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You likely know the classic tale of the tortoise and the hare, but this week we meet a tortoise who gets himself  into a hairy situation.  This week’s Friday Feel Good takes us to the West Coast where cops in Portland, Oregon randomly found someone’s pet tortoise walking down a path.  His name is Bowser, he’d been missing two days, and somehow made it to the other side of a busy highway.   Sgt. Kevin Allen talking about the rescue and the miracle that got

Authorities in Lake Hallie have an update after a string of vehicle thefts. Between June 27th and August 6, 2024, there were multiple vehicle thefts and thefts from  vehicles that occurred in neighborhoods throughout the Village of Lake Hallie. One of those  vehicle thefts resulted in a short vehicle pursuit on July 27, 2024. On August 8, 2024,  investigators identified a suspect based on information obtained from Crime Stoppers and the  Chippewa Falls Police Department. On August 14, 2024, a Lake

A man is dead after a motorcycle wreck in Chippewa Falls earlier this week. Chippewa Falls Police say the wreck happened Tuesday near the new Kwik Trip on Chippewa Crossing Boulevard. Officers say it looks like the 31-year-old man was speeding and hit a light pole. The investigation into the cause of the crash is on-going.

There aren’t many answers about a small plane crash in Chetek on Wednesday. Police say the plane went down at the Municipal Airport on Wednesday. The pilot was taken by helicopter to a hospital in Eau Claire because of his injuries. Police are identifying the pilot as 34-year-old Travis Turner of Cameron, Wisconsin. Both local and federal investigators say they are looking into the crash.

Eau Claire is not waiting to deal with the so-called forever chemicals in its water. The city yesterday broke ground on a new plant that is designed to remove PFAS chemicals from the city’s water supply. The 20 million-dollar facility comes a year-and-a-half after the city closed about half of its wells because of high PFAS levels as there are growing worries about the chemicals. Constriction is expected to take about a year-and-a-half.

Wisconsin’s latest jobs report shows thousands of lost jobs last month. The unemployment report for July shows the private sector lost 85 hundred jobs last month. The total non-farm jobs number dropped 65-hundred jobs. Still, Wisconsin’s unemployment rate held steady at three percent, and the labor participation rate held steady at 65-and-a-half percent. That labor participation rate is better than the national rate, but is still lower than Wisconsin’s rate before COVID.

Land continues to get more valuable in Wisconsin. The state’s Department of Revenue released its latest Equalized Values Report. It shows the total value of all the land in the state is sitting at 907 billion-dollars, an increase of 75 billion from last year. Residential land continues to be the most valuable, worth just over 667 billion, followed by Wisconsin’s commercial properties. However, farmland and forest land saw the biggest jumps in their value. Both went up 11 percent last

Some of the hundreds of thousands of people who are expected to come to Green Bay for next spring’s NFL Draft could be sleeping in a camper at EAA. EAA yesterday said they are looking to open-up their facility to draft-goers. Managers say they have one thousand spots available for campers. Dick Knapinski says Detroit used a number of campgrounds when it hosted the draft in April of this year, and he said there’s no reason to think Green Bay

A texting-based program designed to help young Wisconsinites quit vaping is expanding. The Wisconsin Department of Health Services says it’ll now allow people aged 18-through-26 to use the Live Vape Free Program. This age group will benefit from two weeks of free nicotine replacement therapy if they medically qualify. The department says this therapy doubles the chances of quitting entirely. The texting program is still available for teens aged 13 to 17. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

 The Children’s Museum of Eau Claire is excited to announce a special event to celebrate and prepare children entering kindergarten. Join the museum for “Countdown to Kindergarten” on Thursday, August 22nd, from 4:30 PM to 6:30 PM at the Children’s Museum of Eau Claire. This FREE event promises a fun, hands-on introduction to school life for upcoming kindergartners and their families. Sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Eau Claire, Royal Credit Union, and Regis Court Dental Associates, “Countdown to Kindergarten”