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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

Nearly a dozen people are displaced after a fire in Chippewa County. The details, as released by Sheriff Hakes, are below: On Tuesday, 02/04/25, at approximately 2:57 AM, the Chippewa County Sheriff’s Office received a report of a structure fire at a 12-unit apartment complex located at 8984 Hwy 124 in the Township of Eagle Point. Upon arrival, deputies found the building partially on fire. Deputies and tenants were able to evacuate all occupants of the building. Two patients were

The suspect in the homicide at Eau Claire’s Do Dodge Inn is being sent to an inpatient treatment facility.  On Tuesday, a competency hearing was held for Anthony Jackson, who is being charged with intentional homicide and attempted intentional homicide for the December stabbing of 31-year-old Alex Graff.  A judge ordered for Jackson to be sent to an inpatient treatment facility as soon as DHS and jail thinks it’s “appropriate and possible. Another competency hearing is scheduled once an inpatient

A Viroqua man is accused of illegally shipping guns to buyers in Saudi Arabia.  Sixty-year-old Mark Buschman is facing several federal firearms and conspiracy charges.  Investigators say Buschman sold nearly 400-thousand-dollars-worth of guns and gun parts to the overseas purchasers over the last five years.  Many of the firearm components were concealed inside household items like toasters, space heaters, and landscaping power tools when they were shipped, according to officials.

Governor Tony Evers is sharing plans to expand access to clean drinking water around Wisconsin.  His plans are part of his upcoming 2025-27 Executive Budget, which will be introduced on February 18th.  Earlier this week, he announced that over 145 million-dollars will be invested in addressing PFAS contamination across the state.  The plan involves creating a PFAS Community Grant program to help municipal drinking water systems with testing for PFAS and eliminate them from drinking water.  Two-million-dollars in emergency resources