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Eau Claire County’s sheriff says it’s the largest cocaine bust he’s ever seen.  Sheriff Ron Cramer says a tip last week lead deputies to a stash of 68 pounds of cocaine inside a trailer at the local Menards.  Prosecutors yesterday charged Samuel Serrano from California for having the drugs.  Sheriff Cramer says they know where the drugs were headed, but aren’t releasing that information just yet.  The sheriff says the drugs are worth at least three million-dollars.

A woman accused of trying to mail drugs into the Chippewa County Jail is behind bars herself.  Prosecutors filed felony charges yesterday against 26-year-old Danielle Puig of Menomonie.  Jailers in Chippewa Falls say they became suspicious of some of the mail she was sending.  Sure enough, they say, she was hiding heroin under the stamps on some letters.  Puig is due in court today.

Some kids in Eau Claire will get a chance at a new kind of classroom.  School leaders last night approved a new virtual charter school.  There will be just 28 seats in the new school when it opens next year, but planners hope to expand the year after that.  The new charter school will be online, but school board members say it will be similar to a traditional classroom.  There’s no word yet how parents can apply for the new

There’s some fear that Wisconsin’s worker shortage will only get worse over the next 15 years.  The group, Forward Analytics, is out with a new report that suggests the state is not doing enough to keep or attract young workers to the state.  The group says without more young workers, there won’t be enough people to fill the jobs that will be left empty by retiring baby boomers.

The next piece of Titletown could soon be under construction.  Planners in Ashwaubenon will consider the final approval for a five-story office building, an apartment complex, and some townhomes for the area just west of Lambeau Field.  Ashwaubenon’s community development director Aaron Schuette says the hope is to finalize everything next month.  Construction could then start in June. 

The Wisconsin Supreme Court will decide if Republican lawmakers overstepped their bounds with a handful of laws from last December.  The court announced late yesterday that it will hear arguments in May about those December reforms.  The question is whether the legislature stepped on the powers of the governor and attorney general when they passed a law to keep Governor Evers or A-G Josh Kaul from removing the state from the Obamacare lawsuits.  

The new contract for steelworkers at Harley Davidson includes both a pay raise and a job guarantee.  The workers’ union, United Steelworkers Local 2-209, yesterday said the new deal will boost pay by 14-percent and includes job protections.  Harley Davidson is also offering an early retirement incentive for some workers.  Just over 900 workers at Harley’s plants in the MIlwaukee area and in Tomahawk are covered by the new contract. 

It’s only fair that Christian Yelich be the one to deliver a new puppy to a Muskego family.  Yelich yesterday surprised Libby and Lola Labodda with a new puppy, named Yeli, after they brought a sign to a Brewers game last month that said if Yelich hit a homerun, their dad would buy them a puppy.  He did.  And yesterday, he delivered the girls the dog at Miller Park. The Labodda family says the Brewers helped organize the special day,

Former Governor Scott Walker is the new national honorary chairman of the Institute for Reforming Government.  The Wisconsin-based group announced his addition to the organization today.  Officials say Walker’s experience will make him a valuable asset as the group looks to offer policy solutions to leaders in government.  Walker says the institute’s mission is about furthering conservative reform across the country.

The Eau Claire County Parks & Forest Department announces that the Lake Altoona water level will begin to be raised to normal summer elevation beginning on Monday, April 29. It has been determined that ice-off conditions now exist on the lake. Lake front property owners will have through April 28 to do any lake front improvements to their property before the level begins to rise on April 29. It is expected the lake level will be back to the normal