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We now know names of those involved in the deadly boating accident on Lake Wissota over the weekend. On Saturday, a pontoon was found near the damn, up against the shoreline south of the Rod and Gun boat landing.  Crews searched the area and found the body of a 50-year-old Travis Cramer from Minnesota. 22-year-old Antonio Robinson of Minneapolis is still missing.

Get out the calculators and legal pads…it’s time to carry the numbers and The Eau Claire School Board is reviewing the budget for 2018-2019.  Members discussed requests made and ways to eliminate a budget deficit.  The district says it has around 140 million dollars to operate on and requests to go nearly six million dollars over that amount.  Some of the requests include purchasing new musical instruments, equipment for the buildings and grounds department, and upgraded technology.

Never too early to start thinking about the cameo and blaze orange…right, hunters?! The state DNR and Conservation Congress are in our area discussing chronic wasting disease.  A public meeting was held yesterday at the Rock Creek Town Hall in Rock Falls.  The meeting follows a positive test for CWD in March on a wild deer.  The Chippewa Valley CWD Advisory team is recommending that DNR staff work with willing landowners to acquire tissue samples for analysis.  The team says

Attorney General Brad Schimel says bank tellers play an important role in protecting seniors from scams.  The state recently released a training video that teaches bank tellers how do identify an older person being caught up in a scam by strangers or by someone they know.  Schimel says financial abuse of seniors is up about 18-percent this year.  The tellers are being trained to look out for abnormalities or changes in behavior of a customer and to report those red

It’s not a shot glass on campus getting attention.  UW-Madison is being urged to require the vaccine for meningitis-B. Immunization groups and the mother of a student who died from bacterial meningitis made the push in a letter sent to the school this month, noting two other Big Ten campuses, Indiana University and Purdue University, require it. In response, UW officials say the university won’t join those two schools, but it does urge students to talk to their doctors about

A boating accident on Lake Wissota leaves one dead and a recovery operation is underway for a second man. It happened over the weekend when a pontoon was found with only a dog aboard on Lake Wissota. The boat was found Saturday, up against the shoreline south of the Rod and Gun boat landing near the dam. Crews searched the area and found the body of a 50-year-old from Minnesota. The other 22-year-old man is still missing, but the Chippewa

A 24 year old Massachusetts man was arrested in Menomonie for driving under the influence with a child in the vehicle. It was just after 12 on Sunday morning when 24 year old Robert Smith Harris was speeding and didn’t stop for officers.  During the chase, the vehicle was stopping at every intersection and signaling all turns and officers followed him for about 3 miles. Harris pulled into an apartment complex. A felony stop was conducted by the Trooper and

Officials say the buildings destroyed in a recent deadly gas explosion in Sun Prairie are going to be gone by the end of this month.  It was also announced that the intersection where the explosion happened will be rebuilt in the next six months, pending City Council approval, and the old City Hall building that was damaged in the blast will be stabilized this month.

All good things must end…and the end-zone streak came to an end for one school in our state. Kimberly High School in Wisconsin was on a long winning streak…how long? Try 70 games! But, time to start the game clock all over again. They lost 31-28 Friday night to Fond du Lac, snapping their 70-game streak.  It was the school’s first loss since a 2012 state quarterfinal.  The longest all-time streak belongs to De La Salle High School in Concord,

The wheels on the bus….need people BEHIND the wheels! A bus driver shortage is continuing in Eau Claire as the school year approaches.  Student Transit takes more than 16-thousand riders to and from school each day, but is short on drivers and is having to keep up with training for new drivers.  The company is starting to see an increase in applicants over the last few weeks, but still expects to have a shortage to follow them into the school