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Xcel energy says it’s starting work to make sure the riverbank at its dam in Dunn County doesn’t erode like the dam in Minnesota. Crews are focusing on the Menomonie Dam’s abutment. Xcel’s Tony Witkowski says the plan is to cover the entire bank of the river, upstream of the dam on the left side of the river, with new concrete. The project has been in the works for years, but it’s taken on a bit more urgency after the

Wisconsin’s DNR has set the deer quota for this year. The Department of Natural Resources yesterday said hunters will be able to take nearly 273 thousand deer, and another 245 thousand ‘ bonus antlerless’ deer this year. The DNR says Wisconsin’s County Deer Advisory Councils helped set the harvest numbers. Deer licenses are on sale through the state;s Go Wild app. Deer season begins in Wisconsin in September with archery season. Gun season in the state is set for November

More than 14-thousand absentee ballots are headed toward Madison residents by mail for the August Partisan Primary. Voters will only be able to vote for candidates in the party they select once they get their ballot. Absentee ballots envelopes must be sealed and signed by both a voter and a voter’s witness, and returned in time to be delivered for counting at a polling place. Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway says it isn’t too late to request a ballot online. In-person absentee

Fishing equipment is available to rent at no charge through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. The DNR says most pickup sites will have rods, reels, bobbers, and fishing line, along with other equipment. The department requests equipment be returned clean and ready to use again and is available on a first-come, first-serve basis.

 Wisconsin’s attorney general is joining a coalition asking that TurboTax services not be advertised as free. Attorney General Josh Kaul is joining 21 other attorneys general to ask the U-S Court of Appeals to reject an appeal filed by Intuit, the maker of TurboTax. Intuit is appealing a settlement of 141-million dollars reached in 2022. The company was also ordered to stop advertising its services as free, unless they are free to all consumers, by the FTC in 2023.  The

Six Wisconsin affordable housing developments are splitting 525-million dollars in state funding. It’s the largest amount housing investment given by the state in its history. The Wisconsin Housing and Economic Development Authority says beneficiaries include senior living, workforce housing, and rehabilitation developments. The two projects that got money from the first round of Vacancy-to-Vitality funding in January are currently underway.

There will be extra law enforcement on Wisconsin waters next week for Independence Day. The state Department of Natural Resources says wardens and law enforcement will participate in the national Operation Dry Water campaign. The DNR says crews will be looking for boat operators who are drinking, and educating people on proper life jacket use. Since Operation Dry Water began in 2009, almost seven-thousand impaired operators have been removed from waterways nationwide. The campaign runs from July fourth until the

ABOVE PHOTO: Campus Planner Michael Higgins, Sustainability Manager Kadi Wright, Xcel Energy’s Mike Plunkett and David Voss, Senior Facilities Officer Justin Utpadel, Chancellor Katherine Frank, State Rep. Clint Moses, Facilities Management Associate Director Zenon Smolarek and Engineering Specialist Josh Kohnke. For its collaboration and commitment to sustainability and energy efficiency in multiple campuswide initiatives in the last two decades, University of Wisconsin-Stout has received an Energy Efficiency Excellence Award from Focus on Energy, Wisconsin’s statewide energy efficiency and renewable resource program. UW-Stout, the only university

ABOVE PHOTO: From left, Trever Davern, Lisa Jevne and Emily Mettner, students in the Supply Chain Management program at Chippewa Valley Technical College, participated in a case competition at the University of St. Thomas recently. Their team took third place of six. This was the first competition CVTC has competed in of its kind, and the only two-year college in the competition. Lisa Jevne doesn’t love the spotlight. She’s not keen on speaking in front of a crowd. “I believe

Cheyenne Adriana Carter, 27 years of age, from St. Paul, MN has been arrested by the Wisconsin  State Patrol Eau Claire Post for operating a motor vehicle under the influence, 2nd offense, with  three children in the vehicle under the age of 16.   A Wisconsin State Patrol Trooper responded to a driving complaint and subsequently stopped a  vehicle on I94 EB near mile marker 7 for numerous lane deviations. The Trooper observed several  indicators of possible impairment when in contact