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School libraries in the Eau Claire Area District are getting more than 810-thousand dollars from the state.  Wisconsin Secretary of State Sarah Godlewski visited Northwoods Elementary school and Memorial High School before presenting the district with a check.  The money is coming from the Common School Fund.

A factory expansion in Jefferson County will bring a hundred new jobs.  Governor Tony Evers says the Nestle Purina PetCare Company will be expanding its Jefferson plant — a 195-million-dollar investment.  Once finished, the company says the factory’s production of wet food will increase.  The Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation is giving almost two-million dollars in tax credits over the next five years.  Nestle has had a Purina factory in Jefferson since 1910.

“Wisconsin’s dairy industry supports thousands of good paying jobs, drives our rural economies, and provides nutritious products around the world, and it is critical to our state that we get the response to this virus right,” U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) called on the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to take immediate action to contain the ongoing avian flu outbreak in dairy cattle. On Tuesday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that the virus has been found in

At the Tuesday, March 23, 2024 Legislative Session, the Eau Claire City Council voted to change the start time of its Public Hearing meetings. Starting in June, it will begin at 6 p.m. Starting one hour earlier than before is intended to increase and encourage resident participation in public hearings, with fewer meetings running late into evening. YOU CAN CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE.

Wisconsin’s attorney general is on the list of AGs who are pressing Congress to protect IVF treatment. Attorney General Josh Kaul yesterday signed-on with AGs from 20 other states in a letter to Congress asking them to act. Kaul says a federal law is necessary after an Alabama court said frozen embryos fall under that state’ abortion law. Kaul and the others say the federal government needs to step-in and clarify that parents have access to fertilization treatments.

It’s a not guilty plea from the man accused of killing a woman and leaving her body in a suitcase in Chippewa County. Jose Dominguez-Garcia was in court yesterday to enter his plea. He’s accused of killing his pregnant girlfriend back in 2020, and leaving her body in a suitcase at an abandoned farmhouse along County Road T, just north of Eau Claire. Dominguez-Garcia’s trial is scheduled, for now, to begin next March.

It looks like there will be layoffs coming when Jennie-O closes its plant in western Wisconsin. The company announced plans back in January to end turkey harvesting at the plant in Barron. This month, Jennie-O said 38 people will lose their jobs. The company says everyone who works in harvesting at the plant will have an opportunity to apply for other jobs. If they don’t get one of those jobs, they will be let go.

Wisconsin is getting another round of federal money for clean energy. Governor Evers yesterday said the state’s Public Service Commission is getting just under eight million-dollars from the Biden Administration’s Energy Innovation Grant Program. The money is earmarked for renewable energy and energy storage, energy efficiency, and comprehensive energy planning. The PSC is not saying just which projects will do what, or when the money will be spent.

High school athletes in Wisconsin will not get paid, at least not yet. The WIAA, the group that manages high school sports in Wisconsin, yesterday rejected a name, image, and likeness proposal. WIAA officials say NIL is coming to high school sports, and suggested the proposal as a way to stay ahead of any new laws or lawsuits. But local athletic directors say the proposed rules didn’t work, and said there were just too many unanswered questions.  But both the

Milwaukee’s Public Market is the best in the country. USA Today put the market in Milwaukee’s Historic Third Ward atop its 10 Best public market list. Detroit’s Eastern Market, and Philadelphia’s Reading Terminal Market were ranked second and third. Voters nominated public markets from across the country, and USA Today said a panel of experts then put together the Top 10 list.