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Captain healthy is flying in to help local kids with the super power of staying WELL! The first SuperHero Wellness Day will be held from 1 to 5 pm on October 27th at Sleep Inn Conference Center/29 Pines. Over 15 health practitioners will be giving chair massages, Reiki (Ray-kee) treatments, Qigong (chee gong), yoga and meditation instruction, nutrition tips and art and musictherapy. Plus, there will be raffles, vendors, costume judging, games and a bake sale. All proceeds go to

The party is coming and we now we know who is bringing the party to Eau Claire for COUNTRY JAM 2020!! The lineup for next year’s three-day Country Jam USA festival is out.  The festival announced Tuesday there will be appearances by country stars such as Luke Combs, Joe Diffie, Chris Young, Chris Jansen, John Michael Montgomery, and more.  The lineup also includes Barron native Chris Kroeze.  You can hit the JACKPOT with a LoCash party and. For all the

One person is dead and another person is hurt following a two-motorcycle crash in Pierce County.  The county sheriff’s office says Kathy Kahler was riding her motorcycle north on Highway 35 near Diamond Bluff Sunday afternoon when she lost control at a high rate of speed, hit a guardrail, and was thrown from her bike.  Ian Gardiner tried to avoid Kahler’s motorcycle but crashed and was also thrown from his bike.  Kahler was pronounced dead at the scene and Gardiner

A construction project on State Street in Eau Claire is just about complete.  The project began back in the spring with a tentative completion date of November 22nd.  Now the city says one roundabout on Hamilton Avenue could open as early as this week.  The rest of the construction could wrap up as early as November 1st if the weather cooperates.

University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire’s McIntyre Library is the winner of a national award.  The library was recently selected by the U.S. Government Publishing Office as the 2019 Federal Depository Library of the Year.  Reports say the library has been a member of the Federal Depository Library Program since 1951.

Planners for next summer’s Democratic National Convention are, once again, putting out the call for volunteers. Convention organizers yesterday said they need 15-thousand volunteers to help with next summer’s convention in Milwaukee. Volunteers are needed for everything from picking people up from the airport to working during the convention at Fiserv Forum.

City leaders in Eau Claire are looking to go on the record as saying they don’t support racism. The city council is expected to vote for a resolution tonight that condemns a note that a UW Eau Claire student says she found on her dorm room door earlier this fall. The resolution says Eau Claire is a place where everyone should feel welcome.

The first of three public forums to find a new superintendent in Eau Claire is this week. Eau Claire school board members last night agreed to start looking for Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck’s replacement. She is leaving at the end of the school year. The school board says three public forums will help them decide what they are looking for. The school district will then expand its search across the country to find a new superintendent before the start of

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

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.