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“Alzheimer’s can be a horrifying experience for those affected and the families and friends supporting them…”-Marie Schneider, human resource manager, The Alzheimer’s Association Wisconsin Chapter recently announced that La Crosse-based WalzCraft has signed on as the presenting sponsor for the 2023 Walk to End Alzheimer’s® in La Crosse, which will be held on September 16, 2023 at Riverside Park. “WalzCraft is proud to support the Walk to End Alzheimer’s and all the families who are on this devastating journey,” said

 Eau Claire Police are clearing two officers involved in a shooting from last fall. The city’s police department yesterday said the officers actions were ‘appropriate, necessary, and compliant’ with police procedures. The two officers shot and wounded a man after he pointed a gun at them following a 911 call last September. The man with the gun survived the shooting, and the officers were not hurt. Eau Claire County’s D.A. had already cleared the officers of any potential charges in

It is the latest sign of just how many people paid attention to Wisconsin’s race for the Supreme Court. The state’s Elections Commission yesterday said turnout for Tuesday Election Day was nearly 40 percent. Officially 39-point-34 percent of voters cast a ballot in this week’s election. That’s a record for a spring election that was not held at the same time as a presidential primary, as was the case back in 2019. Unofficial results say just over one-point-eight million people voted

UW-Eau Claire students turned-out more than anyone else in Tuesday’s election. The city clerk’s office says Ward 20, which includes most of campus, was the busiest ward in the entire city. Unofficial results show there were 883 votes cast in Ward 20, with about 87 percent of them voting for Janet Protasiewicz for Supreme Court. Last spring just 76 people voted in Ward 20. There were 158 votes from the UW-Eau Claire ward in the supreme court election back in

The University of Wisconsin’s president is defending the recent tuition hike as part of the ‘war for talent.’ President Jay Rothman this week said Wisconsin needs to produce more engineers, nurses, teachers, data scientists, and others at UW Schools, and he says those schools need the money to educate those students. UW Regents last week okayed a five percent tuition increase for next year, with almost all of it going to teacher raises. Rothman says the UW System continues to be affordable, even

Governor Evers has signed the law to keep the UW Merit Scholarship going. The scholarship, which is worth five thousand-dollars to incoming freshmen with excellent grades, was supposed to end this year. Lawmakers last month unanimously voted to make the scholarship permanent, and yesterday the governor signed it into law. The governor says the Merit Scholarship is one way to keep Wisconsin’s best and brightest in Wisconsin.

Republicans now have a supermajority in the Wisconsin Senate.  Republican Representative Dan Knodl  beat out Democratic businesswoman Jodi Habush  Sinykin in the Wisconsin Senate District Eight election Tuesday.  This gives Republicans a two-thirds majority in the senate, but overriding vetoes from the governor will still be difficult because they’re two seats shy of a supermajority in the Wisconsin House.

Senator Tammy Baldwin’s office released information about her recent efforts to secure funding for our state and water quality issues. “Every Wisconsinite needs to know that when they turn on their faucet, clean and safe water is coming out…” The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that Wisconsin will receive nearly $139 million in federal funding for essential drinking water infrastructure upgrades across the state funded by the Senator Tammy Baldwin-supported Bipartisan Infrastructure Law through the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund

“We’re trying to make it a little more realistic. They may be using force. They may be using communication skills. They’re not exactly sure what is coming.” Dalton Dey sat in a corner of the Chippewa Valley Technical College building in Menomonie, sobbing. He held a realistic-looking knife in his hands. Menomonie Police Officers Kayla Tisol, an investigator, and her partner, Kelly Pollock, a lieutenant, approached the young man. “Hi, my name is Kayla,” Tisol said. “I work with the

Above Photo: Emily Dzikowich, a dietetics major, does research in the microbiology lab at UW-Stout. She is one of more than 50 UW-Stout students presenting research at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research April 13-15 at UW-Eau Claire. Emily Dzikowich views slides on a microscope in the microbiology lab at UW-Stout.  Emily Dzikowich is looking forward to presenting her research about very small things, soil microbes, on a very large stage — the National Conference on Undergraduate Research. “I have