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Eau Claire is getting another grocery store.  City leaders last night approved the plans for Hy-Vee to tear down the old Kmart store off Clairemont.  Demolition work is set to begin in the spring.  Planners say it will take several months after that to get the new Hy-Vee ready to open. 

Eau Claire schools are making their annual plea for more help in and around the classroom.  Superintendent Mary Ann Hardebeck yesterday said the district needs substitute teachers and part time school bus drivers.  Subs can make 110 dollars a day. The school district says pay for bus drivers is very competitive as well.  Hardebeck says they are hiring both short term and long term substitute teachers.  CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE JOB OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT

Foxconn’s Racine County plant is taking shape.  Crews put-up the first concrete walls at the plant in Mount Pleasant yesterday.  Structural steel work will begin next week.  Foxconn is still hoping to have the new plant up and running by the end of next year.  In all, Foxconn has promised to hire 13-thousand people in southeast Wisconsin.  Governor Tony Evers has questioned if that will happen. 

On Friday afternoon, August 16, 2019 at 3:25pm, the Barron County Sheriff’s Department received a 911 call of a 14 year old male who was struck in the head by a falling tree that was being cut down by another person. The incident occurred near 7 th Avenue and 19 th Street, Town of Prairie Lake, Barron County. Initial investigation shows 14 year old Floyd Lehman, of Melrose, WI, was part of a group cleaning up downed trees from a

The life expectancy in Wisconsin continues to decline.  Data released today by the Wisconsin Policy Forum shows a decline for the second straight year, which mirrors a national trend.  The life expectancy for Wisconsin babies born from 2015 to 2017 is 80 years, down slightly from 2014 to 2016.  The Policy Forum says there was a concerning rise in the rate of deaths due to alcohol especially among black residents and for people in their 20s and 30s due to opioids. 

The Boys and Girls Club of the Greater Chippewa Valley Board of Directors has announced today that they have chosen Ann Kaiser as the organization’s new CEO. Kaiser will succeed interim CEO Denisha Tate-McAlister in September. Ann has served as Director of Philanthropy for HSH Sacred Heart Foundation for more than 13 years and achieved designation as Certified Fund Raising Executive status in 2008.

A man is dead after a rollover crash in Saint Croix County.  Reports say Corey Peterson rolled down an embankment early Saturday morning and was thrown from his car.  Peterson was pronounced dead at the scene.  He’s the tenth traffic death of the year in Saint Croix County. 

A La Crosse woman is facing her fourth OWI charge.  The Wisconsin State Patrol says Colleen Kjos was pulled over on US 53 in La Crosse over the weekend for not moving over for a stopped emergency vehicle.  The patrol says the trooper who stopped Kjos saw signs of impairment, performed a field sobriety test, and arrested her. 

University of Wisconsin Med Flight has a new base in Portage.  The base was unveiled during an open house yesterday where people could take tours, look at the helicopters, and ask questions about services.  Med Flight officials say the new base will help them be able to reach people faster. 

There could be a few more answers about a missing Rusk County teen by the end of the day.  Authorities yesterday said they found the girl with a man who she’d been chatting with online.  They were reportedly heading to Florida.  Rick County’s sheriff is not identifying the man who took her, or saying how the two were caught.  The sheriff says the suspect will face weapons charges in Illinois before being brought back to Wisconsin to possibly face charges here.