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City of Eau Claire Streets crews continue clean-up plow and snow haul operations, to aid in their work a new Snow Event has been declared and will go into effect at 12-midnight, 3/8/19 and will end at 5 p.m. on 3/10/19.    The current Snow Event continues to be in effect. Residents can expect that for at least the next two weeks Alternate Side Parking rules will continue to be implemented.  The current alternate side parking ordinance requires a new Snow Event

Crave Brothers Farmstead Cheese has continued its tradition of excellence, winning five awards at the 2019 U.S. Championship Cheese Contest. Crave Brothers Cheese received two Gold Awards (Best of Class/First Place) for Crave Brothers Fresh Mozzarella Medallions and Crave Brothers Part-Skim One-Pound Mozzarella Balls. In addition, Crave Brothers Cheese won three Silver (Second Place) Awards for Crave Brothers Fresh Mozzarella Ciliegine, Crave Brothers Oaxaca, and Crave Brothers White Cheddar Cheese Curds.  The U.S. Championship Cheese Contest was held in Green Bay, Wisconsin, March 5, 6 and

Governor Tony Evers visited the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Thursday morning to announce that he has put the first portion of funding to a new Science & Health Sciences building on the UW-Eau Claire campus in his biennial budget. The current Science building on campus, Phillips Hall, was built in 1963 and accounts for 34 percent of annual work orders for facilities on campus.

A Holman man is going to prison for six years for sexually assaulting an eight-year-old girl.  Reports show 25-year-old Richard Hulburt pleaded no contest in December to second-degree sexual assault after originally being charged with two counts of first-degree child sexual assault in Chippewa County.  At his sentencing yesterday, the county district attorney said Hulburt has no remorse for his crime.

Less kids are getting their early childhood vaccination in western Wisconsin than in any other part of the state.  According to the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, 73-percent of Wisconsin kids under the age of two were vaccinated in 2017, but only 69-percent of kids in western Wisconsin got vaccinated.  That’s the lowest mark in any region of the state.  In Eau Claire, 74-percent of kids were fully vaccinated in 2017.  In La Crosse, 78-percent were vaccinated.

The City of Altoona is warning residents about the potential of water pipes freezing.  The city says pipes between the main line and houses run the risk of freezing because of the depth of frost on the ground.  Anyone with symptoms of frozen pipes is asked to call the Public Works Department.

A Menomonie woman is going home with thousands of dollars in prizes after winning big on the Price is Right.  Maybe you were paging through the paper and saw this in The Leader-Telegram. Bonnie Konsela attended a taping of the show on January 8th with her husband, the second time she’s seen the show in person.  This time Konsela was selected as a contestant and she won one-thousand dollars in cash, a 65-inch TV, a grill, and a set of

The woman tapped by Governor Tony Evers to lead Wisconsin’s Department of Health Services is ignoring the half-billion dollar cost of expanding Medicaid in the state.  DHS Secretary designee Andrea Palm released a statement yesterday that highlights what she says will be the advantages of adding 82- thousand people to the state’s healthcare rolls.  But she did not mention that adding all of those people would cost taxpayers in the state 600-million-dollars.  Add the home of the World Dairy Expo to

Childhood abduction victim Elizabeth Smart is coming to Barron.  The 31-year-old will be the guest speaker at an event at the Barron High School Gym on March 15th.  The date marks five months since Jayme Closs went missing.  Closs escaped her alleged captor Jake Patterson on January 10th and is now safe with family in Barron.

We now know who was involved in an officer-involved shooting in Eau Claire County.  Officials say it was Tyler Meier was shot and killed last weekend during a confrontation with officers responding to a report of a suspicious person.  The WI DOJ continues to investigate the details of the case and Augusta Officer Levi Stumo and Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Deputy Daniel Eaton are on paid administrative leave in connection with the incident.