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Authorities are sharing the name of a person who lost their life this week in a La Crosse collision.  Twenty-year-old Braeden Felber was riding a motorcycle Tuesday afternoon when he collided with a car near West Avenue and Farnam Street.  Felber later died at a local hospital.

Chippewa Falls City Council is back at full strength.  The body had been left with vacancies following the summer resignations of Scott Sullivan and Heather Martell.  Tim Normand had already taken the Sullivan seat and now Dan Dixson has been sworn in as Martell’s replacement. 

WWR Environmental along with Eau Claire County will be hosting the final clean sweep event of the year this weekend. Saturday’s event will run from 8 a.m. to noon at 5200 Ryder Road.  The event will provide Eau Claire County residents with the opportunity to safely rid themselves of household hazardous materials.  Most materials can be disposed of for free though there will be a small fee for things like latex paints and light bulbs.  More details can be found

Wisconsin Representative Francesca Hong is announcing her campaign for Governor.  Hong is a Madison native and serves in the State Assembly, while also working as a bartender and line cook.  She was elected in 2020.  She joins four other democrats in the race: Lieutenant Governor Sara Rodriguez, Milwaukee County Executive David Crowley, State Senator Kelda Roys, and American Family Field vendor Ryan Strnad.  Republican candidates include Washington County Executive Josh Shoemann and businessman Bill Berrien.  Primary elections will be next

AI data centers in Wisconsin are expected to use more energy than all homes in the state combined. A new report by Clean Wisconsin says two approved data centers in Wisconsin — the Microsoft center in Mt. Pleasant and the Vantage center in Port Washington — report they could use three-point-nine gigawatts of energy. That’s enough to power four-point-three million homes, while US Census data shows Wisconsin has less than three million. There are three other proposed or approved data

Fall is here, and the Chippewa Valley Museum has some scary good programs for you. Monster Monday, Monday, October 13, 4-7pm Join us October 13 for some monstrously good family time. Bat Ambassador Heather Mishefske, a Wisconsin Master Naturalist, is swooping in to take us to the Bat Cave for a special presentation at 4:30pm or 6pm. Fuel up with complimentary pizza and then head to the ice cream parlor to purchase some sweet treats. Keep the fun going with

A man who prosecutors say fatally shot his stepfather is learning his fate.  Reports say that on January 18th of 2024, Alan Fry went to his mother’s Farnam Street home in La Crosse and shot 61-year-old Brady Fredrickson multiple times.  Fredrickson died at the scene.  Fry pleaded no contest by reason of mental disease or defect to second-degree intentional homicide charges back in July, and has now been remanded to a state mental health facility for a term of 35

Bond is being set at ten-thousand dollars for a man accused of recording a woman in the shower on the campus of the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire.  The incident happened this past Saturday at Towers Hall South with the victim saying the suspect — since identified as 26-year-old Deshaun Barkus — fled the scene after being spotted.  Barkus was later arrested on a charge of capturing an intimate representation without consent and invasion of privacy with a surveillance

Sentencing is being ordered for a Chippewa Falls man convicted on federal drug charges.  Leroy McNamara was busted after prosecutors say he sold methamphetamine twice to a confidential informant.  He later pleaded guilty to a distribution charge and has now been ordered to serve seven years in prison.

A Wisconsin supermarket chain is getting new ownership.  St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets announced a plan to buy one-hundred percent of Skogen’s Festival Foods and its Hometown Grocers.  The deal is expected to close in October.  Festival Foods owns 51 stores in Wisconsin currently.