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Senator Tammy Baldwin wants Attorney General William Barr to release the entire Mueller report to Congressional members.  Baldwin said today Congress needs to see the full Mueller report to know the truth and what is behind the redacted areas.  She says President Trump has not been exonerated and is not cleared of wrongdoing.  U.S. Representative Brian Steil says the American people deserve transparency when it comes to the Mueller report.  The First District Republican says he is reading through the

When Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers invited people from throughout the area to attend a state budget listening session at Chippewa Valley Technical College in Eau Claire Tuesday, April 16, over 100 people with a wide variety of interests responded. Evers and Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes have been holding listening sessions around the state to hear how the state budget could affect us. While both officials made opening remarks, the bulk of the two-hour session was spent with people in small

The Chippewa River should be back below flood stage soon.  The National Weather Service says the river in Eau Claire will fall below flood stage tomorrow night.  The weather service expects the river to stop just short of the point that it floods in downtown Eau Claire.  There could still be some high water along the river, and forecasters say Chippewa will still be fast moving. 

The man accused of hitting and killing a group of girl scouts and a mother in Lake Hallie is being ordered to stand trial.  Colten Treu is also accused of huffing from an aerosol can before the accident, but his attorney had requested those charges be dropped.  A judge recently refused to dismiss the charges and ordered Treu to stand trial.  He’ll be arraigned on May 24th. 

A Chippewa Falls man accused of sexually abusing an eleven-year-old girl is pleading guilty.  Yesterday, Craig Belden pleaded guilty to two child abuse charges in exchange for having his child sexual assault charge dropped.  Belden faces up to 12-years in prison and will be sentenced in July.

An Eau Claire man is in custody on suspicion he beat and choked a woman until she was unconscious.  A criminal complaint claims Andrew Clark and the victim got into a fight recently over his infidelity and the victim threw a lamp at him.  This caused Clark to punch and choke the victim, causing her to pass out and convulse.  Clark is facing two felonies and is being held on five-thousand-dollars bond.

A woman is accused of breaking into the Village Hall in Edgar Village and stealing venison.  A criminal complaint claims Eve Koldeway went into the hall with a man in February looking for a police officer.  The man tells police they couldn’t find an officer so Koldeway stole venison meat because the hall didn’t have cameras.  Koldeway was arrested and the man hasn’t been charged.  She’s yet to make her initial appearance.

The City of Chippewa Falls is borrowing over two-point-four-million-dollars to pay for infrastructure improvements.  If you happen to be paging through the paper then you might have seen that The Chippewa World Herald reports the borrowing package will be over five years and the city will pay about 165-thousand-dollars a year in interest.  The official borrowing rates will be approved next month.

Governor Tony Evers wants a new deal with Foxconn because he doubts the company will ever hire 13-thousand people.  The governor yesterday said the current deal to bring a factory to southeast Wisconsin is ‘no longer in play.’  Evers isn’t saying what he wants to change about the package that offers up to four-billion-dollars in tax breaks if Foxconn hires enough people.  The governor would only say he wants to protect taxpayers, and protect the environment in Wisconsin. 

Eau Claire and Chippewa counties are on the positive side of the latest Census Bureau count.  New numbers show both counties have grown over the past decade.  Eau Claire County added 56-hundred people since 2010, while Chippewa County added just over 15-hundred.  Dane County is the fastest growing in Wisconsin.  It added more than 50-thousand people.