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A cut in line AT El Patio leads to a stabbing on Water Street. The ECPD updates us on a case from the weekend: On March 3rd at 2:40 am, Officers were on Water St. monitoring the crowd when they were made aware of a stabbing that occurred in the 400 block Water St. An ECPD Officer was immediately able to locate the incident on public space cameras and find the suspect fleeing the area. ECFD EMS arrived on scene

IN A STATEMENT RELEASED TODAY: The Wisconsin Department of Justice (DOJ) Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI), at the request of the Eau Claire Sheriff’s Office, has been investigating an officer involved death (OID) that took place just before noon on Saturday, March 2, 2019 on Kempten Road between Augusta and Fairchild in Wisconsin. An Eau Claire County Sheriff’s deputy was dispatched to a report of a suspicious person in the area. The Augusta Police Department responded to assist the deputy.

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 Tuesday, 3/5/19 and will end at 5 p.m. on 3/7/19.    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

University of Wisconsin-Stout Chancellor Bob Meyer announced today, (Monday, March 4) that he is retiring on Aug. 18 from the institution where he has worked for a total of 32 years. “It is time for me and my wife, Debbie, to enter a new phase in our lives,” Meyer said. “We will miss the students, faculty and staff at UW-Stout who have meant so much to us over the years.” Meyer, 62, became the seventh chancellor at UW-Stout on Aug.

A 36 year old Somerset man was arrested for OWI. Lazeric L Bloodsaw crashed a vehicle just after 4 on Sunday afternoon, March 3rd. A Wisconsin State Trooper was called to investigate a driving complaint and crash at mile post 44 westbound on Interstate 94 in Dunn County. Upon arrival the trooper noticed the crashed vehicle resembled an earlier attempt to locate driving complaint for aggressive driving, speeding and cutting other drivers off. The suspect vehicle had now crashed into

Nearly 2,100 individuals and businesses have applied to grow or processindustrial hemp in 2019, the Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection reports, with more applications expected in the next week or so. “This is a dramatic increase from last year,” said Brian Kuhn, director of the department’s Plant Industry Bureau, which houses the hemp program. “We attribute much of the increase to removal of industrial hemp from the controlled substances act as part of the 2018 farm bill late

Two former Eau Claire employers are running out of time to pay enough restitution to avoid more jail time.  If you were paging through the The Leader-Telegram, you likely saw the reports that Larry Lokken and Kay Onarheim have paid almost 70-thousand dollars in restitution for stealing from taxpayers but they still have over 600-thousand dollars left to pay.  If the money isn’t paid in the next 16 months they’ll both serve and extra five years in prison.

It is freezing cold, but not cold enough for folks to get to the ice caves on the Apostle Islands.  The National Parks Service says the ice is too slushy for visitors to head out to the caves on Lake Superior.  This is just the latest disappointment for ice trekkers.  The caves at the islands haven’t been open to visitors since the winter of 2014-2015.  *PHOTO CREDIT: Travel Wisconsin

Eau Claire is about eight inches of snow away from having the snowiest winter on record.  Reports show 81-point-four inches of snow has fallen since July 1st of last year, the fourth most all-time.  If the city gets at least eight inches of snow between now and June 30th, it would break the snowiest year ever in 1996-97 when 89-point-three-inches of snow fell.  Wisconsin police are hoping to be a little less busy responding to crashes this month.  The Wisconsin Department of Transportation

The Eau Claire school board is continuing talks about Memorial High School’s new athletic complex at it’s meeting tonight.  Reports show a proposal is being considered that calls for the school district to match an over one-million-dollar donation made by Eau Claire residents.  With that proposal improvements would include installing artificial turf at the school’s track, resurfacing the track, and installing new lights, among other improvements.  If the proposal is accepted plans are expected to be made by September.