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Eau Claire Parks, Recreation & Forestry is excited to announce that Roosevelt, Pinehurst, Boyd, and Putnam Heights warming shelters and outdoor skating rinks will be open starting Saturday, January 20, 2024. Outdoor rinks can be used when the warming shelter is not staffed. Lights are on a timer from 4:00pm-10:00pm. CLICK HERE FOR UPDATED INFORMATION ON THE OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES.

More people used Eau Claire Transit last year than any year since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Transit Manager Ty Fadness says about 661-thousand passengers used the Transit in 2023, which is more than 200-thousand more than in 2020. That’s also an increase of 60-thousand from last year. In the fall, a new Eau Claire Transit Center is set to open.

During a cold snap like this maybe you are daydreaming of a vacation or planning to take the family somewhere warm for Spring Break.  For this week’s Friday Feel Good we pack the bags and hop on board a story that will have you smiling. When Jake Levine and Kelly Levine took their five-month-old daughter Romey on vacation to Mexico for the new year, the first-time parents said they weren’t sure how the trip would unfold.  But they were surprised by

The Markesan Police Department is investigating a retail theft that occurred at Piggly Wiggly and Citgo in Markesan on the afternoon of 01/18/2024. The suspects were in a black Nissan Titan crew cab with no cover or cap. The suspects entered the above businesses and stole a significant amount of liquor. This was accomplished by one of the suspects distracting the clerk and the other removing the liquor from packaging, placing in a bag and leaving the store. Anyone with

Governor Evers made a stop in Eau Claire yesterday to check-in on some grant recipients. The governor visited with the folks at the Black Kettle Tea Shoppe on Barstow Street. The Tea Shoppe was one of hundreds of businesses to get a Main Street Bounceback grant. The governor also stopped-by the 123 Look At Me Learning Center which got a 300 thousand-dollar state grant for child care. The governor says state grant money made the difference for both local businesses.

None of Wisconsin’s Republican congressmen voted for the latest deal to keep the federal government open. All six of the state’s Republicans yesterday voted against the continuing resolution. That resolution will keep the federal government funded through March. Congressman Mike Gallagher says kicking the can down the road doesn’t do much good. In fact, he says it only rewards bad behavior. Wisconsin’s two Democratic members of Congress voted for the plan.

The young man who police claim hit a 19-year-old in Fond du Lac on New Year’s Eve after she crashed her car is looking at 15-years in prison if convicted. Prosecutors yesterday filed formal charges against 19-year-old Jatziel Encarnacion. Investigators say he reportedly was drunk when he left a party early on New Year’s Eve morning, and hit a young woman who’d been tossed out of her car because of a separate crash. The D.A. is not charging Encarnacion with

The second young woman in the Slender Man case is, once again, asking to go home. Morgan Geyser’s attorneys this week asked a Waukesha County judge to allow her to leave the state mental hospital where she’s been for the past five years. Geyser asked the same thing last year, and the year before that. Her lawyers say Geyser has been working on her mental health and is no longer a danger. She was just 12-years-old back in 2014 when

The Waukesha Christmas Parade killer is heading back to court. A judge this week scheduled Darrell Brook’s Milwaukee County trial for May. Brooks is currently serving six life sentences for killing six people at the Waukesha Christmas Parade back in 2021. His Milwaukee trial is for charges stemming from reportedly running over his child’s mother with the same SUV he used in the Christmas Parade attack. 

There’s a pitch at the Wisconsin Capitol to pause the doe hunt in northern Wisconsin. A group of Republican lawmakers say the state needs to do something to help the herd rebound. Hunters say there are far fewer deer in the Northern Forest Hunting Zone than just a few years ago. The DNR says deer harvest numbers for the northern third of the state were down 15 percent compared to last year. The plan at the Capitol would ban hunters