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The outdoors section of Gander RV in Eau Claire is closing.  Gander opened in the summer of 2018 as Gander Mountain but soon switched to Gander RV and Outdoors.  Now the outdoors part of the store is being liquidated and it’ll only be selling RV’s in the future.

Wisconsin women’s volleyball is one win away from its first national championship in program history.  The Badgers knocked off number one ranked Baylor in four sets in the semi finals Thursday night.  Wisconsin will take on defending national champions Stanford in the NCAA national title game Saturday night.

Leaders at the Chippewa Valley Technical College aren’t getting a lot of feedback about their plan to raise taxes. Just two people showed-up at a public meeting last night to hear a sales pitch for the idea. CVTC leaders are considering asking taxpayers to raise taxes by 49 million-dollars, that vote could come in the spring. The CVTC board will make a final decision on the tax increase question next month.

Nearly 60 older or disabled people in Chippewa County are going to have to find a new nurse to help them. Chippewa County administrator Randy Scholz yesterday said the county is moving to end its home healthcare program. He says the county is not getting enough back from the state and federal government to cover the cost of the program. In addition to the 60 people who will lose services, Scholz says seven people will lose their jobs.

Fire investigators in Eau Claire say they do not know what started the fire at the Chippewa Valley Eye Clinic. Firefighters finished their investigation yesterday. They are ruling the fire an accident, even though they do not have a specific cause. That fire, back in early November, left a gaping hole in the building’s roof but didn’t hurt anyone.

Two of western Wisconsin’s largest healthcare providers will not be merging. Gundersen Health System and the Marshfield Clinic Health System yesterday said they are no longer in talks to consolidate. Leaders at both Gunderson and Marshfield say a merger wasn’t the right fit for either group. The two had been in talks for months.

There is a new wrinkle on the debate over medical marijuana in Wisconsin. Assembly Speaker Robin Vos yesterday said he thinks it’s just a matter of time before the state legalizes marijuana as medicine. Vos has said in the past that he could support a limited medical marijuana program. The Republican leader of the state Senate, Scott Fitzgerald, however continues to fight the idea. Vos said he has no timeline in mind for when Wisconsin could get a medical marijuana program.

The jobless picture in Wisconsin looks pretty much the same as it did two months ago. The state says the unemployment rate held steady last month at three-point-three percent. The report also says employers have created just under ten thousand jobs in the year since Tony Evers was elected governor.

Prosecutors in Green Lake County are releasing a bit more information into the case against six men accused of sex trafficking a 17-year-old girl. The D.A. yesterday said the six, who are all in this country illegally, threatened and forced the teen to have sex with them. Investigators say all six had sex with her at one point. The teen escaped the men and found a deputy last month. All six men are being held in jail and are awaiting

The United States Curling Association selected the Eau Claire Curling Club as the host of the 2020 Junior Nationals Championships, to be held January 12 through January 18, 2020 at the Eau Claire Curling Club in the Eau Claire County Expo Center building on Lorch Avenue. Eight teams of four men and eight teams of four women will be arriving in Eau Claire on Sunday January 12 to begin the week-long competition, which kicks off with Opening Ceremonies Sunday evening.