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The Dunn County Board of Supervisors has approved a 2024 budget that will lower the county property taxes on a typical home by 26 percent.  “The Dunn County Board did a fantastic job of balancing the need to provide essential services to county taxpayers while keeping it affordable to live in Dunn County,” said Kristin Korpela, county manager, after the board voted 22-4 on Nov. 14 to approve the 2024 budget and set the tax levy.  For 2024, the owner

Eau Claire County was recognized by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources on America Recycle’s Day (November 15th) with a 2023 Recycling Excellence Award for the “Overall Program” category. This category “recognizes programs that are robust and constantly improving, demonstrating a commitment to advance the overall recycling/ diversion program.” The County’s recycling program prides itself on the collaborations with private partners and community organizations that allow our program to provide a specialty recycling program that goes beyond traditional recycling. These

ABOVE PHOTO: Richard Reeves, president of the American Institute for Boys and Men and a best-selling author, spoke Nov. 15 at UW-River Falls about the need to address the challenges boys and young men face in today’s society. Pat Deninger/UWRF photo. Improving outcomes for boys and men can occur simultaneously with continued and much-needed work to eliminate barriers that women face, a nationally renowned scholar and best-selling author told an audience at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls Wednesday.  In fact,

Waukesha is preparing to mark the two-year anniversary of the Christmas Parade attack.  The city will dedicate a memorial to the victims of the deadly 2021 incident next Tuesday.  The memorial on Main Street aims to represent the lives impacted by the tragedy.  Six people were killed and dozens more hurt when a man drove his SUV through the annual parade.  That man is now serving life behind bars. 

State officials say a hunter won’t be charged for shooting a mountain lion in western Wisconsin.  The mountain lion is a protected species in the state.  State Natural Resources officials say the bow hunter felt threatened by the mountain lion, also known as a cougar.  They say the hunter reported the shooting on Saturday over the state’s violation hotline.  The hunter was not injured.  The Buffalo County District Attorney’s office says it investigated the incident and decided not to press

Police in Glendale are thanking some local golfers for helping them capture a police chase suspect.  It happened Wednesday when an SUV allegedly stolen out of Minnesota crashed along the I-43 guardrail.  Four people got out of the vehicle and two of them ran onto the nearby Lincoln Park Golf Course.  One of the suspects tried to hide in a nearby port-a-potty on the course.  That’s when two golfers took matters into their own hands and tipped the port-a-potty over,

A Wisconsin man is recovering after a deer’s smashed through his windshield.  Robert Fleuchaus says he was driving on I-43 last week doing about 75 miles an hour when the deer ran right into traffic.  The deer’s body split in half after being hit by Fleuchaus and a box truck driving beside him.  Fleuchaus says all the windows shattered and the deer’s head just landed on the seat next to him.  He says he’s glad no one was in the

Eau Claire residents can expect to see an increase in their monthly water bills, beginning next year.  The city council this week approved an eight percent increase in water usage bills.  City officials blamed the increase on rising costs for electricity, chemicals and transportation in providing water for residents.  The city is also building a 20-million dollar treatment facility for PFAs — the so-called forever chemicals that are hazardous to people’s health.  The city is looking for grants that can

The first general homeless shelter in Dunn County has opened for business — and shelter officials say they’re working through a waitlist for people who want to stay at the shelter.  The Cairn House in Menomonie has taken several years to finance and build at a total cost one-and-a-half million dollars.  People can stay at the shelter for up to eight weeks or longer, depending on circumstances.  The shelter has three case managers on staff to help residents find more

Eau Claire County is discontinuing the system it uses to alert residents to emergencies.  Known as RAVE, county officials say they’re shutting down the system after the first of the year because of its cost, which totals almost 36-hundred dollars a year. Plus, they say fewer people have been signing up for RAVE They say they’ll alert residents by working with state emergency management officials to alert residents of any emergencies in an area, such as a train derailment or