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Once again, it was a false alarm. Chippewa Falls Police and the city’s school district says yesterday’s threat to the high school turned out to be a false threat. In fact, the school says it was part of a wave of false threats throughout Wisconsin yesterday. Police rushed to the school after getting a bomb threat yesterday, and officers searched the school. Chippewa Falls Police say they take all threats to local schools very seriously.

The U.S. Supreme Court will not hear a challenge to Eau Claire Schools’ gender policy. The court yesterday fell one justice short for a review of the policy that says parents have to ‘earn’ the ability to know if their kids are transitioning at school. A number of parents sued over the policy back in 2022, but the court said they didn’t have standing in the case. The Wisconsin Institute for Law and Liberty, which represented those parents, yesterday said

Wisconsin is moving ahead with its deer management changes. The Department of Natural Resources yesterday said it’s looking for feedback on its plan to shift the boundaries for some hunting zones in the state. The DNR says the idea is to return to habitat-based deer management units in the Northern Forest Zone and adjusts a portion of the Central Forest Deer Management Zone boundary and select Metropolitan Sub-unit boundaries. There’s a public meeting on the proposal set for early next

AT&T is getting out of the home phone business. The company yesterday said it is going to end landline service in 20 states, including Wisconsin, by 2029. AT&T said the copper wire service is both expensive and outdated. The company says fewer and fewer people have landlines in their homes, though a 2022 survey said as many as 360 thousand people in Wisconsin still use their landlines. AT&T says it will offer landline users a system that allows them to

 Western Wisconsin man is charged with his twelfth OWI. Officers in Altoona say they pulled over 63-year-old Mitchell Bundy on Highway 12 for going 58 in a 45-mile-per-hour zone. Officers say they noticed the suspect’s eyes were bloodshot and he smelled like alcohol. Bundy had already been convicted of eleven OWIs in three different states. He could face 15 years in prison and a 50-thousand dollar fine if he’s convicted of another.

Wisconsin is getting ten-million dollars for youth mental health services. The Department of Public Instruction says the federal grant will be distributed over the next five years through the School-Based Mental Health Professionals Grant Program. The money will go toward recruiting and retaining school counselors and making sure there are more diverse mental health workers in schools statewide. DPI says public schools hired almost 350 mental health workers in the five years since the last time it was awarded the

Madison is one of the top ten most caring cities in the US. A new report from Wallet Hub compared 100 cities based on the average amount of money donated to charity, volunteer hours, and homeless shelters. Madison was ranked eighth most caring, with Virginia Beach and Scottsdale, Arizona, at the top of the list.

On Saturday, December 7th, 2024, the Marshfield Police Department responded to a call regarding the discovery of human remains in a field adjacent to W. McMillan St, near N. St. Joseph’s Ave in the City of Marshfield. Upon arrival, officers secured the scene and initiated an investigation. The individual’s identity was able to be determined, however, will not be released pending notification of their family. Preliminary information suggests that no foul play was involved, diminishing any concern for the public’s

Downtown Menomonie invites the community to celebrate the holiday season at the annual Whimsical Winter Daze Parade on Thursday, December 12, 2024, from 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM. This well-loved celebration promises an evening full of festive activities, community connection, and holiday magic. Festivities kick off with wagon rides, photos with Santa, live reindeer, deliver your letters to Santa, enjoy holiday movies at Harvey Theater, photo booths, food trucks, and free Swiss Miss hot cocoa to keep guests warm and

Lawmakers are going to get an update from Wisconsin’s technical college boss this week. Technical College System president Layla Merrifield is due to speak to the Senate Committee on Universities and Revenue on Wednesday. Lawmakers say they are continuing their look into how to better train a new workforce for the state. Wisconsin has long been facing a worker shortage, and the UW System is facing a student shortage. The hope is to use the technical college system in the