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The Chippewa Falls Rotary Foundation announced the lineup for the 2025 SpringFest, set to take place on May 16th and 17th at the Northern Wisconsin State Fairgrounds. Friday, May 16th: Saturday, May 17th: SpringFest 2025 will feature a diverse array of musical acts, from rock and country to high-energy performances that will keep attendees dancing all night long. In addition, festival-goers can enjoy a variety of food vendors and family-friendly activities. CLICK HERE FOR FULL DETAILS.

Wisconsin rural road improvement projects are getting 100-million dollars in state funding. The Department of Transportation says 55 projects will benefit from the money. Selected projects aim to support farmers and other producers by making it easier for them to transport agricultural and forestry products statewide. The DOT says the agricultural industry alone supports more than 350-thousand jobs in Wisconsin, and has 116-billion dollars in economic impact.

A record number of products are submitted for the 2025 US Championship Cheese Contest, hosted in Wisconsin. Almost 25-hundred entries for cheeses, butters, cultured products, and dry dairy products are submitted. Dairy manufacturers from more than 30 states will be competing for Us Championship titles.

Voting is open to the public for the names of six Madison snow plows. The City says more than 13-hundred names were submitted and have been narrowed down. Voters will be able to select their top five favorite names for each of the snow plows, and the majority vote will win.

Chippewa County Board Chair Chuck Hull has announced the names of the final candidates for the position of County Administrator. The County Board’s Executive Committee met on February 4, 2025, to review applications for the position, ultimately advancing three candidates for further consideration. In December, the County retained the executive search firm, Public Administration Associates, LLC, for assistance in finding qualified candidates. According to Chair Hull, “the County has been thorough in its search to date to arrive at our

On February 5th, 2025, shortly after 7 am, the Dunn County Communication Center received a call of a  SUV that had rear ended a school bus near the intersection of Cty Tk E and 998th St in the Town of Spring  Brook, Dunn County, Wisconsin.   The Elk Mound School District school bus, was stopped in the roadway facing east, with red lights  flashing and stop arm extended, picking up students, when it was struck from behind by an eastbound  SUV.

The L.E. Phillips Senior Center Board of Directors is pleased to announce that it has received its largest donation ever: $2.4 million from a member, Sylvia Steiner, who died in April 2023 and remembered the senior center in her will. “This is an incredibly generous donation by one of our long-time members,” said Board President Bryan Bessa.  “This donation will further the mission of the senior center and benefit its members for years to come, which was Sylvia’s intention.” A longtime

“I don’t know if it was just the way social media portrays attorneys wearing the nice suits or having a big role in court where they stand up and yell ‘objection,’ but that was always an interest of mine.” Grant Magnuson is in law school now, but it wasn’t long ago when he was an eighth-grade student at River Falls Middle School contemplating jumping into the world of college credits. When he discovered the high school Business Management Academy at

There will be a Spring Primary Election on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. In  Eau Claire County there will be one race on the ballot for State Superintendent of Public  Instruction. The two candidates who get the most votes will be placed on the April 1, 2025  Spring ballot.  Important February Primary Election Dates to Remember:  Spring Primary Election Day: Tuesday, February 18, 2025  In-person Absentee Voting: starts Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Contact your municipal clerk for  days and times available. 

 In its inaugural year, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s (DATCP’s) Tribal Elder Community Food Box Program distributed $1.5 million to nonprofit food assistance organizations to help purchase and distribute healthy, high-quality, and culturally traditional food to thousands of Tribal elders and their families, supporting Indigenous-based food producers in the process. CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE. The Tribal Elder Community Food Box Program Grants were funded in the 2023-2025 state budget for the purpose of purchasing and