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“Congratulations to Rya and all of the other finalists for making Wisconsin history…” -WMC President & CEO Kurt R. Bauer.  WMC Foundation, in partnership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, on Flag Day announced Rya Mousavi, from Delong Middle School in Eau Claire as the first-ever Wisconsin Civics Bee champion. Rya competed against seven other finalists from around the state on stage on Friday, answering Civics trivia questions and presenting portions of her submitted essay. The competition, the first-of-its

The boutique damaged by an apartment collapse in Chippewa Falls is moving to a new location until repairs can be made. No one was living in the apartments above Iris Boutique, and no one was in the store when the collapse happened last week. Iris will stay on North Bridge Street, but occupy the space that used to be Lucy’s Eatery. The city inspector says the owner of the damaged building has sixty days to restore the site. The last

More than 32-point-eight million dollars in overpayments were recovered in fraudulent unemployment claims in Wisconsin last year. The state Department of Workforce Development says there were more than 23-hundred identity theft investigations, along with almost two-thousand worker misclassification tax audits. DWD Secretary Amy Pechacek says more than thirty programs have been launched or expanded in the past five years to help prevent unemployment insurance fraud. 

There’s some haze on the horizon in Wisconsin today, but it’s not from Canadian wildfires this time. For the past couple summers, the milky white color in the otherwise blue skies was blamed on Canadian wildfires. This time, smoke from the southern U-S and Mexico is drifting into the Midwest. The Environmental Protection Agency says air quality shouldn’t get any worse in Wisconsin.

In these dog days of Summer many families make memories through a vacation, maybe some pool trips, or the simple pleasure of a sprinkler and fresh strawberries. But in Menomonie, there will be a Summer memory that won’t soon be forgotten for a family whose dog accidentally fell down a dry well.  We stay in our state for this story as you may have seen this on your Facebook scroll. A firefighter is getting some online attention after going into a well to rescue

A Sergeant was taken into custody and an investigation continues in Clark County. It was on June 12th when the Taylor County Sheriff’s Office conducted a search warrant in the Village Of Spencer with the assistance of the Wisconsin Department Of Criminal Investigations ( DCI) and the Marathon County Sheriff’s Office. The search warrant was the result of an ongoing Internet Crimes Against Children ( ICAC) investigation. The suspect was identified as a Sergeant with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office.

A 19-year-old is dead after police say he drowned in a lake in far northwestern Wisconsin. The teenager, identified as Hunter Oneal, died Wednesday after he slipped below the water on Shell Lake. Police say he and his friends were on the beach, when Oneal went for a swim. At some point he started to struggle, he then went under the water and never came back up. Rescue crews pronounced him dead at the scene.

The ground has been broken for UW-Eau Claire’s new science building. University leaders yesterday turned-over the first shovel of dirt for the replacement for the Phillips Science Hall. The new building is on track to open in 2027. UW-Eau Claire is partnering with Mayo Clinic on the new science hall. Mayo donated 13 million-dollars for the project. The new building will be five stories tall and include a rooftop garden. It will be UW-Eau Claire’s largest academic building.

Menomonie is getting a new treatment center. Crews broke ground yesterday on Arbor Place’s new facility in Menomonie. The new center will be a place for people struggling with both substance abuse and mental health issues. The new center will be 15 thousand square-feet, and have 20 beds plus space for counseling and therapy, a child care space, and a playground. The hope is to open the new center next year.

Add UW-Oshkosh to the growing list of UW schools that are losing their branch campuses.  UW-O yesterday said it will close its Fox Cities campus in Menasha at the end of the next school year. University leaders say it’s a tough but necessary decision to try and pull Oshkosh out of an 18 million-dollar budget deficit.  There were just over 500 students at the Fox Cities campus back in the fall, down from over 16 hundred in 2018.  Reaction was