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Just because Sean Duffy is no longer in politics doesn’t mean he won’t be talking about politics on TV. The former congressman for the northwoods yesterday announced that he’s been hired as a political contributor at CNN. Duffy left Congress last month to spend more time with his wife and nine kids. Duffy is still talked about as a possible candidate for governor or U.S. Senate here in Wisconsin in 2022.Justices on the Wisconsin Supreme Court want to know if there is a fourth

Some people on unemployment in Wisconsin could soon have to pass a drug test to get their benefits. The Department of Labor is giving Wisconsin and several other states the green light to test people in certain jobs as part of the condition to receive unemployment benefits. But it likely won’t happen anytime soon. Governor Evers says the state is in the beginning stages of the program. He also says he doesn’t want to take benefits away from anyone.

A response to a fire just after 4 on Saturday morning leads to the discovery of a dead man. The Eau Claire Police Department and Eau Claire Fire Department responded to a structure fire in the 600 block of Congress Street and once able to get inside discovered a body. The initial investigation has determined responders were called to the residence for a report of an intruder and the home was on fire. After the tenant confronted an intruder in

TRICK O’ TREAT! UWEC is preparing to host the ghosts and gobins. Residence halls at UW-Eau Claire will offer trick-or-treating for area children Oct. 31 in celebration of Halloween. From 5-7 p.m., door-to-door trick-or-treating will be offered in Chancellors, Oak Ridge, Governors and Murray residence halls. Students offering candy will have orange decorations on their room doors to indicate that trick-or-treaters are welcome. Also from 5-7 p.m., lobby-only trick-or-treating will be offered in Aspenson-Mogensen, Bridgman, Horan, Karlgaard Towers, Thomas, Putnam,

Governor Tony Evers is calling for a special session for the Wisconsin Legislature to take up gun control bills.  The session is set for November 7th, but already leaders of the Republican dominated State House and Senate say they won’t take up the proposals.  Nothing requires the legislature to move on the governor’s request.  Republicans see it as an attack on the Second Amendment while the governor says the vast majority of Wisconsinites show support for universal background checks and red flag laws.

Property owners in the Eau Claire school district should have lower taxes next year.  Schools announced last Friday they’re projecting the first balanced budget in the last nine years.  They say this will cause the tax levee to drop slightly.  They say the owner of a 150-thousand dollar home will pay about 36 dollars less in property taxes.

The death toll in northern Wisconsin from the man accused of shooting three people at a Wausau cemetery could have been much worse. Police say Henry West tried to start a fire at his apartment in Schofield, and left a bomb at the house next door. They also say West set a fire in that home with an open gas line. Investigators say that could have killed 100 people had the gas line exploded. West is facing homicide charges for the shooting

If President Trump is looking for a new place to host the G7, why not Milwaukee? Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett sent the president a letter yesterday inviting him to hold the economic summit here next year. The president is looking for a new site after pulling the meeting from one of his resorts. Barrett said Milwaukee is a great city and tells a great story.  He says Milwaukee is on America’s ‘Fresh Coast’, the Great Lakes.

Investigators in Eau Claire are looking for the cause of a weekend house fire that left one person dead. The home in the 600-block of Congress Street burned early Saturday morning. The person who died was found inside the home.  Eau Claire police have not yet identified the victim.

A home in Eau Claire has about 75-thousand dollars worth of damage after a late night fire.  The police department says the fire likely started in the kitchen of a home on Normandale Drive late last night and moved into the attic.  Everyone was already out of the house when firefighters arrived and no one was hurt.