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Eau Claire city officials are eying land near Roosevelt Elementary School for a new park.  The Eau Claire Plan Commission voted yesterday to buy three plots of land south of Folsom Street between Seventh and Bolles Streets.  The city has put a high priority on buying new park space.  The City Council will vote on the purchase next Tuesday. 

A group of unions and a Democratic lawmaker are challenging the laws Republicans passed during the lame-duck session.  This marks the third lawsuit filed disputing the bills passed in an overnight session in December.  Five unions and state Senator Janet Bewley filed the suit in Dane County Court yesterday, arguing the new laws illegally weaken the governor and attorney general’s powers and place a financial burden on taxpayers. 

Downtown Eau Claire may soon have a new senior living space.  The Eau Claire Plan Commission approved a rezoning plan yesterday to replace three office and two residential buildings across from Wilson Park.  The complex would have 120 apartment units and over four thousand square feet of space for a memory car and fitness facility for residents.  The City Council will vote on the measure next week. 

Plans are moving forward for the Eau Claire Veterans Tribute Trail.  The Eau Claire Plan Commission approved the project yesterday, which would run along Forest Street near Phoenix Park.  Monuments for past American wars and a veterans mall are set to be located at the end of the path.  Final approval for the project will be voted on next week by the City Council. 

An Eau Claire man is the winner of 200-thousand dollars in the lottery.  Officials say David Beck won the money Friday in the Pot of Gold Crossword.  He purchased his winning ticket at the Kwik Trip on Brackett Avenue in Eau Claire, which will receive four thousand dollars for its sale. 

Bond is set for three people accused in the death of a seven-year-old boy in Manitowoc County.  Timothy Hauschultz, Tina McKeever-Hauschultz and fifteen-year-old Damien Hauschultz are all charged in the death last spring of Ethan Hauschultz.  The boy was found beaten and buried in the snow.  Bond for the three suspects range from 75 to 150-thousand-dollars.  

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is investigating the illegal shooting of a bald eagle.  The DNR is asking for the public’s help with the investigation.  The eagle was found on private property off Randolph Street in Mishicot in early December and taken for treatment, but died from its injuries.  The eagle may have been shot while feeding at one of the nearby rivers. 

Senator Tammy Baldwin says she’s bringing a woman battling MS to tomorrow’s State of the Union address.  Baldwin says today Diane Whitcraft was taking the same medication for more than 23 years when prescription costs jumped to a point she could no longer afford.  She stopped taking the medication in 2017.  Baldwin says she’s heard from countless Wisconsinites who can’t afford the medications they have relied on for years and Whitcraft is an example that lower prescription drug costs are necessary. 

State records show Tyco Fire Products knew firefighting foam was contaminating groundwater years before the company was forced to investigate.  The Journal Sentinel says today the Marionette company knew for about four years that the contamination had extended past it’s testing boundaries.  In 2017 the company suspended spraying foam products outdoors and began providing bottled water to residents whose private wells may have been affected.  There have been some studies that suggests the chemicals in the foam can lead to

A 33-year-old man has his trial date set in a case involving the death of his three-month-old daughter.  Haugen resident Curtis Strand will stand trial on June 17th on a first-degree reckless homicide charge in the death of Haeven Strand-Dostal in 2017.  The girl died of a head injury and Strand claims she fell off his knee and hit the floor but a medical examiner says her injury required more force than that.  Strand is facing up to 25 years