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If the city of New Richmond doesn’t want a immigration detention center, the company that was going to build it says they will go somewhere else.  Immigration Centers of America yesterday dropped plans to build a facility to hold people who are in this country illegally.  New Richmond city leaders say the center doesn’t fit with their comprehensive plan.  ICA said the decision will cost New Richmond almost 600 jobs and nearly 40-million-dollars in economic benefits.

A western Wisconsin man who admits that he was driving while high will spend less than a week in jail after he hit a man walking along the side of the road.  A Barron County judge yesterday sentenced Nathan Ahlm to five days in jail for the wreck last December.  The victim was taken to the hospital, but survived the crash.

Wisconsin is staying close to full employment.  The latest unemployment report from the state show’s Wisconsin’s jobless rate is just two-point-nine-percent.  That’s up a tiny bit from a year ago, but is still below the national unemployment rate of three-point-eight-percent.

Foxconn is once again trying to reassure state leaders that they are committed to the state of Wisconsin.  The company yesterday issued a statement that says they are focusing on the long term jobs picture in the state.  Foxconn is moving ahead with its new LCD plant in Racine County.  The reassurance comes after Governor Tony Evers says he doesn’t think Foxconn will ever hire the 13-thousand people they’ve promised to employ. 

The Center for Dairy Research at University of Wisconsin-Madison is getting a grant to create dairy drinks that don’t need to be refrigerated.  The center’s director says it recently received about one-million dollars from the Wisconsin Economic Corp. and Dairy Farmers of Wisconsin.  The director says the program will use aseptic technology that sterilizes milk and its packaging so it limits the amount of bacteria milk is exposed to.  Doing this, milk wouldn’t need to be refrigerated until after it’s

A Belmont couple faces felony child abuse charges for neglecting their kids.  Dalton Hopper and Jamie Lee Weigel face charges of child abuse, neglect and intentionally causing harm.  The couple has two girls, a one-year-old and a four-month-old.  They brought the four-month-old to a health facility in Dodgeville earlier this month and officials say the infant was about a week from dying from malnutrition. 

The state’s unemployment rate remains steady.  Statistics released today by the Department of Workforce Development show the unemployment rate for March remained at two-point-nine-percent with 67-percent of the labor force employed.  Wisconsin added 92-hundred non-farm jobs and over 12-thousand private-sector jobs between March of last year and March of 2019.  

Senator Tammy Baldwin wants Attorney General William Barr to release the entire Mueller report to Congressional members.  Baldwin said today Congress needs to see the full Mueller report to know the truth and what is behind the redacted areas.  She says President Trump has not been exonerated and is not cleared of wrongdoing.  U.S. Representative Brian Steil says the American people deserve transparency when it comes to the Mueller report.  The First District Republican says he is reading through the

When Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers invited people from throughout the area to attend a state budget listening session at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire Tuesday, April 16, over 100 people with a wide variety of interests responded. Evers and Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes have been holding listening sessions around the state to hear how the state budget could affect us. While both officials made opening remarks, the bulk of the two-hour session was spent with people in small

The Chippewa River should be back below flood stage soon.  The National Weather Service says the river in Eau Claire will fall below flood stage tomorrow night.  The weather service expects the river to stop just short of the point that it floods in downtown Eau Claire.  There could still be some high water along the river, and forecasters say Chippewa will still be fast moving.