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 Police in Chippewa Falls say the latest school threat was, once again, not credible. Officers say they will step-up patrols at the city’s middle school for the next couple of days out of an abundance of caution, but they don’t expect any problems. Chippewa Falls Schools are not saying just what the latest threat entailed. Wisconsin has seen a wave of school threats over the past two weeks. The attorney general’s office says nearly 150 school threats have come-in to

The Justice Department is suing two rural Rusk County communities over their decision to scrap their electronic voting machines. The Biden Administration filed its lawsuit last week against Thornapple and Lawrence townships. Both communities voted last year to stop using their electronic voting machines. The DOJ complaint says federal law requires at least one electronic voting machine at each polling place so that disabled voters have an option. Lawrence Township leaders say they’ve already settled with the Justice Department and

There are a lot of requests for more in Governor Tony Evers’ new state budget. The Institute for Reforming Government took a look at Evers proposed two-year spending plan and found billions of dollars in new requests. The largest, four billion-dollars, comes from the state’s Department of Health Services.  That money is tied to a proposed Medicaid expansion that the governor’s office says would bring in billions-more from Washington. D.C. The University of Wisconsin is asking for nearly a billion-dollars

No students are hurt after a school bus carrying a soccer team was involved in a crash last night. The Chippewa Falls Area Unified School District Superintendent says the varsity boys’ soccer team was traveling to Menomonie for a game when their school bus was hit. An SUV reportedly ran a stop sign and hit the bus. No students or other bus riders were injured.

Wisconsin is in the top ten U-S states with the most factory farm waste production. The Food and Water Watch analysis ranks Wisconsin tenth in the nation, producing 33 billion pounds of waste annually. That’s four times the amount of human waste in the state. Iowa is at the top of the list with 109 billion pounds of factory farm waste, followed by Texas.

Wisconsin is giving out 125-thousand dollars in grants for hunting recruitment and retention. The state Department of Natural Resources says it’ll give out the money to projects that encourage young people to learn how to hunt in Wisconsin, and increase the total number of hunters in the state. Past projects that benefited from Hunter R-Three grants include expos for new hunters, archery ranges for after-school clubs, and purchasing outdoor wheelchairs for public use. Applications will be accepted until October fifteenth.

“Growing up in a Midwestern tool-and-die manufacturing family, the polytechnic roots resonate with my life’s paths, and I know how rare — and needed — applied learning expertise is, not only here in Wisconsin, but also on a national and global scale.” -Schmitt A new dean of the College of Arts and Human Sciences has been named at University of Wisconsin-Stout.  The appointment of Jason Schmitt was announced recently by Glendalí Rodríguez, UW-Stout provost and vice chancellor for Academic Affairs. Schmitt, who began

There’s been an arrest in a 40-year-old cold case out of Tomah. Officials from Monroe County, Vernon County and La Crosse County yesterday said they’ve finally arrested a suspect in the 1985 murder of a UW-La Crosse student. Terry Dolowy’s body was headless and burned when officials found it back in February of 1985, and her death went unsolved until earlier this year when investigators say they got a DNA match to a suspect still living in Tomah. The Monroe

An Eau Claire man is dead after falling while climbing Devils Tower in Wyoming. The National Parks Service says officers found 21-year-old Stewart Porter’s body Sunday near the El Cracko Diablo portion of the tower. Investigators say he and a climbing partner were rappelling the second pitch when he fell. His partner was trapped on the tower until Park Service crews could rescue them. See more coverage with WEAU 13 News and a click here.

UW-Eau Claire is once again on the list of best colleges in the Midwest. The latest U.S. News and World Report’s annual ranking is out, and the Eau Claire campus is ranked fourth in the Midwest for best colleges.  UW-EC is also ranked 20th out of 165 public and private regional schools in the Midwest. That’s up one spot from last year. Chancellor James Schmidt says the rankings are recognition of the quality education at the UW, particularly at the