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An Eau Claire Chamber of Commerce video intended to get people to move to the city is the winner of a regional media award.  The Think Eau Claire video and website won Digital Campaign of the Year from the Mid America Chamber earlier this week.  Reports say the video has been viewed more than 87-thousand times since it launched last October. 

A company in Chippewa Falls is building the world’s most powerful computer.  If you watched the news on WQOW, then you likely saw the reports that supercomputer company Cray is building the computer for a Tennessee based company and it’ll cost over 600-million dollars and weigh more than one-million pounds.  The company’s CEO says the computer will be faster than the top 160 supercomputers in the world combined.  It’s expected to be finished by 2021. 

Recent heavy rain in the upper Chippewa River watershed is causing increased runoff through the system and will result in rising river levels on the Chippewa River in Eau Claire and elevating it to an Action Stage. At 5 a.m. the Chippewa River gauge at Grand Avenue read 764 feet. This is nine feet below the downtown flood stage of 773 feet. The current crest projection is 768 feet for Sunday, May 12, 2019. At this level, water will have

Western Wisconsin’s congressman wants to expand federal funding to allow folks in some rural communities to qualify for hospice care.  Congressman Ron Kind says right now people who use rural health clinics or federally qualified health centers cannot enroll in hospice because the clinics and centers cannot bill Medicare.  Kind says that sometimes leaves people in rural Wisconsin without care at the end of their lives. 

For the first time in nearly a decade, hunters in every Wisconsin county will be able to bag a doe.  The Department of Natural Resources yesterday said there will be no buck-only counties in the state this year.  Regulators say the decision is the surest sign yet that the deer population in Wisconsin is rebounding. 

Downtown Eau Claire will look much different by the end of the day.  Organizers are installing the sculptures for this year’s Eau Claire Sculpture Tour.  There will be 55 sculptures on the tour this year.  Crews started installing them this morning.  

The governor is criticizing Republicans for their opposition to Medicaid expansion.  Tony Evers tweeted today that the Republicans voted to ignore the will of the people by removing Medicaid expansion from The People’s Budget.  The governor says there needs to be push-back.  He urged Wisconsinites to tell their legislators to put Medicaid expansion back in the budget. 

On Monday evening just after 6:30 reports came in of a 4-wheeler crash in the Town of Clinton on the trail east of Almena. The Barron County Sheriff’s Department responded to the scene along with the Cumberland Ambulance, Almena Fire Department and the Life Link Helicopter. Initial investigation shows that Nathan Sanchez, 22 of Long Beach CA, was operating a 4-wheeler and failed to negotiate a curve and struck a tree. Sanchez was flown from the scene with serious leg

Wisconsin Senator Tammy Baldwin is introducing a bill that would create annual federal funds to prevent chronic wasting disease in deer.  Reports say the money would fund research to learn how to detect the disease, suppress it, and determine if there’s genetic resistance.  Baldwin says the bill is important because CWD threatens hunting tradition in Wisconsin and the health of deer herds.

The City of Eau Claire and a contractor could be fined tens-of-thousands of dollars for asbestos violations.  The Department of Natural Resources claims Black Thermal Systems Incorporated mishandled asbestos removal during the Eau Claire city hall renovation that started last November.  An enforcement conference with everyone involved is scheduled for next Monday.  The city and the company are looking at a possible 75-thousand-dollar fine.