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A handful of western Wisconsin counties are already looking at a winter storm watch ahead of this week’s storm.  The National Weather Service says the watch will start tomorrow evening for counties just north and west of Eau Claire.  It will last til Friday afternoon.  Forecasters say the northern half of Wisconsin could see six to eight inches of snow from the storm that’s due to arrive tomorrow.

An Eau Claire woman will spend the next two years in county jail for a 2017 crash that left four people dead.  The judge in Chippewa Falls yesterday said he could not find a reason to send 25-year-old Cara Stevens to state prison, but he also said she needed to be held accountable.  Police say Stevens ran a stop sign and smashed into another car in the northeast corner of Chippewa County in May of 2017.  Stevens pleaded no contest

It was about 4:15 p.m. on Monday when the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a one vehicle accident with injuries. The caller indicated the accident was on State Hwy 73 near Shiner Drive in the Township of Taft. Once Deputies arrived on scene they found the operator of the vehicle, 56 year old  Danny L. Bunnell of Lublin Wisconsin deceased at the scene. Initial investigation into the accident indicates Bunnell was wearing a seat belt and was

A former show choir teacher in La Crosse is heading to prison for eight years after he admitted to having sex with students.  A judge sentenced Dustin Bagstad yesterday.  Prosecutors charged him with 19 felonies back in 2017.  Bagstad pleaded guilty in January to just five charges, the rest were dismissed.  La Crosse County’s District Attorney says the sentence is validation for Bagstad’s victims.

Folks in western Wisconsin are the latest to get their say in what could be included in the next state budget.  State Representatives Jesse James and Rob Summerfield yesterday hosted a budget listening session.  Both reps say it’s going to be important to build a consensus on the budget.  Neither expect lawmakers and Governor Evers to agree on much, so they say it’s important that people let lawmakers know what they want to see as a priority.

The union that represents most Harley Davidson workers says they want more job guarantees in their new contract.  Leaders with United Steelworkers Local 2-209 say the most recent contract offer from Harley included a raise but did not address the use of temporary workers, or the loss of jobs to other plants or other countries.  The union says there are about half as many workers at Harley Davidson’s Milwaukee-area plants as there were a decade ago. 

Recent rain runoff in the upper Chippewa River watershed is likely to result in increased runoff passing through the Chippewa River system and will cause rising river gauge readings in Eau Claire. At 1 p.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read 768.3 feet. This is 5 feet below the downtown flood stage of 773 feet. At this level, for the safety of residents the following areas are closed: o Chippewa River Trail  street underpasses  Farwell St.

Bernie Sanders has a campaign stop planned in Wisconsin.  The U.S. Senator from Vermont plans to be in Madison on Friday where he is scheduled to speak at James Madison Park around 5 p.m.  Tickets are not required for Friday’s event but it’s advised that people RSVP to the Sanders campaign beforehand.  Sanders won the Wisconsin  Democratic Primary in 2016.

During Children’s Dental Health month, Eau Claire Healthy Communities sponsored a dental poster contest. The contest was for 4th and 5th grade students in Eau Claire County schools. Students were challenged to design a poster promoting good dental health using the contest theme. The theme was, “Brush and clean in between to build a healthy smile”. 117 posters from Altoona, Augusta, and Eau Claire were turned in! The Action Team awarded 16 prizes of a water bottle and Oral-B power

An Eau Claire woman is going to jail for causing a deadly crash in May of 2017.  Reports say Cara Stevens pleaded no contest to homicide by negligent operation of a motor vehicle in Chippewa County Court in January and was sentenced last week to two years in jail.  Raven Ellin, Jonathan Jorgensen, Mikaila Toske, and Kristine Kummer all died in the crash.  A criminal complaint says the crash was caused because Stevens ran a stop sign.