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The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) has identified a case of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial flock in Barron County. DATCP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) are working closely with animal health officials on a joint incident response. The affected premises will not move poultry products, and birds on the property will be depopulated to prevent the spread of the disease. Birds from the flock will not enter the food system.

We’re waiting for more  answers about a fire on Balsam Road last night. Fire crews from Eau Claire and a number of other fire departments battled the fire for more than an hour.  Investigators say the fire started at a home on Balsam Road about 9 p.m. last night and the investigation into the cause of the blaze continues.

A Milwaukee mom has agreed to a plea deal after neighbors found her kids walking down the street this summer, covered in blood and feces.  Prosecutors yesterday announced the plea deal with Katie Koch.  She was accused of keeping her kids in a house of horrors.  She pleaded guilty to two counts of chronic neglect of a child and one count of false imprisonment.  The DA’s office dismissed three other charges.  Police found the house of horrors after Koch’s seven-

Add Menomonie Schools to the list of school districts in Wisconsin that are asking voters for more money. The city’s school board this week okayed a referendum question for next spring. Menomonie Schools say they need another four million-dollars to make payroll and keep-up with day-to-day expenses. 

There’s another CWD case in western Wisconsin. The DNR yesterday confirmed a case in a wild deer that was shot in Jackson County.  The two-year-old buck was harvested in the town of Garfield, which is within ten miles of Trempealeau and Eau Claire Counties. The DNR says the confirmed case means Jackson County will have to restart its ban on feeding and baiting for three years.  Both Eau Claire and Trempealeau counties already have bans in place.

There will be a public memorial for Oshkosh’s police therapy dog later this month. The city’s police department yesterday said there will be a service for Magic on December 12th.  Magic had to be put down after doctors discovered cancer surrounding her heart last weekend.  She served with the Oshkosh PD for almost two years as a therapy and support dog.  Oshkosh Police are accepting donations in lieu of flowers to honor Magic’s time with the department.

Wisconsin’s former attorney general is running for the Supreme Court in 2025.  Brad Schimmel yesterday said he is running to put a check on the new liberal-majority court.  Schimmel will be running against liberal Justice Anne Walsh-Bradley in the spring election in 2026.  That race is expected to be just as contentious, and as expensive, as last spring’s election that flipped the Wisconsin Supreme Court.  Schimmel served as Wisconsin Attorney General for one term, he lost his re-election bid in

Democrats at the Wisconsin Capitol want to roll back the spending restrictions included in the state’s new shared revenue agreement. Lawmakers agreed in the state budget to share more state sales tax money with local governments. In exchange, Republicans put limits on how local governments can spend that money. Yesterday, a group of Democrats said those restrictions are hurting cities, towns, villages, and counties. The Democrats want to keep the money, end the spending restrictions, and allow local governments to

Unions in Wisconsin are asking the new liberal-majority Supreme Court to strike down Act 10.  A group of public sector unions, including the state’s teachers’ union, yesterday asked the court to overturn the 2011 state law that limited how teachers unions could bargain.  That law limited teachers’ unions to only getting raises, capped at the rate of inflation, in their contracts.  The union lawsuit says Act 10 created two separate categories of public employees, and violated the state’s equal protection

UPDATE 11.302023: On Thursday November 30th 2023, Jose E Dominguez-Garcia was brought from Missouri to Jail in Chippewa County, Wisconsin where he is detained on First-Degree Intentional Homicide charges from an incident reported in 2020. This is all the information to be released at this time. PREVIOUS DETAILS: A Reedsburg man accused of murdering his pregnant girlfriend in 2020, is now being held in a Missouri jail. Jose Dominguez-Garcia was charged in the death of Rosaly Chavarria Rodriguez in December