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The national County Health Rankings, a set of health data released each spring, shows how Eau Claire County compares to the state, nation, and peer counties on many health issues. The 2024 data, released today, indicates Eau Claire County’s recent areas of strength, as well as opportunities to improve – including factors like alcohol and drug misuse, premature deaths, access to health care, civic engagement, and more. County Health Rankings data are released each year by the Robert Wood Johnson

For the third time this month, a $100,000 top prize-winning All or Nothing ticket was sold in Wisconsin. The winning ticket matched 11 of 11 numbers for the March 18, 2024, Evening drawing. The winning ticket was sold at Kwik Trip on 6 W. Hidden Trail in Elkhorn. The winning numbers were 1-2-5-7-8-13-15-16-19-21-22.

Eau Claire and the Chippewa Valley are looking at more than just a dusting of snow tomorrow and into Friday. Whether you have been waiting for it all Winter or think it’s too late now that we are in Spring, it’s headed our way! Forecasters say the overnight snow could be plowable. That means between two and five inches of snow for the entire area, with some spots seeing as much as eight inches. The snow will be the first

Two Rivers is digging deep to cover the cost of the search for three-year-old Elijah Vue. Elijah Vue, 3, is still missing.(Two Rivers Police Department) The city council on Monday approved a plan to add 336 thousand-dollars to the city budget to pay for the search. Police and volunteers have been looking for over a month for the little boy. Meanwhile, a years-old arrest in Outagamie County may shed some light on the disappearance of that missing Manitowoc County boy.

Police in Stevens Point say two suspects are in custody and two suspects are at large in connection to last week’s beating death of a homeless man. Investigators say the man was living in his truck when he was found dead in a city parking lot last Friday. Officers say it looks like four young men beat him to death, but Portage County prosecutors are not saying much else. One of the suspects who was arrested on Monday is already

A judge in Rock County wants a doctor to see if the suspect in the stabbing death of an eight-year-old girl is competent enough to stand trial. The judge yesterday ordered a competency hearing for 20-year-old Dayveon Lathrop. He’s accused of stabbing his adopted sister to death, then hiding her body in a storage tote earlier this month. Lathrop’s attorney is the one who requested the exam. There’s no word when doctors will be able to see him, or just

Republican lawmakers at the Wisconsin Capitol say it is worrying that neither the state nor the UW have a plan to know who is working where or when. The heads of the state’s Legislative Audit Commission yesterday pressed both the Department of Administration and the University of Wisconsin for answers about two audits that show a lot of people are working from home, and a lot of state-owned buildings are mostly empty. Senator Eric Wimberger said the state and the

The Wisconsin Supreme Court is going to decide if the number of people who’ve been declared incompetent to vote is a public record. The court yesterday said it will hear arguments in the case from Walworth County. The Wisconsin Voters Alliance sued Walworth County for the number of people who’ve been declared incompetent, saying the numbers don’t add-up with Wisconsin’s voter rolls. An appeals court says the public should see the numbers, but Walworth County’s register in probate is now

Over the counter birth control is covered under Wisconsin insurance. BadgerCare Plus members will be able to pick up Opill without paying out of pocket. Opill is the first birth control medication approved by the FDA for use without a prescription or discussion with a doctor. It’ll be in pharmacies starting today and as available in the next few weeks.

Wisconsin is giving out almost four-million dollars in grants to help employers train thousands of employees. The state Department of Workforce Development says the money will go toward training in construction, health care, manufacturing, and transportation. With the funding, 22 employers will train more than two-thousand workers. The Wisconsin Fast Forward Program has given more than 49-million toward training 34-thousand workers.