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Another person died at Devil’s Lake State Park this week.  The Sauk County Sheriff’s Office says someone was riding down a hill in the park Wednesday night when there was a ‘malfunction.’  That threw the cyclist into the road. Deputies say they found the person dead in the road a little while later.  The sheriff’s office is not identifying the cyclist, or even saying if the victim is a man or a woman.  Investigators say the person was not wearing

There is more union support for striking workers at Leinenkugel’s brewery in Chippewa Falls. Public workers union AFSCME and the local Wisconsin Allegiance for Retired Americans joined the Teamsters on the picket line yesterday. About 45 union workers at the brewery have been on strike for more than a month. They want a bigger pay raise and other concessions. On the other side of the negotiation table, Leinie’s says the offer they’ve made to the striking Teamsters is competitive and

Eau Claire County is looking for a grant to build a bike trail along McKinley Road. The county is applying for a Safe Routes to School grant. The idea is to create a bike path along McKinley from Highway 312 to River Prairie Drive. Planners say that will give kids at both the McKinley Charter School and Northwoods Elementary a safe way to get to and from school. The total cost of the new bike trail would be about 700-thousand

The Bucks will open the 2023-24 season at home, and fans hope they end the season with an NBA championship. The Bucks released the schedule for next season yesterday. Milwaukee opens the regular season October 26th at home against the 76ers, and ends the regular season in Orlando on April 14th. In between, the Bucks will play on Christmas Day, and will play on national TV 19 times. Tickets go on sale next month.

Folks to the north and west of Madison continue to see the worst of Wisconsin’s drought.  The latest drought report for Wisconsin shows things improved across the state over the past week.  It helped that Wisconsin saw a couple of days of soaking rains this week.  In Madison and Dane County the drought continues to be severe, but areas to the north and west are in an extreme drought.  As of this week, 78-percent of Wisconsin is seeing some kind

Mister Rodgers was all over trolley action in his neighborhood and now, our neighborhood welcomes the Chippewa River Trolley! Cardigans are optional. This new addition to the dynamic Eau Claire scene officially launches this weekend. Starting this Saturday, August 19 you can be on the tours at 1pm and 3pm.  So, what can you expect? Options! At launch, you will see a Signature Eau Claire Tour (a historic and modern day tour), as well as multiple Brewery Tours, Winery Tours, and a

The St. Croix County Emergency Communication Center received a call at about 10:48 p.m. on August 16, 2023, reporting a motor vehicle crash with injuries on USH 63, at 200th Ave., in the Town of Forest. Deputies arrived on scene and located a 2012 Nissan Versa which had been operated by Junior O. Carranza-Guerra, Age 22, from Clear Lake, WI. He had been traveling westbound on 200th Ave, and failed to stop for the stop sign on 200th Ave. He

“A big thank you to the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club for hosting this year’s show. And now planning for 2024 in Chippewa County moves into full gear.”  The 2023 Wisconsin Farm Technology Days show, the 69th in the show’s history, is successfully wrapped up, having welcomed over 30,000 people to the show on the grounds of the Badger Steam and Gas Engine Club July 18-20 in Baraboo.  “Farm Tech Days 2023 – Baraboo is in the books, and

We now know the name of the hiker that died this week at Devil’s Lake State Park.  The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says Jason Gillum or Fort Wayne, Indiana, died Tuesday afternoon when he fell from a bluff.  Investigators say he fell around 50 feet.  His death is being called an accident.

Wisconsin is seeing record job growth.  The Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development says last month the state improved on June’s record jobs, now at over three-million-seven-thousand.  Wisconsin also added 68-hundred new workers in July.  Wisconsin’s unemployment rate sits at two-point-six percent.