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For the first time in nearly a decade, hunters in every Wisconsin county will be able to bag a doe.  The Department of Natural Resources yesterday said there will be no buck-only counties in the state this year.  Regulators say the decision is the surest sign yet that the deer population in Wisconsin is rebounding. 

Downtown Eau Claire will look much different by the end of the day.  Organizers are installing the sculptures for this year’s Eau Claire Sculpture Tour.  There will be 55 sculptures on the tour this year.  Crews started installing them this morning.  

The governor is criticizing Republicans for their opposition to Medicaid expansion.  Tony Evers tweeted today that the Republicans voted to ignore the will of the people by removing Medicaid expansion from The People’s Budget.  The governor says there needs to be push-back.  He urged Wisconsinites to tell their legislators to put Medicaid expansion back in the budget. 

On Monday evening just after 6:30 reports came in of a 4-wheeler crash in the Town of Clinton on the trail east of Almena. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department responded to the scene along with the Cumberland Ambulance, Almena Fire Department and the Life Link Helicopter. Initial investigation shows that Nathan Sanchez, 22 of Long Beach CA, was operating a 4-wheeler and failed to negotiate a curve and struck a tree. Sanchez was flown from the scene with serious leg

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is introducing a bill that would create annual federal funds to prevent chronic wasting disease in deer.  Reports say the money would fund research to learn how to detect the disease, suppress it, and determine if there’s genetic resistance.  Baldwin says the bill is important because CWD threatens hunting tradition in Wisconsin and the health of deer herds.

The City of Eau Claire and a contractor could be fined tens-of-thousands of dollars for asbestos violations.  The Department of Natural Resources claims Black Thermal Systems Incorporated mishandled asbestos removal during the Eau Claire city hall renovation that started last November.  An enforcement conference with everyone involved is scheduled for next Monday.  The city and the company are looking at a possible 75-thousand-dollar fine.

A new report suggests that adding more people to Wisconsin’s government-run healthcare rolls could lower health insurance costs.  The consulting group says as many as 30 thousand people who currently buy their health insurance would shift to the government’s system, and that could lower costs.  Republican lawmakers say the Medicaid expansion plan would ultimately cost everyone in Wisconsin more.  Governor Evers is trying to figure out a way to make the expansion a reality. 

Wisconsin is likely headed for a showdown over abortion.  Republican lawmakers started moving four plans that deal with abortions yesterday, but Governor Tony Evers is already promising a veto.  The plans would stop paying Planned Parenthood as a Medicaid provider, ban selective abortions for gender or birth defects, clarify the process about chemical abortions, and the final plan would create a born alive procedure.  Assembly Majority Leader Jim Steineke says there’s no harm in passing the plans and seeing what the

Two major western Wisconsin health providers are looking to merge together.  Marshfield Clinic centered in Marshfield says it and Gundersen Health are looking to merge into one health system with over a dozen hospitals and 100 clinics.  Marshfield has clinics and a hospital in Eau Claire and Gundersen has hospitals in Whitehall and Independence.  The Gundersen CEO says the merger could be complete by the end of the year. 

UPDATE: Authorities say a missing Menomonie man is safe and sound.  Police canceled yesterday’s Silver Alert for 60-year-old David Twite.  He walked away from his treatment center in Menomonie on Monday.  Officers are not saying where he was found.  Police in Menomonie are on the lookout for a missing elderly man.  A Silver Alert was issued yesterday afternoon for 60-year-old David Twite who was last seen at a treatment center in Menomonie yesterday morning.  Twite has dementia or some other