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A pair of Wisconsin resorts made the best-of list for Travel + Leisure magazine. The magazine is out with its list of favorite travel destinations, and the Sundara Inn & Spa in Wisconsin Dells topped the list for destination spa. Sundara is the only one of the 15 spas on Travel + Leisure’s list that is in the Midwest. Kohler’s American Club Resort Hotel also made the best-of list. It is ranked eighth on the magazine’s 10 favorite resorts in

More than 18-thousand-500 riders used a new Amtrak train with stops in Wisconsin in its first full month of operation. The Borealis train runs both ways from Chicago to the Twin Cities, and stops in Milwaukee. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation says it’s the first service expansion in longer than two decades. One train leaves Saint-Paul at midday, and another leaves Chicago in the late morning.

Crisis response readiness trainings will be held at schools across Wisconsin over the summer. The state Office of School Safety will hold the trainings about a standardized, action-based, and practical response to emergencies in schools. These emergencies include fires, natural disasters, and threats or acts of violence. Trainings will be one day only and have both lectures and hands-on scenario practice.  

Eau Claire, WI will host the 17th annual Kubb National Championships this weekend, July 12 – 14th, at the Eau Claire Soccer Park. This year’s event boasts teams and players from over 25+ different states and Belgium. The event is the 2nd largest Kubb tournament in the world, with an expansion from 128 teams in 2023 to 144 teams this year. Registration for this year’s tournament field filled up in 40 hours. The games begin on Friday with The U.S

ABOVE PHOTO: Mack Klafter works on the nVent robotic hinge assembly machine. It was the moment of truth for a team of University of Wisconsin-Stout engineering majors. As peers, professors and industry representatives gathered around, they engaged the manufacturing prototype they had created. In about 10 seconds, their cube-shaped device housing numerous moving parts and about 250 components perfectly achieved what they had been working on for nine months: pneumatically feeding a hinge to the precise spot where Phillips-head drivers

Police in Abbotsford say they are looking for answers about last Friday’s killing that left two children dead. Police yesterday said the suspect Victor Manuel Gomez Acosta stabbed a woman and stabbed himself, and stabbed two children to death. There aren’t any specifics, however, as to just who the children were, how they knew Gomez Acosta, or what led-up to the killing. Gomez Acosta was taken to the Marshfield Medical Center for treatment  because of his self-inflicted stab wounds. Prosecutors

There is a new challenge to Eau Claire Schools’ gender policy. The Liberty Justice Center yesterday filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the justices to weigh-in on the school’s policy of keeping gender changes at school secret. The request comes after a federal judge dismissed the first challenge to the policy. The Liberty Justice Center says school districts who do this “are treating parents’ constitutional rights as negotiable rather than essential.” Showing you different sides so you

More families in Wisconsin may qualify for free and reduced school lunches this year. The state’s Department of Public Instruction yesterday released the new income guidelines for the coming school year. A family of four can make up to 40-thousand-560 dollars and qualify for free lunches. That’s up about 15-hundred dollars from last year. Families can make up to 57-thousand-720 dollars and qualify for reduced-price lunches. That too is up, over two thousand-dollars, from last year. DPI is not saying

Chippewa Valley Airport managers are open to SkyWest’s return. The airport is in the middle of choosing a new air carrier. Both SkyWest, which served the Chippewa Valley til 2022, and Sun Country, which currently serves the airport, are bidding for the job. SkyWest is promising daily flights to Chicago’s O’Hare Airport, while Sun County is promising similar service to what they currently offer, which is three flights a week to the Minneapolis-St. Paul, and two flights a week to

UW-Madison’s chancellor is going to make more than a million-dollars next year. University regents yesterday approved raises for eight of the UW’s 13 chancellors. UW-Madison Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin is getting a 10 percent raise for next year, which will bring her base salary up to 892 thousand-dollars. She is then in line for a 150 thousand-dollar retention bonus next year. That will push her paycheck to just over a million-dollars. Mnookin will then get 50 thousand-dollar retention bonuses in 2026,