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U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) announced $23 million in grant funding is available to support dairy businesses’ processing capacity expansion, on-farm improvements, and technical assistance services under the Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives grant program. Senator Baldwin authored the bill creating the Dairy Business Innovation Initiative program, successfully shepherding its passage in 2018 and securing funding in the subsequent years since. “Wisconsin’s dairy businesses are key economic drivers of many of our rural communities…”-Baldwin The Dairy Business Innovation Initiatives provide valuable technical assistance and subgrants to

A $50,000 Powerball winning ticket was sold at Mega Holiday on 6126 Texaco Dr. in Eau Claire for the Monday, June 12th drawing. The winning ticket matched four of five numbers (2-3-16-23-68) plus the Powerball (7). It is the second time in a week that a Mega Holiday location and a Powerball win are making news. On June 7th, a $50,000 Powerball winning ticket was purchased at a Mega Holiday in Altoona. Five big Powerball winning tickets have been sold in Wisconsin in June so far including: June 12th at Mega Holiday in Eau

Photo: Amanda MacGlashin, 17, of Fall Creek, who has 18 college credits from Chippewa Valley Technical College, is awarded a $1,000 Badger State Sheriff’s Association Scholarship in the name of former Eau Claire Sheriff Ron Cramer, who died in 2022. Looking back, Amanda MacGlashin believes she and her friends were targets of human traffickers while hanging out at the mall. “I remember a couple of times where we’ve had some questionable people come up to us and ask us to

 Crews are cleaning-up after a weekend train derailment in Howard, but no one has yet said just what happened. The Brown County Sheriff’s Office is part of the investigation, but there are very few answers. Howard’s public works director says the train went off the tracks Sunday, but he didn’t have any more information. There are no reports of any hazardous materials on board. The derailment happened near the same spot where a train stalled-out back in April. That was

Milwaukee’s RNC boss is promising a bigger and better convention. Elise Dickens sat down for her first interviews yesterday, after being named RNC CEO. She said one of her first tasks is to get a team together to plan for the convention in July of next year. Dickens says it’s been eight years since Republicans met in-person, and she expects the Milwaukee convention to meet expectations. Milwaukee won the Republican National Convention after Democrats picked the city for 2020, but

An Eau Claire County man is heading to prison as part of a sex trafficking case. A judge yesterday sentenced Mark Scoville Senior to six years in prison for a slew of charges related to a string of crimes from 2021. Six women accused Scoville of sexually assaulting them — some of the women said he drugged them first. Scoville told the judge yesterday that drugs were to blame for his bad actions. After his prison time, Scoville will be

The meat packing plant in Abbotsford is looking at more than a quarter-million dollars in safety fines after its latest inspection. OSHA yesterday ordered 277 thousand-dollars in fines for the Abbyland Foods after one worker lost a finger tip, and another had his hand crushed. This is not the first time OSHA has fined Abbyland, and OSHA accused plant managers of continuing ‘to ignore its legal responsibility to ensure a safe and healthful work environment.’

Wisconsin’s sweeping changes for local governments and local schools will begin their quick march to the governor’s desk today. Lawmakers have a series of hearings scheduled on the new shared revenue plan, a proposal to overhaul how kids are taught reading, and a new plan to spend a billion-dollars more on public schools in the state. All are being fast-tracked for votes in the Assembly. Lawmakers are moving quickly because they are facing a July 4th deadline to deliver a