21 don’t buy or use vapes. Schilling’s plan would also ask for a new state ad blitz to talk to young people about the dangers of vaping. That’s the same idea that Governor Tony Evers presented last weekend.

Lawmakers in Madison want to hear some solutions, not just political promises and snarky attacks from the governor. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he hopes Governor Tony Evers’ State of the State speech tonight isn’t too political. Vos said there are real issues that the state needs to solve. He doesn’t think the governor will do anyone any good by trying to pick political fights or propose new initiatives that have no chance of becoming law.

It is going to be American Family Field. American Family Insurance yesterday announced the new name for what will soon be the ballpark formerly known as Miller Park. American Family Insurance bought the naming rights to the stadium last year, and the name change officially takes effect on January 1st of next year.

The conservative group that is driving a lawsuit to have the Wisconsin Election Commission remove over 200-thousand voters from the state’s voter rolls is once again asking the state Supreme Court to act. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty yesterday asked the high court to cancel a Madison-based appeals court order that put that case on hold. WILL’s Rick Essenberg says the appeals court didn’t offer a reason for why it ruled the Election Commission doesn’t have to act. The Election Commission has