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Add another state to the map for Kwik Trip. The company yesterday opened its first store in South Dakota. The new store is in Brandon, in the southeast corner of South Dakota. Kwik Trip says it plans to open five more stores in South Dakota over the next several months. South Dakota now makes it six states to be home to either a Kwik Trip or a Kwik Star.

The city of Eau Claire is looking for somebody to design a new basketball court mural. Crews just finished resurfacing the Boyd Park basketball court, now they’re looking for someone to paint it. The East Side Hill Neighborhood group is asking local artists to paint the mural. Nothing is set in stone, the neighborhood group says they just want to see if there’s interest in some new art. Anyone who is interested is asked to reach out to the East

The University of Minnesota is introducing a new kind of apple to the world.  It has a crisp, juicy texture sort of like a Honeycrisp but with tropical overtones. The apple breeding program at U of M has been around for more than a century.  This is their 29th variety of apple MN33, and it will be available to consumers under the brand name Kudos in the next few years.  The program’s most famous apple, the Honeycrisp, was developed in

Sit. Stay. Gooooood boy! Now, FETCH the details about another year of a favorite local event. Scorch and T-Ri from Scorch and the Morning X are out of the cage and taking Paws for the Cause for a ride…with their heads out the window, ears blowing back, of course. Real Rock 929 The X is rockin’ it for the fur babies of the Chippewa Valley as Scorch’s Paws for the Cause is still going strong in the Chippewa Valley and

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is giving the Eau Claire County Sheriff’s Office 350-thousand dollars to address opioid usage. The money will be used for medication-assisted treatment training, programs for keeping opioid users out of jail, and community drug disposal programs. Five other agencies across Wisconsin are also getting get financial support from the grant.

Today, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission approved Xcel Energy’s expansion of the Sherco Solar project, which will soon become one of the biggest solar projects in the country. The project is a key element of Xcel Energy’s clean energy transition and will help the company triple the amount of solar on its Upper Midwest system by 2028. The unanimous vote paves the way for 710 megawatts of solar generation near the existing Sherco coal plant in Becker, Minnesota, by adding

The Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) confirms that a Rock County deer farm has tested positive for chronic wasting disease (CWD). The result was confirmed by the National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, Iowa. The positive result came from a 4-year-old white-tailed buck. The farm has been placed under quarantine, where it will remain while DATCP and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) veterinarians and staff conduct the epidemiological investigation. CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO.

The National Merit Scholarship Corporation announced the names of more than 16,000 Semifinalists in the 69th annual National Merit Scholarship Program. Peter Gingerich and Tyberius Kemmet from Memorial High School and William C. Hatcher from North High School are Semi-Finalists in the 2024 Competition for the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) awards. These academically talented high school seniors have an opportunity to continue in the competition for some 7,140 National Merit Scholarships worth nearly $28 million that will be offered

ABOVE PHOTO: UW-River Falls student Grace Johnson shows Copper, a dog she will help train to be an assistance animal, her open hand after feeding him a treat after Copper and other dogs were dropped off at UWRF Sept. 14. Johnson is one of 21 students who will work with 10 assistance dogs on campus as part of the new Falcon FETCH (Fostering Education Through Campus Hosting) program. Pat Deninger/UWRF photo. “As soon as I heard this was available, I was going

 Police in Eau Claire are warning that someone is calling and pretending to be them. Eau Claire’s Police Department took to social media yesterday to warn that someone is calling around and faking the number from Eau Claire’s Communication Center. They are telling people that they owe a fine, or else they’ll be going to jail. The scammers demand to be paid, often times with gift cards. The real police say they never do that, and say if you get